Ashdown Lee

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Three co-workers on an outward-bound training weekend become hopelessly lost in the forest. They stumble upon a remote village, Ashdown-Lee, where everyone is dressed in clothes from 250 years ago. They soon discover that the magical village appears only one day every fifty years. To the villagers it is the next day, but to the rest of the world a new era. As the co-workers make friends and enemies, fall in love and create jealousies, they must each decide what they want from life, and what they are prepared to do to get it.

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Published by Eldridge Plays and Musicals. Learn more here.

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The Delicate Question

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A man does what he must to survive. But can he live with it afterwards?

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In 1820, the Hermione sinks in a storm and the men, including First Mate Joe, are cast adrift in a lifeboat. They soon realise they have been blown hundreds of miles off course, and have no way of reaching safety. As the weak and injured men begin to die, the starving survivors must ask the Delicate Questions: what are we willing to do in order to survive?

In 1880, Joe, now an old man with dementia, lives with his family.  Noticing Joe frequently steals food, his granddaughter, Perdita sets out to discover what caused his behaviour. 

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For more details, email hilary.mack@talk21.com

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Ladies at the Seaside

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A short play, about 25 minutes in length.

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Maureen and Dot meet on a trip to the Eastbourne seafront. Dot is being bullied and robbed by her daughter and son-in-law, and Maureen helps her build up the confidence to take back control of her life.
 

Published by Lazy Bee Scripts. Learn more here. 

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The Price of Firewood

 

This play was commended by the judges in the Verity Bargate Award.

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​A reporter sends a shocking bulletin from a refugee camp in a war torn country, but the government of that country is signing some very important trade agreements, and the help for the victims of violence seems very slow in coming, despite the official 'investigation'.

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Published by Lazy Bee Scripts. Learn more here.

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Sammy

 

This play won the Sussex Playwrights National Playwriting Award in 2004.

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Jenny and Mark have a young son, Sammy, who has Prader Willi syndrome, a compulsive eating disorder. Mark wanted a son desperately, but is shocked by Sammy's condition and the work it will entail. Christine and Phil next door can't have children at all, so they are constant visitors. Eighteen years of family strife in one play.

 

Published by Lazy Bee. Learn more here

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The Snow Queen

 

When the Snow Queen breaks her magic mirror, shards fly out into the world. She'll only see herself as ugly in every mirror, unless she retrieves every last shard from the hearts and eyes of men... Kay has the last two shards and the Snow Queen takes him prisoner, so Gerda must rescue her love from the queen.

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Published by Lazy Bee Scripts. Learn more here.

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Volunteers

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Brenda is running a charity shop, with the slightly addled Prue and the sight-impaired Denny. But there are changes in the charity and John Turk is keen on a new image - younger staff. Brenda has to cope with her customers, a community service offender and the new regime.

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Published by Lazy Bee Scripts. Learn more here.

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