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ALICE JOSEPHS
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Commercial Row For The Public Good Swimming Naked Unmarrying Kind, TheCommercial Row
Synopsis:
London lawyer Hugo and accountant David are on a roll. They're building up, by hook or by crook, a property empire from small beginnings. Even the local bar is within their sights. It's all going according to plan - the properties, the dosh, the bank loans, the legal niceties including bank accounts in the name of Monica, David's girl friend - if only she knew. Hugo's beautiful French civil servant girl friend, Annick, still hopes Hugo will turn out to be the man of her dreams, a chivalrous English Hugh-Grant type. Little does she know. But now hit man Max wants to become his own boss in the global market place, David loses his mobile phone and a seemingly cowardly small-time property-owning pensioner turns out to be one adversary too many, things will never be the same again. As Jan the barman observes to the audience, it's a 21st century tale but, with the wheel of fate turning like the London Eye, how will it all end?
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Written January - April 2007. Reached the second round of the Verity Bargate Award 2007. aka Briefcase Encounter - A Financial Fantasy
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Comedy Drama
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Male: 5 Female: 2 Other: -
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Synopsis:
'Locked up for life through no fault of her own. Is she on your family tree?' A healthy patient harbours a deadly disease. Over sixty years later, with a Victorian mental asylum set for demolition, an anonymous email sent from a local library draws five women together: The family tree researcher, the archivist, the wannabe journalist, the doctor and the mystery email sender all on a genealogical detective trail. Inspired by a BBC investigation, 'For The Public Good' explores the hidden tragedy behind draconian measures to protect the nation's health.
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One-act play with parts for five versatile female Actors playing both women And men.
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Barons Court Theatre, London 2008
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First Draft Theatre Company
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Play/Drama One act
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Top of PageSwimming Naked
Synopsis:
First there was Charles Ponzi, then Bernie Madoff, now there's Paul Stone ... Paul, Zoe and Amanda think they're victims of the Credit Crunch - they got found out! 'It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.' Warren Buffett, billionaire investor '... with fraud, dropped trousers, pizza delivery boy disguises and money-grabbing temptresses on the bill, it could well be hard to tell fact from fiction . . .' Emma Keens, City AM March 31 2009. 'Ponzi-scheming Paul Stone, who fleeces his customers and friends and gets away with it until, to paraphrase Warren Buffett, the economic tide goes out and he emerges in the altogether" Jim Armitage, London Evening Standard, April 3 2009. http://www.swimmingnaked.webs.com
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Barons Court Theatre, London 2009
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RealDeal Theatre
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Genre:
farce One act
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: 1m
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Top of PageUnmarrying Kind, The
Synopsis:
Celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, Jake and Penelope have flown in from the US to their English seaside house with two grown-up children and a baby grandchild in tow. But when American Jake wakes up to find a note on the pillow where his English-born wife should be, the family's transatlantic idyll collapses to reveal a more complex and bewildering reality. . .
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Written in Spring/Summer 2012. Three male American roles - two for males aged in their 60s, one for male aged late 20s/early 30s. One male UK role for male in his 60s. One female American role for female in her late thirties/ early forties. One female UK role for female in her early 20s.
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