As part of the Tron 100 Festival 2017, I had the pleasure of directing the very funny The Retreat by Daisy Jo Lucas, starring Daisy Jo Lucas, Alfie Wellcoat, Euan Cuthbertson, Renee Williams, Natalie Clarke and Hazel Ann Crawford.
Tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/tour/short-attention-span-theatre
I’m producing, along with Tom Brogan, & directing, along with Tom Brogan and Jamie Lee McPherson, Short Attention Span Theatre again… This time we have…
Six new short plays:
Flensburg by Cormac Quinn
Working Title by Hannah Morton
North to Muira by Jane Sunderland
Horses With Horns by Richy Walsh
Red Label by Derek Banner
Of Sound Mind by Helen Bang
Starring:
John Love, Derek Banner, Scott Canevy, Hannah Morton, Karen Bartke, Johanna Harper, Megan Green and Calum Beaton.
A double bill of romantic comedies about love and other circumstances.
Vote For Love by Karen Barclay
Suzie Love, stands against her careerist sister, Pamela, in a by-election in order to save a community garden from a high-speed railway, but risks it all by falling in love with her hapless brother-in-law, Archie Harris.
Some People by Tom Brogan
Single parents David and Ruth find themselves at loggerheads when their children are involved in a fight and their ‘punishment’ is to serve on the school board… gradually they realise they have more in common than they first thought.
Cast
Suzie/Ruth Natalie Clarke
Archie/David Paul Kozinski
I don’t know how so much time has gone past – but our sitcom podcast Small Mercies is on episode 4!
Small Mercies: Celebrity Death
It stars –
Natalie Clark as Nora
Tom Brogan as Tony
Johanna Harper as Lynne
Paul Kozinski as Patrick
& it’s written by Karen Barclay (me) and Tom Brogan.
Photographs by Louise Henderson
Kitten Kapers is getting another outing at our 3 rd Short Attention Span Evening of short plays, on Monday 21st & Tuesday 22nd November 2016.
I’ve written a short play, Kitten Kapers, as part of a Halloween horror triple bill at Govanhill Baths, Glasgow.
tickets here!: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2592915
My play is about a man who marries a witch who used to be his cat… but it’s loosely based on the true story of Louis Wain (1860 – 1939), the Victorian cat painter whose obsession turned into madness in his later years.