The Swan Playwrights

Writing for Performance

WORCESTERSHIRE WISE

 

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Three plays about Worcestershire people and places showing their ways and their wisdom.

 

WORCESTER

 

Worcester Past Ties by Sandra Booth

 

You can never escape from the past.

 

Christine has rebuilt her life and is looking for new premises for her pastie business.  Her mother, Molly, wants to retire and travel with her around the world.  Then they get an unexpected visitor from the past...

 

Molly – Lynn Ravenhill

Christine – Sue Downing

Zoe – Jennifer Taylor

 

 

BROMSGROVE

 

Lost Content by Martin Drury

 

Energy cannot be destroyed, but love can go wrong.

 

Intense feelings from the 1880s involving the poet A. E .Housman, his friend Moses Jackson and his father Edward concentrated on family home Perry Hall are released as the modern day hotel becomes part of Bromsgrove School in March 2006. 

 

Alfred – Rob Leetham

Moses – Daniel Hawthorne

Edward – Steve Downing

 

 

KIDDERMINSTER

 

Look, No Hands by Sue Downing

 

Just how natural is Mother Nature when she takes your child away?

 

When Tanya abandons the circus for a more conventional lifestyle, she finds conflicting views of motherhood too much to handle.  Does she listen to her peers or trust the animals she knows so well?

 

Tanya – Keeley Harker

Janet/Alison/Young Woman – Louise Fulwell

Darren/Trev – Phil Rea