The Playwrights Publishing Company
“Bill" Monologue by Tony Breeze for 1 mature female ISBN 1872758037 £3.00 Royalties £15pp
An old lady brings on a tray of tea for herself and her husband, Bill, who is upstairs changing from his work clothes. She talks to herself about all the memories that the house holds for them and their children who have now flown the nest ... but Bill never appears and we finally realise the extent of her loneliness
"Affairs of State" Comedy by Peter D'Aguilar 2m & 3f ISBN 9781873130551 £4.00 each Royalties £25pp
When a top female member of Parliament is told by her Prime Minister that she will have to do something about her gadfly hussband, she has a prioblem. Things are made worse by the attentions of a nosey newspaper reporter but the MP sorts it all out in the end in her own sweet way.
“Flight Zero One” Drama by Tony Breeze 7f & 5m ISBN 1872758215 £4.00 Royalties £25pp
A small plane has crash-landed in a blizzard in the middle of the Canadian Rockies and its passengers have to spend the night in a disused fur-trappers cabin. They are all on their somewhere: a pregnant young woman and her partner on their way to see a specialist; a frail old man and his wife on their way to see their grandchildren; a doting mother and her precocious daughter on their way to a TV audition; a grumpy businessman on his way to his next deal and two police officers on their way to court with their Red Indian prisoner.
“When Robots Discovered Sex” Comedy by Ken Blakemore 2f & 2m & Voices ISBN 9781873130490 £4.00 Royalties £25pp
Hilarious comedy set in the future when robots do everything in the house except what comes naturally to humans ... then things begin to get complicated when the humans are away and the robots discover just what makes the world go round
“Treseder’s Seeds” Drama by Christine Woolf 6f 1-873130-21-X £4.00 each Royalties £25pp
Set in 1843 on board the sailing ship, The Westminster, bound for New Zealand we see the story of four women from different backgrounds travelling from their native West Country to start a new life. Their challenge is symbolised by the seeds, which they carry to plant in the new country. This play won the 2001 National W.I. Play Writing Competition for Best-Written Play and Outstanding Production and was chosen from sixty-one entries.
“Cathy’s Kitchen” Comedy Drama Lynn Howes 3 females ISBN 1-873130-23-6 £4.00 each Royalties £25pp
Set in the present in the back kitchen of a village bakery we are introduced via witty dialogue to the lives of three women – a young one who works there, another who used to but is now heavily pregnant and Cathy herself who is the owner and who reveals to the other two something about her that they never knew.
"One Without Shame" Wartime Drama by James Brockbank 4m ISBN 9781873130483 £4.00each Royalties £25pp
During the First World war a young soldier is ordered to join a firing squad to execute one of his comrades who is suffering from shell-shock and he refuses to do it.
