Mr Bennet's Bride
An original period comedy, based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, exploring how the ill-matched Mr and Mrs Bennet met and married twenty five years before the novel’s opening. Pressure mounts on the young Mr Bennet to find a suitable match, but his refusal to play by the rules sets in motion a series of events that are both comic and moving.
4M/6F with 6-10 actors
The Third Act
Sue’s daughter is getting married. While Lara brims over with excitement, Sue grits her teeth and wonders how she will endure it. The wedding will force her to come to terms with her own, very different circumstances: the end of her long marriage, her estranged husband and his new partner and questions she has tried very hard to push away. Can she find the strength to face very a different future than she imagined? 2M/5F
Water Child
Jeannie and Mark are an admirable couple. Their marriage is happy and balanced, their careers in bloom. They are successful, confident, fulfilled - or so it appears. But unlike others who have effortlessly brought children into the world, they have not. Jeannie’s 40th birthday is a night planned for celebration, but events lead them to an abyss which threatens to engulf them and all they have built together. 1M/4F
When Gwen and Allie open a daring business venture to shore up their meagre retirement savings, they unwittingly open a Pandora’s box with it, threatening their investment, their reputations and even their friendship.
4F OR 3F/1M plus cameos (can be double cast)
Piece of Mind
A Hit And Miss Christmas
The Hit and Miss Theatre Company is in need a of a good Christmas show. Bums on seats, festive cheer, moral fable: A Christmas Carol! Tick. Except there’s a new artistic director in town with new ideas. And Dickens has been done every decade in living memory. The soul of the company is up for grabs as the battle wages between tried and true vs daring and new. 3M/4F