Black Night

Four new short plays on dark themes by Worcestershire writers, performed - with the assistance of a 'First Base' award - by local professional actors Alison Carney and Greg Hobbs and directed for script in the hand performance by Kim Greengrass.

At The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster on October 24th 2003

KIND OF DARK by Lance Woodman

A cool tale of revenge: do loss, pain and grief ever justify murder? A brother and sister try to cope with their troubled emotions after the death of their father in an horrific car crash. Why doesn't Syl close the curtains anymore?

A DARKLING PLAIN by Coll Mealing

In a cavern in North Wales, Matt, a terrorist mercenary working to establish a New Order, meets his match in Eli. Men like him have pleased themselves for far too long, showing no regard for life and ravaging the earth. Now it is time for the earth to retaliate …

LIFE by Anne Bucknall

Life's tough for Carole – she's piling on the weight and her husband Bob's got his eye on slim Trudy, the female lead in the local production of Stepping Out.

Life's tough for Carole – she says it was Leo who killed Bob; but no one knows who Leo is!

A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN? by Martin Drury

Times are hard for Louis and Claudette in nineteenth century Paris – their café-bar is making no money and their relationship has run out of respect; but marriage is until death parts them and who's to say even death has the power to separate them ?..

Technical support: Tom Bryson and Lance Woodman

A closed competition for group members.

Extracts from the Competition Guidelines

1.      Scripts need to deal with "black" and "night" in some form or other to satisfy the umbrella title. Apart from that you have carte blanche with the material, format and style of your piece. You should call your script something other than Black Night. Black Night is the project title.

2.      Work should be in the form of duologues ie pieces for two actors: 1M, 1F. (Doubling is acceptable but needs to be indicated and shown to be workable by the writer.) Pieces should be about 20 minutes in length.