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Monday 3 June, 7.30pm - CRUSADER by Jim Mannering
‘Crusader’ is a play about a young man called Sean whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to radical and dangerous action. The...

Caleb Estes
May 30, 20191 min read
Deadline Date for competition: 3 June
There is no Player Playwright reading Monday 27 May because of the Bank Holiday So why not make good use of the time crafting your entry...

Caleb Estes
May 25, 20191 min read
Monday 20 May: BOBBY DAZZLER by E.E. Sheehan
Bobby Dazzler is a stage play, running time around 75 minutes. It's a darkly comic tale following the adventures of a raging narcissist...

Caleb Estes
May 16, 20191 min read


Monday 13 May, 7.30pm: Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran go back to their PP roots
Monday 13 May - A RARE TREAT & NOT TO BE MISSED Nearly half a century ago Marks and Gran started writing together at Player Playwrights....

Caleb Estes
May 5, 20191 min read
Monday 29 April: Type on Paper by Adam Highland
Monday 29 April with: Type on Paper by Adam Highland Type On Paper is a play within a play, performed only in the imagination of its...

Caleb Estes
Apr 19, 20191 min read
Monday 15 April See Me Jimmy by Brian Lyons
See me, Jimmy is a one-person play focusing on the development of a white working class male known simply as Jimmy. It follows his...

Caleb Estes
Apr 9, 20191 min read
Monday 8 April - Ron and Dark Arts by Ian Reade
Ron and Dark Arts by Ian Reade (double bill of short plays) Dark Art is a one act play which begins in the confused aftermath of a...

Caleb Estes
Apr 4, 20191 min read
Monday 1 April - Call It Vienna by Michael Barry
During the Second World War, our understanding of the depths to which humanity can sink was pushed down to a new and terrible abyss. Two...

Caleb Estes
Mar 30, 20191 min read
Monday 25 March: The Boss by Charles Palliser
THE BOSS is a black farce set in real-time. It takes place over one evening in the office of a paranoid dictator during which the...

Caleb Estes
Mar 19, 20191 min read
Monday 18 March - The Custom of the Sea by Jim Mannering
The final instalment in Jim Mannering’s trilogy of twisted thrillers. We have peaked through the floorboards into the basement of a group...

Caleb Estes
Mar 15, 20191 min read
Monday 11 March - Comedy writing: Talk with Dave Cohen
An evening with Dave Cohen, comedian, founder member of the Comedy Store Players with Mike Myers and Paul Merton and now one of the top...

Caleb Estes
Mar 9, 20191 min read
The Times They Are A Changin' - The winning entries
Congratulations to the winners of our first Player Playwright short play contest of 2019. The entry judged to be best the audience was...

Caleb Estes
Mar 6, 20191 min read
Monday 4 March - Competition finale: The Times They Are A Changin'
The first Player Playwright short play contest of the year, with six great new works from our Members, all related, in some way, to the...

Caleb Estes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
Monday 25 February - Smothered by Marc Blake
Adam’s mother has had a fall. Returning from Canada with his new bride, Adam discovers that she has lost none of her ways and wiles....

Caleb Estes
Feb 20, 20191 min read
The Times They REALLY Are A Changin'
The deadline for entries in the upcoming Player Playwrights short play contest has been extended to 25th February, so get scribbling! The...

Caleb Estes
Feb 15, 20191 min read
Monday 18 February - Travelers by David Conway
Travelers by David Conway Travelers is about Irish tinkers, or travelers. Molly, and her husband Johnny are quarrelling about the fate of...

Caleb Estes
Feb 13, 20191 min read
Monday 11 February - Jericho Mills
Jericho Mills by Mary Conway Jericho Mills is a young man riding high. At only 32 he has transcended his modest family background to...

Caleb Estes
Feb 7, 20191 min read
Deadline looming on latest Player Playwright short play contest
Time is running out to get in your entry The theme of our latest short play contest is The Times Are A-Changin' The deadline for entries...

Caleb Estes
Feb 7, 20191 min read
Monday 4 February - Jeeves and the Song of Songs
Jeeves and the Song of Songs by Francis Beckett Bertie toddles happily along to his old friend Revd “Beefy” Bingham’s East End concert,...

Caleb Estes
Feb 2, 20191 min read
Monday 28 January - Going Going Going
Going Going Going by Peter Thompson Radio play At a school auction a 6th former puts her grandfather’s services as a barrister up for...

Caleb Estes
Jan 26, 20191 min read
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