The Hanging of Richard Parker
SAILOR RICHARD PARKER could no longer stand ‘the daily cruelties and privations among the people of the King’s Fleet.’ In a time of war, he led a dangerous mutiny which threatened the very survival of England against Napoleon.
Owain Glyndwr
Owain Glyndwr.Wales’s national hero. Historical drama of Wales’s great national hero, Owain, who fought for and established an independent Wales, sadly only for a few years.
Base
‘They fly in T-bone stakes from Texas and fresh salad from New England.’ Thus I was informed by the American Press Officer in Berlin (American Sector) during the height of the Cold War.
The Drummer
The scene is set in the late sixties and early seventies in Wales. Numerous acts of defiance were committed by various groups against the Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon in ‘69.
Underdogs and Troublemakers
Lives of English radicals. Meet John Milton, Wat Tyler, Tom Paine, Dean Swift, Percy Shelley, among others, in this history/fantasy of the best of British ‘troublemakers.’
Celestial Rock Musical
Musical of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Stage play and musical. Based on Christian’s quest in The Pilgrim’s Progress. Updated to the present.
End of Kings
End of Kings. Historical, based on Cromwell’s Commonwealth. Wonderful story, including the execution of Charles I. Follows the life of writer John Bunyan of Bedford, parliamentarian, Independent, advocate of freedom of worhip, religious leader, superb writer of English.
Introducing Margaret Fell
Introducing Margaret Fell, first feminist of England. Margaret Fell (1614-1702) never ceased fighting the good fight. She took on tyrants and Kings and even faced the redoubtable Oliver Cromewell, Protector of England, executioner of royals.
Monuments
Monuments or The Backstabbers. Satire on academic poseurs and student phonies. Bloody-One-Eyed Morgan and Curly Vern V, battle against the Moronites until vanity is restored. Marvellous pace. Terrific persons.
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….
The Paradise Man
John (‘Paradise Lost’) Milton, poet of the only English Republic, Cromwellian enthusiast, advocate of freedom of worship, supporter of divorce, nearly lost his head on the Restoration of Charles II, saved at the last moment by fellow poet and royalist, Andrew Marvell.
Introducing Barbara Villiers
The most beautiful, intelligent, sensual and dangerous of King Charles II’s many mistresses. Renowned for her intelligence, charm, ferocity and luminous beauty, she shagged her way to the top with both male and female lovers, but remained ‘The Lady’ to the end. Princess Di? Forget it!
The Shortest Way with Dissenters
Daniel Defoe’s fiery satire against the Church of England made it a laughing stock. Defoe’s punishment – three days in the stocks in the centre of a London mob.
Mary Kingsley
One of those indomitable Victorian women who turned their world upside down. The only woman ever to explore the interior of theCongo and even had a mountain named after her. At the very height of the British Empire, she took up the cause of Freedom for the Africans even against Parliament and the Prime Minister himself.
Iolo
Everyone loves a charming rogue. Edward Williams, 1775-1835, known as Iolo Morganwg, was a sort of eighteenth century Raffles. His expertise, however, lay not in stealing jewels, but in creating them, and they were not the kind of gems found in jewellers’ shops. Iolo’s were found in bookshops and libraries, written in both Welsh and English.
The Women of Pilleth
Contemporary play, set after the battle of Pilleth during the Middle Ages. Welsh women in frenzy rend the dead of both sides. Samhain and the mid-summer Furies are blamed. A Celtic Bacchae glossed over in Welsh annals - any bloody body’s annals, come to that.
Bard
Based on the life and times of Twm O’r Nant, ‘the Welsh Shakespeare.’ Twm, the troubadour, the people’s champion, satirizes a corrupt and vicious establishment. The poet is helped by Yr Arglwydd Angau, the Lord Death. All in the 18th century. The first play to present Wales’s greatest satirist in English. Twm wrote only in Welsh, bless him.
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