Alice Josephs’s first play, Briefcase Encounter
– A Financial Fantasy, a two-act comedy drama, reached the
second round of the 2007 Verity Bargate Award. Since then, she has
had two one-act plays staged, a melodrama, For The
Public Good (director Alex Summers), and a farce, Swimming
Naked (director Catherine Arden), both inspired by news stories.
She has also written a number of short comic plays, including Wonderful
Guy and Happy Ending, and gained a BBC radio
credit for gag writing.
Credits
AWL
Acting Credits
| Writer | Play | Role | Director |
| Elizabeth Gamberoni | Put it All on My Account | Anne | Carolyn Pertwee |
Writing Credits
| Play | Director |
| Happy Ending | |
| Wonderful Guy |
Readings
Happy Ending
AWL Showface
Showcase, December 2008
A documentary on an Oscar-winning veteran director and
a film star only skims
the surface of how they became bankable commodities and found their ‘happy
ending’ ...
Wonderful Guy
AWL Showface Showcase, November 2007
Neil thinks he’s lucky – Ellie once loved him, his son Steve adores him
and Neil shares his intimate thoughts with a Wonderful Guy – Guy the Gorilla,
that is …
Plays
Swimming Naked!
Directed by Catherine Arden
Barons Court Theatre, March/April 2009
With Catherine
Potter, Maggie Robson and Mark Shaer
A
Farce For Our Financial Times!
It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked!
First there was Charles Ponzi, then Bernie Madoff … Now there’s Paul Stone! Paul, Zoe and Amanda think they're victims of the Credit Crunch - they got found out! This new play slices and dices the financial crisis, throwing together a Ponzi-scheming fraudster, a pizza boy who’s not what he seems and a high-flying investment manager … all Swimming Naked!
Annabel Grundy – Sound/Lighting; Amy Cartwright – Designer;
Will Seaward – Stage Manager/Artist
For The Public Good
Directed by Alex Summers
Barons Court Theatre, September 2008
With Daisy Aitkens, Hilary Burns, Clareine Cronin, Antonia Christy and Laura
Waddell
Locked Up For Life Through No Fault of Her Own. Is She
On Your Family Tree?
A healthy patient harbours a deadly disease. Over sixty years later, with
a former
mental asylum set for demolition, an anonymous email sent from a
local library
draws five women together. The family tree researcher, the
archivist, the wannabe
journalist, the doctor and the mystery email sender
all on a genealogical detective trail.
Inspired by a BBC investigation, For
The Public Good explores the hidden tragedy
behind draconian measures to
protect the nation's health.
Josh Barnes – Sound; Elanor Collins – Designer;
Will Jackson – lighting;
Fiona Shepherd – Stage Manager
Briefcase Encounter - A Financial Fantasy
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