Tuesday, 12 November 2019
Upcoming Title by Madeleine Merrywell
A woman falls helplessly in love and is catapulted into a world built around the one hope: of somehow securing her future with Max Reverell.
Monday, 11 November 2019
Upcoming title
Two strangers meet over coffee and find love.
Upcoming Title
A spirited girl from Idaho chases down the man of her dreams.
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
New Play (Folk themed/Dialect preservation)
Maddie (Two-act play) (Duologue)
Set in the 1920's as a young woman arrives for an interview at a large house in Oxford and waylays proceedings with her unusual and rather confident persona.
Running time: Approx 2 hours
Dialect Words (West Oxfordshire)
Roomthy - large. 'Their new house is summot to take in 'n all. Five rooms and every one as roomthy as the other!'
Upsides wi' - to get even with. To extract revenge. 'I'll be upsides wi' the lot of ye! And you just see if I don't!'
Dialect Words (West Oxfordshire)
Boords - to foretell. 'I dwunt like the look a the skies yonder. It boords rain.'
Pickid - thin and pale. 'You must take a care of your young wife. She looks awful pickid, she does.'
Dialect Words (West Oxfordshire)
Dabster - a clever workman. 'He's a dabster at his woodwork, an he just!'
Umfiddlin - Not feeling well.
'I be umfiddlin, more's the pity.'
Friday, 8 March 2019
Three things Boris Johnson wished he'd done in Brussels the last time he was there.
Boris Johnson's Latest Weirdest Dream (Part Nine)
Photo by Michael D Beckwith on Unsplash
In Boris Johnson's latest, weirdest dream, what did the arch, forbidding (almost monkish) figure of one Martin Selmayr do to him?
1. Made him take his tea with goat's milk half way up a glacier?
2. Robbed him of the keys to Brexit and dropped them to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
3. Arraigned him in the European Courts of Justice on a charge of 'talking perfect bollocks?'
Boris Johnsonson's Latest Weirdest Dream (Part Eight)
Photo by Vadim Sherbakov on Unsplash
In Boris Johnson's latest, weirdest dream what did the arch, forbidding (almost monkish) figure of one Martin Selmayr do to him?
1. Made him swim the Hellespont but in a pair of grey flannel shorts?
2. Dropped him from a cloud onto the plains of Thessaly?
3. Kept him in the sod loft of a shepherd's hut for 14 years after Brexit?
Boris Johnson's Latest Weirdest Dream (Part Seven)
Photo by Euan Carmichael on Unsplash
In Boris Johnson's latest, weirdest dream what did the arch, forbidding (almost monkish) figure of one Martin Selmayr do to him?
1. Strapped him to a pony in the wilds of Umbria - then flung him off a crag?
2. Lit all the candles in his house when he was fast asleep?
3. Laid bare his monk's cowl to reveal a suppurating rash?
Boris Johnson's Latest Weirdest Dream (Part Six)
Photo by Michael D Beckwith on Unsplash
In Boris Johnson's latest, weirdest dream what did the arch, forbidding (almost monkish) figure of one Martin Selmayr do to him?
1. Emerged there from the darkness of a ship's hold as a foul, rapacious man-bat thing chasing him the whole length of the harbourside until he'd screamed his fill?
2. Slashed at his vermilion coloured braces with a greasy knife?
3. Removed his tonsils in the darkness of a train below the Alps?
Boris Johnson's Latest Weirdest Dream (Part Five)
Photo by Tom Roberts on Unsplash
In Boris Johnson's latest, weirdest dream what did the arch, forbidding (almost monkish) figure of one Martin Selmayr do to him?
1. Made him give a speech to conference praising Clement Atlee.
2. Bobbed and wrestled with him over a Croatian waterfall?
3. Fed him to Cerberus in front of Ollie Robbins and his mates?
Boris Johnson's Latest Weirdest Dream (Part Four)
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
In Boris Johnson's latest, weirdest dream what did the arch, forbidding (almost monkish) figure of one Martin Selmayr do to him?
1. Dropped him down a well with only Peter Bone for company?
2. Chased him up the side of Mont Emilius and from his leaky marrow made a tallow lamp of sorts?
3. Made him drive a Trabbi through a Windsor mall?
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Maddie (Two-act play) (Duologue) Set in the 1920's as a young woman arrives for an interview at a large house in Oxford and waylays...
