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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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