Dialogues with a Woodman
Set in trench in woodland. James digs and dreams of victory and daring do. Woodman talks of omelettes and frogs. The detritus of the furtive human accumulates. Birds sing.
Good Night Sweet Matilda!
A real farce, solidly based on fantasy. Three couples bed hop in a haunted country cottage with bewildered aphrodisiacal energy. No orgies, please. Simply keeping up with the Joneses!
The Spanish Patio
Domestic pathos. Cathy yearns for romance in her life and a Spanish Patio in her house. She can’t wait, leaps into the deep end and goes up in flames, so to speak. He husband is caught with the smoking pistol.
Dialogue with Screens
Bed-sitter solitude. Jane re-lives life’s agonies as she decoratesfolding screens with cut-outs of dead dreams. Maggoty and Budgylook on impassively as poor Jane’s life dwindles away by the minute.
Hearts at Night
Light bed-sitter comedy. End of an affair. James again knocked up nocturnally by Mrs Butcher and the Wicked Tongue. Spot the Nut. Daylight restores fantasy.
Some Good Advice
Grim family farce. Naturalistic. Set in bed-sit. A new husband, Martin, is severely lectured by his thrice-divorced Pa-in-law on the values of marriage.
Mistakes
Sexy comedy in lush surroundings. Bourgeoise sophisticates swap lovers and garbage. A poet drinks and makes his own mistakes. So, who’s right?
The Chief, The Lad and Mother Nut
Political satire set in Party HQ. (any Party). The Chief instructs the Lad on the delights of discreet corruption and politicians’ tripe-talk. Ma Nut wails. Watch for the double-cross!
Joyson
The eternal triangle. The Bosch-like trio of Lazarus, Ladysmith, and Joyson score each other. An abstract allegory of everyday love-down-the-plughole and endless discontent. Does anyone escape?
The Nomination
Orthodoxy versus mystery. Squares debate the arrival of the non-sequiter man, Henderson, in their midst.
The Man in the Welsh and English Lunatic Asylum
In England people are driven mad by the class system. In Wales they are driven mad by committee. But whether class or committee, all are victims.
Fairplay
The English class system at its worst, and all around us, even right now, as then. Ugh, ugh, ugh! as I write!
Tribute to a Worthy
Black comedy. Welsh TV slimies and loathsome Taff greedies plan to carve up Cardiff, a noble city.
Bosworth II
Bosworth II or a Dream Come True. A complete farce. Old time glasnost gone taffo-whacko! In Cardiff. Lost Muscovite plans reveal – a soviet invasion of the UK?! Or a Brit take over by the Angry Brigade? International red nuclear alert?!
Sailing to Avalon
Surreal wake. Unhappy reunion ends up as hilarious wake. Poet Sion gives up the ghost till his pals give him a push and off he goes, sailing to Avallon!
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Satire on inhuman values. Set in a gleaming sewage works, a fair representation of the world. Admiring Wolverines and Grim Hangers- On try to crush a Son of Man.
Saxon
Satire on the English Class System, set in John Bull’s Banqueting Halls. A British Export Drive crumbles on arrival. Mrs Bessie Bull, a Thatcherlike crone, keeps the proles in their place. All finally united in Burma-On-Sea. But the rot goes on and on and on….
Dialogues with Clovis
Two odd ball replica-reprobates talk of the World and of Man in the basement of Universal Charities under the Twin Towers. All ended with a whimper, didn’t it? Or did it? This play is for all of those who were lost there. And for all of those who weren’t.
Tear-drops of the Sea-Dragon
Set in a cottage by the sea. A ruined poet returns home to visit his ruined friends – Aneurin of the phantom daughters, the sea-wrack Johnny Conch, and the broken diamond merchant, the dumb Tabor.
Service for St Hal
Dai, the whisky preacher and his bizarre but human comrades, celebrate the death of their friend Hal. Though the Righteous persecute, Hal is duly canonized and they have a great day at the races.
Xanadu II
Charts breakdown of marriage. Mary-Rose in quest of the Perfect Penguin. Her husband praises Fergus’s poetry, hunts for the Primeval Rotifer, and ends up in the Home for the Bewildered. He is soon released. Who really was the loon?
Those Fields of Yellow
‘Those Fields of Yellow…’ tells the story of highly strung Patricia Shaw,who became convinced, under the influence of a Counsellor, that she had been the victim as a child of sexual abuse by her own father.
Greed or The Fat Kat
Black comedy on the UK’s present moral corruption and degradation. Norman Barratt, an original ‘Fat Cat’ decides to become Chief Exec and main manipulator of Sweetwater Inc, one of the main rip-off water utilities of the new age.
Between Storm Clouds
The action takes places in various locations in the small port town of Aberfach, West Wales, where conservationists and developers are at loggerheads. The Conservationists/Welsh Nationalists are led by Sylvan, with Tommy Tucker and Ben Cai, old inhabitants of the port.
Reflections of Genesistrine
Cosmic pollution. Apocalyptic rot. Last survivors battle against the Desmodus Mob, the cause of the catastrophe. Shades of the antique Minamata mercury disaster and the US 100 Mile High Reactor Insanity, not to mention Russia’s Chernobyl. All over? Yet? Don’t believe a word of it!
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