Plays - Adult
About Face
A one act play with a cast of 4 (2 women, 2 men)
Jill and Liz, two old school friends, meet after twenty years and Jill invites Liz and her husband Rod to dinner. Jill and Jack have a suburban lifestyle, six kids and a large mortgage. Liz and Rod live in the inner city in a townhouse with two wolf hounds. Each couple is unsettled by desire for a lifestyle so different from their own.
Jill and Liz, two old school friends, meet after twenty years and Jill invites Liz and her husband Rod to dinner. Jill and Jack have a suburban lifestyle, six kids and a large mortgage. Liz and Rod live in the inner city in a townhouse with two wolf hounds. Each couple is unsettled by desire for a lifestyle so different from their own.
The Cluttered Nest
A one act play with a cast of 5 (3 women, 2 men)
Jean and Tom are celebrating their empty nest when all three children return home on the same night. Patsy returns from London with an illegitimate grand-child, Gary comes home broke after a disastrous attempt at a trip around Australia and Cheryl leaves her newly-wed husband because he asked her to clean the toilet. Needless to say their household is loud and noisy again. How will Jean and Tom deal with this?
Jean and Tom are celebrating their empty nest when all three children return home on the same night. Patsy returns from London with an illegitimate grand-child, Gary comes home broke after a disastrous attempt at a trip around Australia and Cheryl leaves her newly-wed husband because he asked her to clean the toilet. Needless to say their household is loud and noisy again. How will Jean and Tom deal with this?
The Perils of Purity Pimble - a melodrama
Version 1: A one act play with musical interludes
Version 2: A two act, 'play within a play'
Both with a cast of 10 (7 women, 3 men)
Henry the vicar and his wife Eliza are awaiting the Intrepid Travelling Troupe, who are coming by bullock cart to perform their melodrama in the Parish Hall. When the troupe’s manager finally arrives, he promises that the audience will experience villainy, treachery and dastardly deeds. Purity Pimble, the heroine of the melodrama, is in charge of Pimble Hall while her parents are away in England. For love, there is hero Manleigh Pluck, for lust there is the fiendish villain Sir Horatio Hornsby. Not only is Purity in peril, but so are the comfortable lives of her old nanny, Violet Tremble and her three aunts, Lascivia, Trivia and Oblivia and the maid Polly.
Version 2: A two act, 'play within a play'
Both with a cast of 10 (7 women, 3 men)
Henry the vicar and his wife Eliza are awaiting the Intrepid Travelling Troupe, who are coming by bullock cart to perform their melodrama in the Parish Hall. When the troupe’s manager finally arrives, he promises that the audience will experience villainy, treachery and dastardly deeds. Purity Pimble, the heroine of the melodrama, is in charge of Pimble Hall while her parents are away in England. For love, there is hero Manleigh Pluck, for lust there is the fiendish villain Sir Horatio Hornsby. Not only is Purity in peril, but so are the comfortable lives of her old nanny, Violet Tremble and her three aunts, Lascivia, Trivia and Oblivia and the maid Polly.
Two to Tangle
A one act play with a cast of 2 (1 woman, 1 man)
Sue and Nick meet to divide up their mutual possessions after having been separated for some time and living with other partners. As memories are re-awoken of their life together, so are recriminations and accusations and even some tender moments. They are a couple who can’t live together peacefully at all and yet find life without the other strangely dissatisfying.
Sue and Nick meet to divide up their mutual possessions after having been separated for some time and living with other partners. As memories are re-awoken of their life together, so are recriminations and accusations and even some tender moments. They are a couple who can’t live together peacefully at all and yet find life without the other strangely dissatisfying.
