John Timperley. Long standing lyricist, turned playwright. Now
enjoying collaboration at the performing level, rather than the
creative
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Kennedy: The Thousand Days
Book and lyrics by John
Timperley.
Music by Richard Storry.
The story of John F Kennedy's presidency in terms of his family
relationships, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his interaction
with Martin Luther King.
A full length, medium sized production, in a minimal set. Cast
of four principals and ten other players.
Showcased at The Jermyn Street Theatre in November 1999.
Full production with five piece orchestra and synthesised music,
performed at Hampton Hill Playhouse in June 2002.
Three RUTAC Drama Award Nominations.
Soixante Neuf
A sprightly bachelor of sixty nine years, is able to "accommodate" a
brilliant young female writer, who has been emotionally bruised
by her earlier friendships. Her sprightly mother is not amused.
At first.
A full length, single set, three hander, in two acts.
Performed to full houses at the Studio
Theatre, Hampton Hill Playhouse in February 2002.
Currently, under consideration for an awl reading.
Thicker than Water
A highly dynamic, and monetarily successful business woman,
is appalled by her university educated daughter's wayward lifestyle
and seeming collapse into drugs. In imprisoning her daughter
at home to detox her, the mother finds herself imprisoned and
is forced
to confront her own failings.
A full length, single set, three hander, in two acts.
awl reading in February 2002:
€UNITY
A streetwise and womanising Londoner is host to his two long
standing friends from Europe - a wealthy, wife savaged but still
frisky German, and an irascible, opinionated and aromatic restaurant
owner from Paris.
Apart from having sex, Formula 1 racing, football and drinking
in common, they discover another mutual interest, in the form
of the host's cleaning lady's daughter - an attractive and
talented investment banker.
Another Treaty of Versailles?
A full length,
single set, five hander, in two acts.
Act one of €unity was read at awl in
January 2004.
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