STAGE PLAY

VICTORY – AN ISLAND TALE

An adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s 1915 novel. The philosophical Axel Heyst commits two acts of kindness: one of which leads to a kind of happiness, the other to the disastrous invasion of his deliberate isolation.

Seeking a producer.

NOVELS

PROSPECT AVENUE

A female Charlie Chaplin.

Young Izzy Bailey is in flight from her past. Imaginative and ambitious, she becomes a music hall success. When an infatuation plunges her into heartbreak, and leads to professional betrayal, she flees to the new world where she has to hide by reinventing herself. Haunted by fatal fires, bereft at losing her new family, yet determined to succeed, her flair for comedy pivots her west to a small town called Hollywood.

Status: Seeking an agent and publisher.

INTO THE ROSE GARDEN

Who hasn’t wondered what their life would be like if they had made different decisions? One woman finds out. Sliding Doors meets Ulysses.

Status: Seeking an agent and publisher.

Monologues

TALES OF GRATITUDE

Two fifteen minute monologues – KISSED and RANSOM – each from a young woman who has been rescued, with different experiences to relate.

RADIO PLAY

FLAMES

Two ex-lovers meet unexpectedly during a protest march gone badly wrong, only to discover that he is now the leader of an extreme right-wing movement and she has embraced her Muslim heritage. (Also available as a film screenplay)

SHORT STORIES

THREE SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/ThreSeco1181.shtml

TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/WithAgai1222.shtml

FINALIST, spring 2021, WAWA