T4-2
A 10 minute play by Paul Ekert
One male & one female
Minimal set and/or props
Nigel is having a bad day. Even in the year 2057 it's possible to have a crap job, a broken marriage and an interfering mother. But is it possible to find a soul mate in a top of the range Android? An unexpected 'Happy Divorce Day' present from Nigel's mother leads him to question the meaning of being alive!
This play was performed at the Fairy Dust Arts night in Oxford in December 2011 by Liz Mente Bishop and ????
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Man With A Plan
A 10 minute monologue by Paul Ekert
One male role
Minimal set and/or props
Dan is in love. Truly in love. With a woman who doesn't know he's alive. But Dan isn't the sort of man to let a detail like that get in his way.
This play was performed by Alex Babic at that Ovation Theatre awards where it one Judges choice and came second in the audience vote.
Alex received an honoury mention for Best Actor.
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Holding On
A 10 minute play by Paul Ekert
Two male roles
Minimal set and/or props
A playwright gets a bad review and decides to end it all in the cold waters of an isolated and lonely canal. At least it he thought it was isolated and lonely until a dog walker happens on him and both men have to figure out what they really want from the day...
This play was performed in a number of venues, most recently at the Steeple Aston Village Hall by Alan Wight and Carl Tomlinson.
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Circle of Truth
A one act play by Paul Ekert
Two male roles
Minimal set and/or props (20 mins)
Peter is an award winning author with few sales to his name. Simon is a pulp writer with runaway hits for every book he writes.
Peter hates Simon and Simon despises Peter, and so it's only fitting that during the last moments of Peters life, just a he decides to kill himself, these two battle it out one last time...
This play was performed at the
Queen Mother Theatre in Hitchin towards the end of April 2007.
A video of this play can be seen by clicking the Recorded Performances tab above.
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Reasons to Rhyme
A one act play by Paul Ekert
Three male roles
(one dressed as a female)
Bar room set with minimal props (30 mins)
Danny is a hard man. An enforcer for a local drug lord. But Danny has found love in the shape of a bar hostess called Tanya. Love doesn't belong in his world. Just pain, fear and hate, and now Danny needs to reconcile the two worlds he lives in, or die in both.
Reasons to Rhyme; love and madness dancing a deadly game of lopsided relationships and bitter realities...
This play was performed by Pilotlight Theatre in the Half Moon Pub, Herne Hill, London in October 2009 as part of their New Writers night.
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Being Dead
A 10 minute play by Paul Ekert
Two male roles
One female role
Mr Smith finds himself dead and Blueberry the undertaker can see him. His wife can't though, in fact she seems to have almost forgotten about him as she finds comfort in the arms of her tennis coach.
Who knew Being Dead could be just the start of a problem.
This play was performed by Rio Fanning, Richard Ward and Hestor Lott at the Friends Meeting house in November 2011.
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