The Messiah of Bossenden Wood
The recently arrived Cornishman was completety mad of course - “Squire Thompson, Count Rostopchein Rothchild, Sir William Percy Honeywood Courtenay, Earl of Devon, Knight of Malta, King of Jerusalem, the Messiah”
Mutiny on the Bounty
A two-hour, two-part, retelling of the entire story, from beginning to end, with many new and startling interpretations of the dramatic events.
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.
A Monstrous Regiment
Lovely monologue. Mad monk defines love. Anti-feminist jerk-off with impotence in the wings. Chapel bells toll at the end.
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.
Waiting Room
Madame Gaye flips through her 1,323 lovers. Her Waster masturbates. Her husband humps his own coffin. Madame exits to the Blue Danube. A void has been filled.
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.
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?
Sheer Agony
Sheer Agony or Bamai and his Maggots. Classic satire on human turpitude. The loathsome worm Bamai, assisted by the forces of Boredom, Apathy, Mediocrity, Arrogance and Ignorance, attempts to metricate Miss Foot of Maiden Castle.
The Nomination
Orthodoxy versus mystery. Squares debate the arrival of the non-sequiter man, Henderson, in their midst.
Cast of Thousands or the Invisible Marble
Surreal pantomime. Ophelia, Hitler (played by Jones), Boudicea, the Greek Testiclees and a Gorilla discuss history and the place of the invisible marble in the universe.
Journey to the Blessed Isle of Yellow Boots
Fantasy-farce-satire on England’s loopy ship of state. Donna-Isabellade-Pompadour-A-Go-Go and her pathetic Tory Admiral on a galleon. An odd odyssey.
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!
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.
Tribute to a Worthy
Black comedy. Welsh TV slimies and loathsome Taff greedies plan to carve up Cardiff, a noble city.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Backlash
Backlash or the Crucifiction of Black Antag. Satire-farce-fanatsy. Conservatives in conflict with antagonistic boy scouts, weird hair-does, sometimes hellish costumes on a journey to Decency or the World I Inhabit.
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.
Better Still the Night
Allegory of war. Three deserters hole up in a ruined castle. They are haunted by spectres of their own violence. Weird subterranean troglodytes emerge from the vaults to purge them of death, especially the ‘timor mortis conturbat me’ bit. All ends in a bloody mess, hardly surprising, being human.
Watch for the Drowned man
Set on Welsh Hill farms. Captain Owen, Squinting Howell and friends try to survive land-greed and gold-fever. Rape, madness, laughter and corpses: a typical Welsh mix, with a fantastic Last Supper at the end.
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.
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!
For Dreamers Only
Faded hippy Dan finds solace in his ancient sixties Wurlitzer juke box. But out of nostalgia rises a Lady called Luck, involving ‘angels unawares’ and overseas bequests, so that Dan is able to strum at the end, ‘Let your love flow on with the smallest of dreams…’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
147 Babylon Gardens
The Hippy dream and the Manson nightmare surface in an English setting. After the Apocalypse, Foul Ushers and White Attendants set up a ‘Long Grey Period’ known as ‘the Seventies, eighties, nineties, and beyond…
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!
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.
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