Reunions
“Hand on heart – not a day’s gone by without thinking about you – even after all these years.”
One summer night, one lonely hotel bar, three ex-couples reunite and have their first conversation years since the break-up. They finally lay their cards on the table only to find that the past is not fixed but fluid, like the patterns in a kaleidoscope, alive with changing possibilities.
Reunions is a story about wrong turns, second chances and the one ‘who got away’.
Performances at Theatre503, London
9th & 10th September 2018 at 7:30pm
Danny Boy
Won Best Short Play of the Year Competition 2017 at Player-Playwrights
A middle-aged man attends the funeral of his first love’s deceased wife but at the wake, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his ex-lover with what he’s held back from saying for over twenty years.
The Secret Soldier
(3 min monologue) Player-Playwrights Monologue Showcase Oct 2017
1921. After the hell of the trenches, a shell-shocked Irish soldier returns home to find it barely recognisable, post-Easter uprising and in the throes of the Anglo-Irish War. To survive here now, he has to deny his involvement in WW1, but his new girlfriend’s Nationalist family suspect his disloyalty, jeopardising his future.
Botticelli’s Angels
It’s the aftermath of the Church’s apology for the clergy’s abuse of children in their care. A middle-aged Irish immigrant responds to a call to support and compensate victims, seeking justice for his late brother. But the interview with the outreach worker turns into a powerful game-changer in which both of them get much more than they’d ever bargained for.
- July 2016 Long-list Papatango Prize
- June 2015 Finalist (along with 4 others) New Writing Autumn Showcase Birmingham Rep
- Jan 2015 Finalist BBC Script Room 8 Talent Search
- Oct 2014 Finalist New Dramatist Club – ‘a moving and gripping exploration of grief’
- Sept 2014 Semi-Finalist T.S. Elliott Commission – Old Vic Theatre
- Sept 2014 Winner Moon Dance International Festival (Best Foreign Stage Play)
- May 2014 Finalist Write Now Festival 5 at Brockley Jack Theatre. Dynamic staged reading:
Female Arts Review
British Theatre Guide Review
- Feb 2012 Finalist of Steyning Theatre Trails Competition
- April 2012 Shortlist Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama
- June 2012 Shortlist Dramatic Association of Wales One Act Play Competition
The Reunion
A middle-aged man receives a letter from the woman who jilted him at the altar twenty-five years ago and disappeared from his life. She’s flown from the States and needs to see him but can he meet her and face the truth?
10 min 2 hander duologue
- Semi-Finalist Five n’ Ten Sandalle Competition Sept 2015
- Winner Write Now Festival 7 Selected Short Plays May 2016 at the Jack Studio Theatre performed May 2016. Click here for more information
- Short List Play & Pint Competition July 2016
- Winner Theatre N16 Draft 3 Development Programme & Performance June 2016
Audience Feedback
“I loved the way the play plays with the narration/inner dialogue.”
“Such clearly drawn characters.”
“To me, it was the masterpiece of the evening – both on the writing and acting. A whole movie was rolling in my head while watching it. Totally engaging theatre.”
“The goat farm thing was hilarious.”
Pressure Point
A Thai yoga masseur and his married client explore the chemistry between them that’s getting in the way of the treatments.
Short stage play (2 minutes)
Finalist Traverse 50 Short Play Competition 2012
“Your play made a particular impact on the panel… You demonstrated real craft and a compelling theatrical voice.”
Hamish Pirie, Associate Director Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh