IAN BUCKLEY
Writer/Director
  

Ian Buckley is a prolific writer of plays for stage, radio and television. He specialises in naturalistic, contemporary plays with a comic touch

Credits

AWL

Directing Credits
Play Writer
The Lesser Evil (revised) Bob Braithwaite
The Boy on the Bridge Gareth Pilkington
Job Geoffrey Lee
Writing Credits
Play Director
The Moment We Met Carolyn Pertwee
The Return Mark Solomon
Realife TV Harry Saks
Tainted Love Jacqui Dickson
Artful Occupation Harry Saks

 

Radio Plays

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.

Stage Plays

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, directed by Jules Wright
Dockers’ livelihoods come under threat from technological advance, and with it their friendships

Keeping Faith
(1 hr 45 mins 4M 4F)

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 MP
(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, directed by 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)

Second 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: Monologues
(1 hr 30 mins 2M 2F)

Gil’s first wife died accidentally, 20 years ago. Now his son Mitchell
wants to know exactly how as seen through the eyes
of the four main characters.

Suits & Blouses
(1 hr 35 mins 2M 2F)

Performed, The Orange Tree Theatre, London, May 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, 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.

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.

Artful Occupation
(90 mins 3M)

A showcase public reading in March 2005 at the Old Red Lion Theatre
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?

The Return
(1hr 40mins 4M 4F)

Reached the second round of the Verity Bargate 2007 award.
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 will his
wife react to the prospect of their "new" life together? 

Television Plays

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 television. 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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