Christmas with the Watsons
PLAYS
No Fat Juliets - a co-production between The Dukes, Lancaster, The Oldham Coliseum and Ladybrain productions.
A warm-hearted, laugh outloud comedy full of Northern spirit, songs and snogs with a lighthearted sideswipe at the pressures on women to conform to a physical ideal. Fun, fabulous and a little bit political!
For Demi-Paradise Productions at Lancaster Castle -
Blood Red Roses
"The dark history of Lancaster Castle in words and music."
Christmas with the Watsons
"A Sherlock Holmes house party"
Wild as The White Waves - The Life and Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay - Edinburgh Festival,Tour and Adventures in Poetry for BBC Radio 4
"My childhood was so extraordinarily happy – full of bayberry bushes and queen-of-the-meadow. Cranberries too. I remember a swamp of cranberries that made a shortcut to the railroad station. It was down across that swamp my father went when my mother told him to go and not come back. Or maybe she said he might come back if he would do better. But whoever does better?"
For Quondam Arts - Unruly Women - National Tour
The Lancashire Industrial riots led to the imprisonment and arrest of dozens of handloom weavers, among them a few women, who, after a farce of a trial, were sentenced to transportation and shipped to Australia. Theirs is a story of universal relevance, of ordinary people suffering through history at the hands of a government which doesn’t listen, doesn’t see and, ultimately, doesn’t care.
"The government says it's progress
The price we have to pay.
For England's tomorrow
We must give our today.
And the villages die
And the handlooms are still
And we bury our children
In the shadow of the mill
And I try to see a future
But I don't know how
I was born and bred a weaver
But what am I fit for now?"
For Mikron Theatre Co - Hell and High Water - 40th Anniversary Waterways Tour
In 1761 there were two earthquakes in London, a transit of Venus was observed in 120 locations around the world, George the Third was crowned King and, on July 17th, the first boatload of coals was borne smoothly along the Barton Aqueduct over the River Irwell on the Bridgewater Canal - the engineering marvel that was the wonder of its age.
"Gentlemen, we are dealing with water, and water, like a giant, is only safe when laid on its back. It has to be tamed and, gentlemen, I have found a way to tame it."
Beyond Measure - a one woman verse monologue - Lancaster Season of Shakespeare
At the end of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, what happens to Isabella?
“What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine.”
What made him think that I would be just fine
With that? How could he be so sure of me?
Imagine for a minute, if you can,
What power to be a duke, to be a man.
No Fat Juliets - a co-production between The Dukes, Lancaster, The Oldham Coliseum and Ladybrain productions.
A warm-hearted, laugh outloud comedy full of Northern spirit, songs and snogs with a lighthearted sideswipe at the pressures on women to conform to a physical ideal. Fun, fabulous and a little bit political!
For Demi-Paradise Productions at Lancaster Castle -
Blood Red Roses
"The dark history of Lancaster Castle in words and music."
Christmas with the Watsons
"A Sherlock Holmes house party"
Wild as The White Waves - The Life and Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay - Edinburgh Festival,Tour and Adventures in Poetry for BBC Radio 4
"My childhood was so extraordinarily happy – full of bayberry bushes and queen-of-the-meadow. Cranberries too. I remember a swamp of cranberries that made a shortcut to the railroad station. It was down across that swamp my father went when my mother told him to go and not come back. Or maybe she said he might come back if he would do better. But whoever does better?"
For Quondam Arts - Unruly Women - National Tour
The Lancashire Industrial riots led to the imprisonment and arrest of dozens of handloom weavers, among them a few women, who, after a farce of a trial, were sentenced to transportation and shipped to Australia. Theirs is a story of universal relevance, of ordinary people suffering through history at the hands of a government which doesn’t listen, doesn’t see and, ultimately, doesn’t care.
"The government says it's progress
The price we have to pay.
For England's tomorrow
We must give our today.
And the villages die
And the handlooms are still
And we bury our children
In the shadow of the mill
And I try to see a future
But I don't know how
I was born and bred a weaver
But what am I fit for now?"
For Mikron Theatre Co - Hell and High Water - 40th Anniversary Waterways Tour
In 1761 there were two earthquakes in London, a transit of Venus was observed in 120 locations around the world, George the Third was crowned King and, on July 17th, the first boatload of coals was borne smoothly along the Barton Aqueduct over the River Irwell on the Bridgewater Canal - the engineering marvel that was the wonder of its age.
"Gentlemen, we are dealing with water, and water, like a giant, is only safe when laid on its back. It has to be tamed and, gentlemen, I have found a way to tame it."
Beyond Measure - a one woman verse monologue - Lancaster Season of Shakespeare
At the end of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, what happens to Isabella?
“What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine.”
What made him think that I would be just fine
With that? How could he be so sure of me?
Imagine for a minute, if you can,
What power to be a duke, to be a man.
No Fat Juliets