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Please contact Jane if you would like to read any of these plays with the view to production:

janelockyerw@yahoo.co.uk

                      




PING

A man and a woman meet on a bench on Parliament Hill.

'Ping' was professionally performed at 'Scripts Live' CAA Theatre Covent Garden,London.


CHARACTERS:

OLD MAN - refined, smart, curious
YOUNGER WOMAN - pensive, sense of humour, attractive.

SET: A bench on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath

TIME: Present day

ABOUT:

A WOMAN saunters over to a seat on the top of Parliament Hill Fields, Hampstead Heath, and sits. The seat is placed so that it overlooks London. Warmly clad for the outdoors, she takes out of her handbag a rubber band and starts playing with it, then with one arm raised she snaps the band back and forth. An elderly man approaches. She drops the band onto the ground by mistake and he picks it up and gives it to her before sitting a small distance away from her on the same seat. A conversation strikes up. He is intrigued. What absorbs this woman's interest? And why the rubber band?


   *

                                  

THE HAGGIS THAT WENT WALKIES  
   An hilarious romp for Burns Night

'On Burns night Haggis is on the menu. But where is it?'

CHARACTERS:

Bran: Owner of McDuckley Cstle- middle aged/elderly. vague

Ena: His wife - similar age: intolerant, bossy

Fenella: Younger, femme fatale, glamorous.
Setting: The Hall in fictitious McDuckley Castle, Scotland. Present day.
.

  Runnig time -  Aprox. 20 minutes

                                    *   

                                                                                                                                     Visions 

                                                          When all is not what it seems

                                                             One set/ sitting room  Present day.                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                            CHARACTERS:

                                                                                                                              Lilith ............. An elderly woman

                                                                                                                              Charles the First 

                                                                                                                             A Victorian housemaid (non speaking.)

                                                                                                                            Brenda ..................Warden of Care Home

                                                                                                                           Time: Present day

                                                                                                                           Setting: A bungalow in sheltered accommodation

                                                                                                                         ABOUT:

                                                                                                                        This short one act play addresses the plight of Lilith who suffers from 

                                                                                                                        Charles Bonnet Syndrome (visual hallucinations affecting some people

                                                                                                                       with eye disorders.) First she sees and has a conversation with Charles the First,

                                                                                                                        and then a Victorian housemaid. These imaginings escalate until finally, desperate

                                                                                                                       for help she alerts the warden of the home who pays her a visit. And there lies

                                                                                                                       the twist in the tail.

                                                                                                                   Running time: very approx. 15 mins.


                                                                                                                            FALLS THE SHADOW 

                                                                   Present day. Three scenes / one simple set/ sitting room                                                         

                                                                                                                      'Two strangers, two fears, one love.'

                                                                                                                    CHARACTERS:

                                                                                                                         Kate:  Twenties. Direct, pleasant, perceptive

                                                                                                                        Mr Brown:  Sixties/seventies. Refined, charming, mysterious

                                                                                                                        Lily:   Sixties. Mr Brown's housekeeper. Jolly, warm, loyal.

                                                                                                                             Time: Year 2000 Running time approx 15 - 20 mins

                                                                                                                                                                 *                                                                                                                                                                                                       TO MY OWN GODS I GO

             Present day. Two scenes. One set

                                                              After leading a secular life Charles decides to take Holy Orders. He seeks spiritual guidance

 from his local priest and to whom he is attracted. On the eve of Charles ordination, Grayson tell him

that he is to be married. This acts as a catalyst as Grayson is now forced to confront his feelings.

In the second scene Charles has become a curate in a parish, carrying out in a somewhat perfunctory 

manner, his ecclesiastical duties. It is a visit from a young woman parishioner seeking his

advice who inadvertently gives Charles the help he needs in order to face his demons

and come to terms with his sexuality.

for Grayson.

CHARACTERS:

Charles. 40's. About to be ordained into the Anglican Church.

Grayson: 50's. Parish priest & adviser to Charles.

Gail: 30's. Young wife, mother and parishioner. 

Approx. time: 25 mins

                                                                                                                                                                                          


                                                                     

                                  

                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                     

                   

                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   




   

       

 After leading a secular life, Charles, decides to take Holy Orders. He seeks spiritual guidance fro Grayson, his local priest and to whom he is attracted. On the eve of Charles' ordination, Grayson tells him that he is to be married. This acts as a catalyst, as Charles is now forced to confront his feelings for Grayson.

 In the second scene, Charles has become a curate in a parish, carrying out, in a somewhat perfunctory manner, his ecclesiastical duties. It is the visit from a young, woman parishioner seeking advice, who inadvertently gives Charles the help and comfort that he needs in order to face his demons and come to terms with his sexuality.

                                                                                   

Please contact Jane if you would like to read any of these plays with the view to production:

janelockyerw@yahoo.co.uk