About me
My Plays
Abigail\'s Adventures in Boston!
Synopsis:
On the outskirts of Boston runaway rebel and instigator of the most slay girl cult Salem will ever see, gaslighting girlboss Abigail Williams makes a run for it. With a rudimentary grasp of witchcraft learned from Instagram reels, a single Lost Mary vape pen, two gal pals and the all powerful presence of the Goddess Babylon she has only her former identity to lose- which should be easy, right? Featuring REAL witchcraft performed by REAL witches, this is 'The Crucible' as you've never seen it before.
Performed and Developed with Rene Jean-Marie for Theatre Deli's SHIFT + SPACE residency in 2023.
Number of Characters: 5
Minimum Number of Actors Required: -1
Length (in Pages): 26
Location: Boston
Key Words: crucible, witchcraft, audience participation
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-103499082?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Beneath
Synopsis:
It's hot. Ivy wants to swim. Holly wants to poeticise. Something's watching and waiting for the cracks to grow.
We follow Holly and Ivy's relationship over the course of one summer at the Ponds where they are accompanied by shadows of former events and shades of violence that lurk beneath the mossy waters.
Number of Characters: 3
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3
Length (in Pages): 38
Location: Kenwood Ladies Ponds
Key Words: queer, ghost story
Has the Play Been Produced? No
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
Blue Eyed Hag
Synopsis:
Sycorax finds herself in a strange new land, separated from all she's known. As she navigates this intractable isle, with its unseen inhabitants, her powers grow and she begins to shed the skins of her former lives.
Based on the Algerian witch Sycorax from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', this piece speculates on the nature of belonging and decolonial magic.
It was created for the Almeida's U25 Festival in 2021.
Number of Characters: 3
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1
Length (in Pages): 17
Location: The Island
Key Words: Tempest, Shakespeare, Sycorax
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
get it off yer chest
Synopsis:
In the middle of the night she can't breathe. Maybe it's all the cigarettes.
Or maybe it's the demon sitting slap bang in the middle of her chest wanging on about how she should stop smoking cigarettes.
get it off yer chest is a play about sleep paralysis and awful disgusting nasty habits.
It was produced for the Newmarket One Act Play Festival, Canada in 2023.
Number of Characters: 3
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2
Length (in Pages): 33
Location: A bedroom
Key Words: sleep paralysis, demons
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
Knowledge is Power
Synopsis:
In a dystopia run by Instagram, Kay and Em attempt to decipher what is hashtag real. A dystopian satire focusing on image, flex-culture and female friendship.
Number of Characters: 2
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2
Length (in Pages): 70
Location: Interrogation cell
Key Words: dystopia, satire, female friendship
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins: Best New Writing, London Student Drama Festival, 2017
Reviews:
**- The Scotsman
Summoning Sondheim
Synopsis:
Summoning Sondheim is a musical comedy séance that uses the power of musical theatre to summon us theatre kids’ Lord & Savior, Stephen Joshua Sondheim (the Joshua is important).
Co-written and performed by Jordana Belaiche and Grace O'Keefe. Directed by Bel Parker.
Number of Characters: 3
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2
Length (in Pages): 30
Location: A seance
Key Words: seance, Sondheim, comedy
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? No
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
****- Lost in Theatreland
****- The Scotsman
****- Broadway Baby
****- Theatre and Tonic
****-Fringebiscuit
****-Loureviews
*****- London Theatre Reviews
*****- Tab in the City
TBC
Synopsis:
It's all TBC, the title, the script, the funding, the actors and whether they will survive their producer's entirely reasonable yet also murderous tendencies by the end of the night. Inspired by the hazardous world of student theatre, this fast paced farce is a cathartic joyride through the latent violent and sexual currents at the heart of every creation process.
Number of Characters: 5
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2
Length (in Pages): 30
Location: An auditiorium
Key Words: Farce, student theatre, backstage play
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
The Man Who Coined the Term
Synopsis:
John Dee has a dream. It's a big dream, huge. It's a dream which will eventually transform the world, reshape it, remake it. He just needs to convince a new young hungry monarch and a couple of angels it's worthwhile.
Based on the lives of Dr John Dee, Edward Kelley and Elizabeth I, this play charts the intricate relationship between occultism, politics and power.
Number of Characters: 3
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3
Length (in Pages): 58
Location: A study, Elizabethan court
Key Words: Dr John Dee, Edward Kelley, Elizabeth I, magic, british empire, occult
Has the Play Been Produced? No
Are the Rights Available? No
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
The Regulars
Synopsis:
The Old King's Knee is dingy, filthy and crumbling. The council hate it, the new Gore-Tex cloaked Aesop-huffing residents hate it, even the pub's resident ancient overweight mongrel hates it and the late night boozers who spill onto Clacker Street long after closing.
That hasn't stopped it being Dodgy Dave's favourite spot to chug back a couple of lagers, play a few pranks on his pals and siphon off the assortment of pirate DVDs he's got clogging up his shed to anyone who'll have them. He's got 10 copies of Taken 2 starring that Liam Neeson fella on him now, if you're interested. Are you? Interested?
With the siren call of gentrification pounding in their ears night and day, the Regulars are determined to keep The Old King's Knee as vile as it always has been, but is Lady Luck on their side?
The Regulars is a raucous love letter to pubs, pub culture and the importance of community in the face of overpriced Guinness.
Developed and performed by Common as Muck x Pure Imagination for Pleasance Future's Festival 2024.
Number of Characters: 8
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 6
Length (in Pages): 29
Location: The Old King's Knee
Key Words: pub, regulars, comedy, drag
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
Triumph of Pan
Synopsis:
Vickybird has given up magick. He's turned domestic. He's got a brand new printing press venture and it's going really really really well. He definitely won't be tempted back to a life of debauchery and demons following a spontaneous visit to his new country idyll by his ex, the occultist and addict Aleister Crowley. He definitely wouldn't give up the suffocating sanctuary of Sussex for an adventure across the Algerian desert. Or would he?
Triumph of Pan is a play about discovering one's own True Will, breaking out of addiction cycles and recovering from unrequited love. It's about Queerness in the early C20th, and brings to life the untold story of the obscure Queer occultist poet Victor B. Neuburg.
It is currently in development with Thalia Arts Theatre Company.
Number of Characters: 8
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 6
Length (in Pages): 70
Location: Vine Cottage/ The Sanctuary/ Algeria
Key Words: occult, poetry, Aleister Crowley, Victor Neuburg, Leila Waddell, Queer, 20th Century
Has the Play Been Produced? No
Are the Rights Available? No
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
W*NKERS
Synopsis:
House White and House Red aren’t exactly
human and they aren’t entirely demonic
either. They're well up for a night on the town though, and you should definitely bring your mum with you, she's well fit and she at least knows the pain of creation.
Drawing on non-Western and Arab
mysticism, they are agents of chaos, entities
that pierce the veils to many worlds with no
explicit or definite aims, except to feed on the
mayhem they create.
Number of Characters: 2
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2
Length (in Pages): 28
Location: The Primordial Soup
Key Words: demons, Bulgakov
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? No
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews: