A number of my shorter plays for the Drama Festival, along with one pantomime, are published by DramaWorks

The Changeling Princess (pantomime) 38 or more mixed cast, can double. Full length. Years 6/7/8 [ages 9-13]. humorous fun panto-style play without lovey-dovey bits.

Year of the Strangers 8F, 6M suitable for upper primary or middle schools. approx 50 mins. Years 6/7/8 [ages 10-13]. Running from one Christmas to the next, it follows the assimilation of a Polish family into a British school.

Suspicion  13F chars. doubling poss. approx 30 mins. Years 7-10 [ages 11-15] This play explores the theme of gossip and the damage it can do in a school environment.

Inside Sam’s Head  14F chars. approx 25 mins. A play which dramatises the experience of being deaf and other peoples’ perceptions of it within a school environment.

Flat Spin   6/7 F. approx 25 mins. An unselfish act amongst University students sharing a student flat. Realistic setting and situation.

Flat Spin 2 8F doubling poss. approx 25 min. The same students try to persuade their difficult landlady they are fit tenants for another year. Comical fun.

A Good Cause  5F,4M or more, approx 40 mins. Years 9/10 [ages 13-15] A story of family and political conflict as we follow Janie Sandison and the Women’s Suffrage Movement from 1910 onwards.

The Lasses of the Haaf Gruney  4F, 1M. Years 9/10/11 [ages 13-16]. Old Shetland Isle story of two sisters lost at sea who fetched up in Norway. Dialect play. Some flexibility in cast. approx 25 mins.

The Story of Maggie Reid   5F, 3M. approx 30 mins. The true tale of a 19th century girl who killed herself when her sailor fiancé, believed dead, turned up after she had married his father. Told in a Greek tragedy style, with chorus, this also looks at the hardship of the crofting life, and the limitations on women of the time.

Tontine  14F / 3M. The running time, uncut, is approx one hour. For a shorter play, it could be cut to exclude some of the periphery characters, focusing on the main ones, doubled with the modern teenagers. Linked together with the silk-workers’ chants, it could still be an effective piece. The appalling facts about the young women who worked in the French silk manufacturing businesses in the 18th century.