"MURDER!", SHE SHED
There's digging going on at the allotments. But it ain't to plant veg.
Come and meet the allotmenteers Judy, who's a big writer - or so she says. And Poppy who sells houses. And Bev- a big theatre star who used to fill them. And then there's Mark, Judy's brother, who's going to be a great stand-up comedian. Or so a tree in the park told him. Question is if they are all so succesful - why are they living on the allotment in sheds? And who's the figure from the past who's about turn up and upset their world?
PLYMOUTH-PLYMOUTH: SO GOOD THEY NAMED IT TWICE is the second of three plays based around the four hundred commemorations of the Mayflower voyage. It takes you on an imaginary trip around the Plymouth Sound. And towards an uncertain future in a "new world" inhabited by savages - or so you have heard tell. You’re also about to spend 66 days below decks—in darkness. In the company of total strangers. What's it going to be like? And what awaits you?
Brave individuals fleeing religious persecution? Or a bunch of misfits flung together in one boat. Hollywood type hype or something less glossy? ‘SO GOOD THEY NAMED IT TWICE’ takes a peek beneath the fluff and the guff and all the other stuff which has- like so many barnacles- accrued around the “Mayflower story” And its passengers. And the people whose lives they were about to change forever.
HOE-DOWN, first of three plays based around the 1620-2020 theme, was performed as part of the Plymouth Fringe Festival 2016
The setting is the Hoe, 2020. Miles, a city council Street Operative, comes across a figure asleep on a bench. A party animal Bacardi Breezer out for the count. It turns out to be a little more mysterious and complicated than that - by some four hundred years' worth. And there's a life to be saved - or not. Does Miles interfere with the course of history or change it? And in whose interest?
Time - and the games we play with it - are at the core of the play