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REALIFE TV
(2M 2F) |
It's Angela first big assignment -
the chance to make a name for herself. A man suffering from amnesia
has come to the notice of Jason, her boss. He wants to know if
there's any mileage in it for their TV 'human interest' series. Read by awl November 2006. Click here for cast list. |
ISOBEL AND THE MATADOR
(45 mins 2M 1F) |
Runner-up National Festival of Community
Drama. A fanatic of the bull-fight decides if he can’t practise
with a bull a substitute will do. |
DOWN THE RIVER
(1 hr 45 mins 3M 1F) |
Commissioned and performed by Theatre
Royal, Stratford East. Director Jules Wright. Dockers’ livelihoods
come under threat from technological advance, and with it their
friendships. |
KEEPING FAITH
(1 hr 45 mins 4M 4) |
Short-listed Maddermarket Theatre full-length
play competition. Micki’s father’s a traditionalist but
Jake - her partner - thinks monogamy’s days are numbered. |
KEEPING FAITH
(60 mins 1M 2F) |
Revised 3 character version. Performed Kings
Head by Elephant Theatre Co. Jake thinks monogamy’s dead until
Micki takes him at his word. |
BEST FRIENDS
(1 hr 20 mins 5M 2F) |
Entered National Student Drama Festival, Dacorum
College student drama group - writing commended (Stephen Jeffries)
- white and Asian adolescents love and battle in a London School. |
JAMES BONNEY M.P.
(1 hr 45 mins 3M 3F) |
Short-listed, Verity Bargate Award, 1987 -
rehearsed public reading Soho Theatre. The life and loves of a sitting
Labour M.P. as he comes under attack from a young militant. |
SAY YOU DO
(1 hr 40 mins 3M 3F) |
Comedy of domestic relationships on day after
wedding-day of young couple |
FIRST TIMERS
(1 hr 20 mins 2M 1F) |
Developed Soho Theatre’s writer-director
workshops. Performed Duke’s Head 1992, director David Gillies.
A desperate young man seeks sexual release. A young girl is forced
into prostitution. For both it’s a first. |
DR RICHTER AND PERO
(1 hr 45mins 4M 1F) |
Awarded Arts Council writer’s bursary
to undertake this project. Lenin, his wife Krupskaya and Trotsky
meet in London in 1902 for the first time. |
RESCUE ME
(1 hr 40 mins 2M 2F) |
A young man, recently out of nick, tries to
keep to the straight and narrow, but temptations grow. |
SPELLING IT OUT
(1 hr 40 mins 4M) |
Public reading ‘The Play’s The Thing
Festival’, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. An internationally
renowned star of ‘serious’ films agrees to be interviewed
for a biog-doc. The process takes an unexpected turn when questions
of his sexuality arise during filming. |
ENIGMAS
(1 hr 45 mins 5M 3F) |
2nd round Verity Bargate Award - A successful
emigre businessman is accused of war-crimes. True or false and how
does his family react to the man they know as father? |
AFRICA STORY
(1 hr 40 mins 4M 1F) |
An English girl falls in love with an African
while holidaying in Gambia. Getting married and settling in England
prove to be no simple matter. |
TAINTED LOVE
(1 hr 45 mins 3M 3F) |
Read by awl.
Gil’s first wife died accidentally, 20
years ago. Now his son Mitchell wants to know exactly how. |
TAINTED LOVE: MONOLOGUES
(1 hr 30 mins 2M 2F) |
The above seen through the eyes of the four
main characters. |
SUITS & BLOUSES
(1 hr 35 mins 2M 2F) |
Performed, The Orange Tree Theatre, London,
May 13-30, 1999. Sarah, a spirited sixth-former, is fighting changes
aimed at taking her school up-market. When her relationship with
a member of staff is uncovered, those in charge have a lever against
her. New second act added since production. |
PLATFORM SOULS
(1 hr 45 mins 5M 1F) |
Completed July 2000 - submitted
Verity Bargate Award. Kal, Richie and Jan home in on commuters as
they pass through Kings Cross station. They need to make money and
are not too fussed how they do it. |
PHILLIP GLIN & THE TEACHING BUG
(40 mins 1M) |
Performed in Showcase at Soho Theatre, 13th
July 2000. Maths lecturer Phillip’s sex life is a mystery -
to himself and others. Is his friendship for Matthew purely platonic?
