SCRIPTS
Listed below are an example of scripts that are available - there are more listed within the CV and range from large casts, to family entertainment, to monologue, or small casts, from comedy to serious drama, puppetry, and circus. There are also many audio dramas available for performance exploring themes as diverse as the housing crisis, The diaries of Samuel Pepys, angelic visitation, family breakdown, musical genius - (Paganini, Berlioz) medieval saints (Saint Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Sienna), etc. Contact details in the main menu.
Ivan and the Dogs (cast size -one)
Ivan and the Dogs is based on the extraordinary true story of Ivan Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs.
This multi award-winning play won the Tinniswood Award in 2009 and was subsequently Olivier nominated in 2010. The resonant and far reaching script documents a complete collapse in society and has been performed all over the world, in multiple languages languages from New York to Buenos Aires to Tbilisi. It is currently touring nationally in Italy in a breathtaking new production with Federica Rosellini and translated by Monica Capuani. (cast size - one)
Fledglings (cast size 4)
This Gothic Thriller charts the move from London to rural Wales, and Selva’s abandonment by her composer husband Garth, for his childhood sweetheart, Ceris.
The play opens with the initially happy ‘new’ couple ‘celebrating’ their union. Then moves from the familiar ground of relationship break-down to otherness, as Selva is visited by a lost and brutalised boy who claims to be the soul of a Crow. Their connected worlds collide in envy, jealousy, and the supernatural, in a play written in English and Welsh.
This is the theatre version of DEAD WEATHER which won three awards in the BBC Audio Drama Awards in 2022, including Best Original Drama. ( cast size 4)
BLUEBEARD
Susan was from Burnley.
Thin, white, gentle, dull. Twenty-two, twenty-four, maybe younger, Nineteen. Perhaps. I can’t really remember.
She knew.
There at the edge of her, of her thin white gentle, dull, green eyed self, was it, this..
like a small flame.
Not so dull close up – was Susan.
This hard-hitting and controversial play looks at male violence and the complicity of women. ( cast size - one)
THE NIGHT WATCH
Adapted from Sarah Waters
Hattie Naylor’s beautifully deft adaptation springs Sarah Waters’s bestseller on to the stage in a pitch-perfect production
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Guardian. Susannah Clapp.
"The Night Watch" is a historical novel by Sarah Waters, published in 2006, which tells the interconnected stories of four Londoners during World War II. The novel, set in the 1940s and moving backward in time to the start of the war, explores themes of desire, regret, sexual adventure, and heroism. It received praise for its structure, characterisation, and depiction of queer lives and experiences during the war ( cast size 8)
THE MARXIST IN HEAVEN
The Marxist in Heaven is a play that does exactly what its title page ays it's going to do. The eponymous protagonist 'wakes up' in paradise and once they get over the shock of this fundamental contradiction of everything they believe in…..they get straight back to work….and continue their lifelong struggle for equality and fairness for all….even in death. Funny, playful, provocative, pertinent and jam-packed with discourse, disputes, deities and disco dancing by the bucketful, this upbeat buoyant allegory shines its holy light on globalization and asks the salient questions – who are we and what are we doing to ourselves?.....and what conditioner do you use on your hair?
The Marxist in Heaven is included in National Theatre Connections 2020, an anthology which brings together 9 new plays by some of the UK's most prolific and current writers and artists alongside notes on each of the texts exploring performance for schools and youth groups.
This is a large cast play (cast size 20+ )
The Three Musketeers
A joyful twist on the classic swashbuckler - themes of kindness and inclusivity are threaded cleverly through a lavish, thrilling adaptation –Nominated in the Theatre Awards 2018 for Best Family Entertainment
“All for one and one for all!” rings out the cry of the three musketeers and the girl D’Artagnan. Girl? Yes, girl! Hattie Naylor’s adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s fiction is charmingly gender-playful. The charm is not anodyne – it’s the sparkle on this purposeful play, in which acceptance and inclusivity are the keynotes”.
Clare Brennan – Guardian 22nd July 2018
An inclusive play for all the family - perfect as a summer festival show or at Christmas (cast size 7+)