JUBILATE!

Following my recent success at the Henley Festival (click here for reviews), I will be performing my one-woman play, Jubilate!, at two further venues:

Southwark Playhouse on
Sunday September 14th at 8 p.m.
 
Box Office: 0870 060 1761
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Rosemary Branch Theatre
Thursday October 16th and Friday October 17th
 
Box Office: 020 7704 6665
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Everyone knows someone who thinks they know best. In Jubilate! that someone is Anna, vicar's wife and radio personality. She has her own life sorted out - apparently - and now thinks it'd be a good idea to sort out everyone else's......oh dear.

THE COMEDY PROJECT

In March 2008 I contributed as writer and performer to the new season of The Comedy Project (www.comedyproject.co.uk) at the Soho Theatre. My new play Drastic Plastic was showcased on Wednesday March 19th.

Daffodil has drastic plastic surgery to reclaim the years.
Vic hopes bigger breasts will win back gormless Gavin.
"Change your body, change your life" - isn't that right, girls???

Click on the image below
for a short writing c.v.
(1-page PDF)

Other writing for The Comedy Project has included:

• Powercut - a short play for theatre about marriage, cruelty and reality TV;
• Radio 24 (co-written with David Upsher) - 24 hours of talk radio in 24 minutes.

Carolyn Pertwee and I have written a new play, Between Friends, based on an original idea of Carolyn's.  The play was showcased to much acclaim by Actors & Writers London in March 2008. Between Friends will be playing at the OSO in Barnes for one week from 10th November 2008, with a view to transferring to a central London venue. 

My one-woman show, Jubilate!, enjoyed a very successful run at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (where it was performed under the title Bruised Blueberries).

Tim Pigott-Smith and Stephanie Jacob gave a rehearsed reading of my 2001 play Just for You to an invited audience at The Actors' Centre, Covent Garden following which Catherine Bailey Productions submitted it to the BBC.

Just for You is a one-hour-long two-hander in which the actor and actress are required to play several roles and to age from 10 to 84. It deals with omelettes, incest, facelifts and fairytales - in short the awfulness and absurdity which lurk behind a conventional family façade.

Co-writer of The Still Born directed by Lindsay Posner at Soho Poly 1986

Co-writer of Places to Crash directed by Peter Birch at Grace Theatre 1985

I wrote all the material (character-based) for my cabaret stand-up sets in the 1990s.  See my acting page for further details.