It’s affecting his professional as well as his personal life
so he needs to sort it out. Reading awl
February 2001 |
TAINTED LOVE (Duologue version)
(65 mins 1M 1F) |
Given public ‘Page To Stage’ workshop
by Stop-Gap Theatre Co In association with Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
- May, 2001. Mitchell and Lisanne, half-brother and sister deal
with past family secrets. Structurally a mix of monologue and
naturalistic scenes. Read by awl
June 2005. Click here for cast list.
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ARTFUL OCCUPATION
(90 mins 3M) |
1940 - the German army gains control of France.
All valuables in Paris banks are to be inventoried. Picasso hurries
to have his works listed. We witness a battle of wits between him
and the two German officers detailed to catalogue his works. Who
will come out victorious? Read by awl
September 2004. Click here for
cast list. The play was subsequently give a showcase public reading on March 14th 2005 at the Old Red Lion Theatre. Cast were Jeremy Wilkins, Joshua Le Touzel and Clive Ward, directed by Harry Saks.
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REALIFE TV
(1hr 50mins 2M 2F) |
Most recently completed play. A young tv documentarist
for a ‘human interest’ slot, begins to get involved
in the lives she is documenting. Is she there simply to ‘observe’
or should she jazz up the action a bit? Is she to blame for the
explosive conclusion to her drama? |
THE RETURN
(1hr 40mins 4M 4F)
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A family's youngest son has served his time.
For one brief afternoon, he and his family can meet in a "safe
house". When Ben arrives, how long is it safe for him to stay?
He's taken on a new identity to protect him from his criminal "friends".
How wil his wife react to the prospect of their "new"
life together? The Return reached the second round of the Verity Bargate 2007 award. |
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| CHANGING GEAR (15 mins IM IF) |
Broadcast BBC Radio 4 and Hessische Rundfunk
- a husband teaches his wife to drive with comic consequences. |
THE REVOLUTIONARY
(30 mins 1M 1F) |
Hessische Rundfunk (Frankfurt,1989) A second-hand
car-dealer devotes his profits to the cause of the revolution. |
TWIN PLAY
(60 mins 4M 3F) |
Twin sons from a footballing family, head for
success under the tutelage of their father. Though they don’t
know it, only one is going to make it. Submitted to TAPS |
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PUBLIC FAVOUR
(60 mins) |
A single headmistress gets pregnant to a married
teacher. The Governors are shocked - should she be dismissed? They
decide to put it to a parent-vote. |
S.W.A.L.K.
(50 mins 4M 3F) |
An impressionable girl sends patriotic letters
to a young Gulf soldier. Returned home, he finds she wants the relationship
to continue and will not be dissuaded. |
BUCKING BRONCO
(30 mins 5F 2M) |
A comic look at a women’s evening Keep-Fit
class. Submitted to tv companies with a number of follow-up episodes |
OTHERWORLDS
(60 mins x 2 3M 2F) |
A two-part political thriller written for t.v.
When Ben meets his childhood sweetheart unexpectedly he wants to
know what she does for a living. The truth leads him into a world
of political blackmail. Submitted to TAPS. |
FIREFIGHTERS
(60 mins x2 7M 7F) |
A single drama. When a body is discovered in
a burned out art-room in a local school, Douglas Foster is given
the case. Suicide, accident or murder? As he and his assistant Siva
work to uncover the truth, the investigation leads him in an unexpected
and unwanted direction. |
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In addition to his many writing credits with awl
(as featured above), Ian also directed the awl
readings of The Lesser Evil by Bob Braithwaite in June 2007, The Boy on the
Bridge by Gareth
Pilkington in October 2006, and Job by Geoffrey
Lee in June 2005.
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