YOU MAY DOWNLOAD THE PLAYSCRIPTS AND STORIES BELOW
STAGE PLAYS:
Still Waters – The Five Minute Version. Still Waters was a joint winner of the Lost Theatre (Stockwell, London) Festival of Five Minute Plays, in December 2011. Cast: Hilary Field, Francesca Wilde /Teresa Jennings and Christopher Owen. Director: Charlie Swallow. Click to download: STILL WATERS 5 MINUTE VERSION
An Evening with Jack and Harry.
A full length evening of 4 duologues. Jack and Harry, two old men, retired floor assistants at a Formal Wear Hire store in London’s West End, are in a pub. They tell of some of the people who used to frequent the Queen’s Arms pub in West London. An Evening with Jack and Harry was performed as a script-in-hand at 7.30 on 28th November 2011 by Actors and Writers London (www.actorsandwriters.org) in the upstairs bar at The Polish Centre, Hammersmith. Click to download: FULL LENGTH AN EVENING WITH JACK AND HARRY 3 DUOS
Women’s Voices by Christopher Owen aand Susan K Monson. A full length stage play about a feminist capella choir. 6 women, 1 man. The script to be downloaded written October 2011. Click to download: WOMEN’S VOICES
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Beware! Danger Zone! A 20 minute satire on Health and Safety. Performed script-in-hand at Actors and Writers
London at the Polish Centre on Monday 21 March 2011. Cast: Gregory Cox, Teresa Jennings, Stephen O’Toole, Richard Ward. Director: Carolyn Pertwee. Sound: Michael Murray. Click to download: BEWARE! DANGER-ZONE!
Anthony and Monica. A 20 minute Jack and Harry (two old men in a pub) duologue. Performed script-in-hand by Richard Ward and Denys Graham at Actors and Writers London at the Polish Centre on Monday 21 March 2011. Director: Carolyn Pertwee. Comment: ‘Owen’s fantastic work ranges from the entertaining to the poignant’ -Teresa Jennings (AWL) Click to download: ANTHONY AND MONICA
Peter and Tina duologue one-act. Old Jack and Harry in a pub tell the ‘tragic’ story of Peter and his Polish wife Tina. Click to download: PETER AND TINA
Webber’s Formal Wear Hire department duologue one-act. Old Jack and Harry tell the story of their time at Webbers as floor assistants. Click to download: WEBBER’S FORMAL WEAR HIRE DEPARTMENT.WEBBERS FORMAL WEAR HIRE DEPARTMENT
Still Waters. A ten minute comedy (psychiatrist and patient) performed script-in-hand by Martin Wimbush, Francesca Wilde and Hilary Field at Actors and Writers London Monday 13 December 2010. Runner Up: “Silence is Golden” Competition. Comment: ‘A clever, perceptive and sharp piece of writing’ - Martin Wimbush (AWL) Click to download: STILL WATERS
Sunday Afternoon Tea. 8 minutes comedy performed with script-in-hand as part of the Showcase Evening at Actors and Writers London on 6th June 2011. Cast: Liz Felton, Elizabeth Graham, Hayward Morse. Click to download: SUNDAY AFTERNOON TEA
Fight to the Finish (Edith Sitwell meets Noel Coward). Received a rehearsed reading in 2007 with the title An Indian Summer at the Old Vic London, arranged by Chichester Festival Theatre and James Barber, Director of The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, featuring Penelope Keith. Comment from Michael Grandage / Donmar: ‘I enjoyed it a great deal – I hope you get it on somewhere as I’d love to see it.‘ Click to download: THE FIGHT TO THE FINISH
Fitting up the Gentlemen. Full length satirical comedy stage play set in the 1970’s in a Gentlemen’s Formal Wear Hire department. Click to download: FITTING UP THE GENTLEMEN
A Wilde Affair. (Miss Prism and Canon Chasuble In Concert).
Toured the UK with Susan Flannery and Michael Lunts between 2006 and 2008. It also played in Australia. Comment: ‘An excellent entertainment…an hilarious evening’ Newbury Weekly News – Hungerford Festival Review. Click to download: A WILDE AFFAIR
A Parson’s Tale. A one-man show performed by Christopher Owen and between 1995 and 2004 toured extensively throughout the UK and in the Gulf States.
Comment: ‘Hilarious. Involves the whole audience. By the end of the evening it felt we were taking leave of a dear friend’ – Lichfield Mercury.
Click to download: A PARSONS TALE
A Family Affair. One-Act comedy set in Wales. First performed in 2009 by Cranwell Amateur Theatrical Society whose production was adjudicated WINNER of the Royal Air Force Theatrical Association Festival of One-Act Plays at Whittle Hall, RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire. Cast of three: Su Toogood, Malcolm Jones, Peggy Reading. Director: Pamela Jones. Comment: “The comedy is dry and understated with the occasional eruption of emotion I can hardly remember when I last saw such committed eating on stage. It was a great moment of theatre and beautifully handled by all concerned.” Adjudicator: Paul Fowler GODA
Click to download: A FAMILY AFFAIR
FACADE. 90 minute Screen on Two
BBCTV. Producer: Louis Marks. Director: Warris Hussein. To star: John Gielgud.
The production pulled due to lack of American money. Click to download: FACADE
STORIES:
The Camel’s Back. (930 words) Click to download: THE CAMEL’S BACK
Colour Blind. (1242 words) Click to download: COLOUR BLIND
An Honourable Life. (1373 words) Click to download: AN HONOURABLE LIFE
Anthony and Monica. (3224 words) Click to download:ANTHONY AND MONICA STORY
