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Don Jon in Barcelona
“Ladies and gents, welcome to Barcelona’s sexiest bar crawl. I want you to turn to the nearest member of the opposite sex and tell them the filthiest thing you’ve ever done.
Go on, be honest. Or make something up.“
La Rambla, Barcelona, summer 2015. Club rep Jon is sure he met the love of his life on a bar crawl last night – the only problem is he can’t remember anything that happened after that. Don Jon in Barcelona is a one man play performed by a woman, about the awkward relationship between seduction, masculinity and consent.
Previously: rehearsed reading at Cambridge Junction Theatre, 27th April 2025.
Upcoming: work in progress sharing at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, Saturday 18th July 2025
Image credit: meisterdrucke.com
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gentlemen of the jury
☆☆☆☆☆ - Spy in the Stalls
☆☆☆☆ - East Midland Theatre
“an intensely powerful piece of theatre” - Cambridge Critique
In an appeals room in a government building, an officer hosts Ladies Night.
Four women appear before a jury to tell their stories, competing for pardon.
Who deserves it the most? The gentlemen of the jury will decide.
gentlemen of the jury is a new play/experiment about the re-criminalisation of abortion and the corrosion of democracy.
27th-29th June, Cambridge Guildhall, produced by AKRO Theatre
Image credit: Daniel McKay
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MESSIAH
☆☆☆☆½ - The Tab
☆☆☆☆ - Varsity
“This is bigger than you, bigger than me, bigger than all of us.”
When Sophie starts working for a maverick new leader of the opposition, it’s a chance to leave her past behind. But when scandal sweeps the commons, Sophie is faced with an impossible decision. What’s more important - integrity or pragmatism? And what are we willing to look past?
MESSIAH is a new play about sex and power in a time of political crisis.
Image credit: Jean-Marié Malan
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Softboy
“Nobody wants to watch a play about misogyny.”
At a London secondary school, Nadine and Kay muddle through their first queer relationship, whilst Jared and Amber try to navigate the end of theirs. At an East Coast university, playwriting student Rebecca attempts to dramatise reality as the world around her burns.
Softboy examines misogyny in the digital age and its impact on the lives of women.
Softboy was performed in June 2024 at Mountview, directed by Lilly Butcher. The cast of graduating actors were Dion Di Maio, Charlie Gordon, Sophie Pamment (pictured), and Lula Jahangiri. Recording available on request.
Image credit: Fiona Winning
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don't stand so close to me
"It feels weird saying this out loud but - I find it hard to believe someone could be interested in me. I'm not into stuff that most people are into. Romantically."
Jamie has never been in a relationship before, but she knows all about desire and fantasy. Spending her nights working in a club cloakroom and her days taking care of her niece, she sets out to meet the one. But when a girl starts turning up to her house in the middle of the night, the memories she's pushed to the back of her mind get harder to ignore.
don't stand so close to me is a new play about what happens when we face our fantasies. It was programmed at The King’s Head Theatre as part of their Sight Unseen season in April 2023, performed by Rosie Dwyer and Shadee Yaghoubi. It was directed by Aisling Towl.
This play also received developmental support from the Omnibus Theatre in 2022 in the form of a rehearsed reading, and dramaturgical support from the Royal Court theatre, where it was first conceived as part of an intro to playwriting group.
Image credit: Aisling Towl
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pearl apple penguin
On a hot evening at London Zoo, two women meet by the penguin enclosure. Pearl would really like to stay. Apple would like to clean up and go home. Penguins are not mammals. They hurl questions at the universe. Most mammals have hair. Where is Marcia?
In 2021, pearl apple penguin was part of the 46th Annual Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Festival, New York. It was one of 6 winning plays chosen for publication by Samuel French.
It went on again in London as part of Slime and Pies Theatre Writer’s Festival at the Golden Goose Theatre in July 2023. It was directed by Poppy Sutch and performed by Caroline Menton, Alison Rose and Leanne Sule.
Image credit: Poppy Sutch
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Godfrey
Carys turns up for her first shift at Godfrey’s restaurant determined to remain invisible. Instead, she finds her life increasingly entangled with the people she meets there, less and less able to hide from them, or herself.
What happens when when you're too sad for work but it’s the only thing they’ll pay you for? Godfrey is a new play about hope, rage and gentrification.
First commissioned as part of The Monobox's Playstart initiative in 2018, Godfrey started life as a 15-minute play in a warehouse in Bermondsey. Since then, it was developed into a full length piece, published in a collection by Oberon and long-listed for the Royal Court's Lynne Gagliano Prize 2019.
Godfrey enjoyed a sold out run at the VAULTS festival in 2020, 3 weeks before the first Covid lockdown. It was directed by Roberta Zuric, produced by Sarah Stallwood-Hall, and performed by Lauren La Roque, Harriet Leitch, Sonny Poon-Tip and Jimmy Boswell.
Image credit: Roberta Zuric