It was whilst on completing the writing this of this book that drew more w to the writing of plays.
It was not the fact that there are so many books written and so few published neither the fact that plays takes as
larger piece of ones life. No it was the simple fact that in the writing of a book the plot changes in ones mind in so many occasions.
Whereas it is within the nature of a plays plot to be simplistic,
in retrospect the plot for most plays can be summed up in a few hundred words.
Inconclusiom, I shall leave it for you to peruse the book at your leisure.
LATEST PLAYS
These are exerts of my two latest pays.
LOUISE FINLEY:
The play last nearly two hours and was intended for television but could be easily adapted for the silver screen.
It is certainly the play that as taken me the least time of time to write.
The play covers events leading up to the suicide bombing in London 2005. One may say that it is wrong to write about such subject matter, maybe it is but these events do dare I say need recording for prosperity.
THEIR PATHS CROSSED IN ROME:
Their Paths crossed in Rome is by far the play that up to know I have by far researched the most.
The play is set in the 1700�s and is when Angelica Kauffmann and Lousie Vegee Le Brun had there one and only meeting in 1789 Rome. The play flashes back over both of their lives in various places in Europe up until that point when they meet in Rome.
The play like Louise Finley last nearly two hours and was written with television in mind but would make a bodice ripping movie.
It�s not difficult to imagine oneself in a play set in the present day or the near past but it becomes an entirely a different exercise when ones goes back several hundred years or more, hence the research. Enjoy the first fifteen pages.
SHELLEY:
The play is concerned with the build up of Mary Shelley beginning to sit down and write her first book Frankenstein. The play is set at the Villa Diodoti on the shores of Lake Geneva, where John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost, had visited in the sixteen hundreds. Rousseau and Voltaire had also resided on these shores. Yes normally idyllic; one may say as one looks across and down Lake Geneva. But alas no, far from it not in the summer of eighteen sixteen, in the previous year a volcano Tambora in Indonesia, had erupted, the largest volcanic recorded eruption ever recorded.
Over a number of days Mary Shelley (Seventeen), Percy Shelley (Twenty two), George Byron (Twenty six), Claire Claremont (Nineteen), Edward John Trelawny (Twenty four) he arrives the following day and Dr John Polidori (Twenty). The friends have various happenings during their stay at the villa which on reflection course Mary to have nightmares which among other incidents provide her with the fruit to put pen to paper and write Frankenstein.
30 AUGUST 1997:
Set in Paris on the 30th August 1997. (That�s the day Lady Diana Spencer died) Anyway the play follows various peoples day whom had no connection with any of the events with we all know so well.
Here are a few of the plays that I have written over the past few years, I hope that you enjoy them.
The Landing:
Set in World War to a short play in the form of a monologue which originated as a short story. The play is set on a landing craft approaching the Normandy beaches.
Working Man Not:
Half an hour monologue written for radio. I have not added any direction as I wish for you to ad that at your leisure.
Wendy and the Wild, wild west:
A simple short story set in the present day which I think the anyone can relate to .
Gita:
Twenty five minute monologue on Islam in the UK. I wrote this before 9/11 just after there were riots in Harehills in Leeds. I do hope that it makes the point that I intended.
