Womberang

(Soho Poly – 1979)

Set in a gynecological waiting room, where Rita Onions inspires her fellow patients to put aside their fear of doctors and stand up for themselves.

The Ghost of Daniel Lambert

(Leicester Haymarket Theatre – 1981)

Set in the years 1809 through to 1981, the ghost of Daniel Lambert (once Britain’s fattest man) unhappily watches the demolition and redevelopment of Leicester’s historic town centre in the 1960s.

Dayroom

(Croydon Warehouse Theatre – 1981)

In the dayroom of an NHS hospital at Christmas, an overworked sister finally cracks.

Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults

(Phoenix Arts Theatre – 1982)

A pantomime with a difference. Evil adults have taken over the world. Captain Christmas helps the children to overcome them.

Bazaar and Rummage

(Royal Court Theatre – 1982)

Neurotic former agoraphobic Gwenda leads a small self-help group who can’t leave their homes. As three women help out at a local bazaar, they discover that she has lied to them about the ‘evil world outside.

Groping for Words

(Croydon Warehouse – 1983)

A withering attack on the British education system, which is portrayed as just another means of class control, as seen through the eyes of characters who go to extreme lengths to hide their illiteracy.

The Great Celestial Cow

(Joint Stock, Royal Court Theatre and tour – 1984)

When Sita and her children leave India to join her husband in England, she is forced to sell her cow. She keeps the milking bucket in the hope that she will be able to buy another cow in Leicester. But England is nothing like she expected: faced with prejudice from the English and restrictions of tradition from her family, Sita clings to the dream of the cow and some sense of her own identity.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3⁄4-The Play

(Leicester Phoenix – 1984)

For more Mole see here.

Disneyland it Ain’t

(Royal Court Theatre Upstairs – 1989)

A desperate mother tries to persuade Mickey Mouse to visit her dying child.

Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes

(Library Theatre, Manchester – 1989)

Set in a future Britain where only the top echelon of society are allowed to reproduce and all children must be perfect specimens if they are to live.

The Queen and I

(Out of Joint, Vaudeville Theatre – 1994, toured Australia in the summer of 1996, entitled The Royals Down Under)

The Queen and her family are deposed by a Republican Government, and banished to a Leicester Council estate.

You, Me and Wii

(Part of the ‘Women, Power and Politics: Now’ series, Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn – 2010)

A family never leave their house. They have everything they need inside.