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| Completed plays. | To contact Brian about reading or performing his scripts, please use the form here. |
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| Looking After the Pooters | Adapted as a one-woman monologue from the hilarious Victorian comic novel The Diary of a Nobody the play was a commission from Endpaper Theatre and was initially presented at the Maltings Arts Theatre, St. Albans. A tour of the play is planned for early 2012. |
| The Time Travelling Banana of Xanadu | A play for children. Nine year old Tom has a broken leg and is kept indoors during lunch break. Under the watchful eye of his least favourite teacher Miss Leicester, he is joined by his best friend Ben and classmates Izzy and Sadie. Sadie claims to have a very special piece of fruit in her lunchbox. A temporal comedy for the under 12s about paradoxes and wishful thinking. |
| Every Night Something | A play with occassional songs for the ukulele set in 1946.
Joe and Frank are a comedy double act who were in entertainment corps Stars in Battledress during the war. Now back on civvy street they are attempting to become stars in demob suits. |
| Sandra Timeslide | Two connected monologues about stalking. Set around the fan community of (fictional) US Sci-Fi TV Show Sandra Timeslide |
| Euphasia Superba | Set in January '06 during the week that ended with a whale stranded in the Thames. An office based comic tragedy running backwards from the Friday at work through to Monday night in the pub. |
| Lilies In Suez | Hampstead Theatre | |
| | Professional commission for the Heat and Light Company.
Family secrets and the Suez crisis clash in this generation spanning comic drama set in 1956 and 2006 |
| Every Night Something | Hampstead Theatre - Start Night | |
| | A rehearsed reading of a scene from the above work in progress, directed by Tom Wright. |
| Under New Instruction | Watford Palace Theatre | |
| | Rehearsed reading as part of the New Directions season, directed by Crispin Bonham-Carter. The play is a psychological ghost story about property and what people will do to obtain it. The play has been significantly rewritten since the reading thanks to a generous bursary from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. |
| Hive Mentality | Watford Palace Theatre | |
| | A one off "dayplay" commission. This short play was written on the day of the reading, inspired by a variety of articles from that morning's newspapers, as a companion to the reading of Under New Instruction |
| (and I feel fine) | Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester | |
| | Initially written for the young writers' programme at the Royal Court Theatre the play was further developed and received a rehearsed reading in Manchester. The play was long shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award, and shortlisted for the Imprint festival at the Royal Court theatre. "The best opening scene in a play by a young writer I have ever read." - Richard Wilson |
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Brian is an experienced playwright who has been writing for a number of years. He is currently Endpaper Theatre's writer-in-residence and is also a regular contributor to the fortnightly podcast An Occasional Theme. If you are interested in these or would like to find out about any works that are currently in progress, please get in contact.
