Category Archives: plays

Hannah Vincent’s play wins BBC Audio Award

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Clare Spencer

Hannah Vincent’s radio play Come to Grief has won an award for Best Drama in the Adaptation category in the 2015 BBC Audio Awards, announced on 1st February. The judging panel said that the script, adapted from Hannah’s own stage play, … Continue reading →

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Hannah Vincent’s debut novel is published

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Clare Spencer

I am pleased to announce that my debut novel Alarm Girl is published in August 2014.  The novel is set in South Africa and is partly narrated by eleven-year old Indy, who is visiting her father there for the first … Continue reading →

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‘Tweet’ by Joanne Reardon Lloyd

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Clare Spencer

Found Plays was part of the Royal Court’s ‘Open Court’ season which ran throughout June and July this year, taking mini plays developed from overheard conversations, images, magazine stories and putting them on the theatre’s website or scattering them all … Continue reading →

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Andrew Garvin contributes to a new play, ‘The Trackers’

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Clare Spencer

Andrew Garvin has contributed to a performance of the satyric play by Sophocles – entitled The Trackers. He co-operated on the English version of the play, which is contained in the book and programme for this performance. The performance of the play was generated … Continue reading →

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Ida and Louise – a radio commission for Jane Purcell

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Clare Spencer

I’ve just been commissioned to write a five part Woman’s Hour Drama based on the lives of Ida and Louise Cook.   Both were avid opera lovers and during their travels to Europe in the 1930s became aware of the persecution … Continue reading →

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Writing for Site-Specific Theatre

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Jules Horne

I’d always wanted to collaborate on a site-specific piece, and when Nutshell’s director Kate Nelson asked me to write a play for her allotment for the Edinburgh Fringe, I jumped. Partly in excitement, partly in terror. Terror because we’d be … Continue reading →

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Triplet: Michael W. Thomas

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Clare Spencer

My writing and publication record defines me principally as a fiction-writer and poet.  In the last couple of years, however, I have become increasingly interested in writing drama.  In the context of the OU, this may well have been through … Continue reading →

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All-Action Radio Road Movie

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jules Horne

The story of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the inventor of the pedal cycle, is well known in Dumfriesshire, but he doesn’t seem to get due credit elsewhere. Time, I thought, to put the record straight, and give him his own radio play.  … Continue reading →

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Jane Purcell: BBC Radio 4 play commission

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Clare Spencer

The way that BBC Radio 4 works is that you send in an idea, jumping through about 356 hoops while you do so.  Then you wait and wait and at some point you might hear that your idea has gotten … Continue reading →

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Playing with words and music

Posted on February 11, 2011 by admin

  Write a play with songs, for a cast of four actor-musicians – that was the brief from Penrith’s rural touring company, Quondam. I’d only written one song lyric in my life, and loved it! So I was kicking keen … Continue reading →

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