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Plays and productions

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Title
Notes
Company
Game Over
2023. A short play for 2 people (1M, 1F) set at a bus stop outside a hospital. This received a rehearsed reading as part of The Debut - New Writing Showcase at Worcester Swan Theatre's Studio on 27th July 2023 (part of the Worcester Fringe Festival).
Crave Arts / Worcester Swan Theatre
Back to Backs
2020. This was cancelled because of... A short, site-specific solo piece for performance at the Birmingham Back to Backs. I worked closely with visual artist Deb Catesby. This was part of the art\write Back to Back at the Back to Backs event featuring ten writers paired with ten visual artists.
art\write
Two Chairs
2020. A short video film inspired by a photograph. I worked with visual artist Deb Catesby in June and July 2020.
art\write
Unframed
2019. A short 3-hander on the process of creating a dramatic moment. It was one of eight writers' responses to The Chapel Gallery's unframed exhibition: part of the unframed writings event.
art\write
the point of light
2018. Part of Romeo and Juliet: take two. A short two-hander. One of several writers' and artists' responses to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. I worked with visual artist Sheila Farrell.
art\write
I wish you had met him
2017. A 5 min. play for 1 person. One of several writers' responses to the Portraits exhibition at the Artists Workhouse. The first performance was at the Artists Workhouse, Studley on Sunday 9th July 2017.
art\write
Thinking Inside the Box
2016. A 5 min. play for 1 person. One of several writers' responses to the Bee Box art exhibition in Bromyard which was, in turn, a response to Sylvia Plath's poem The Arrival of The Bee Box.
art\write
Cacophony
2016. A 5 min. play for 1 person. One of several writers' responses to The Needle Makers Project. The first performance was at the Artists Workhouse, Studley on Sunday 30th October 2016.
art\write
A Page Turner
2010. A 10 min. play for 4 women. Set at a bookshop author signing session, it's a tragicomic story of revenge. The first performance, directed by Gwenda Hughes, was on 4 March 2010.
The University of Birmingham
Kind of Dark v2
2007. A new version (see below) of this play was part of The Miniaturists 8 show at The Arcola Theatre 1 July 2007. Suzanne Bell directed Raquel Cassidy and Mark Arends.
The Miniaturists
The Climb
2007. A drama documentary for Radio 4's Afternoon Play about cycling and jazz. Contains original music composed by Soweto Kinch.
BBC Radio 4
Upside Down and Back to Front - audio version
2006. A commission to adapt the stage play (see below) for Radio 4's Afternoon Play slot. First broadcast 14 November 2006.
BBC Radio 4
Upside Down and Back to Front
2005. A theatre and visual arts project at The Number 8 Community Arts Centre, Pershore in February/March 2005. The project was built around this newly commissioned play using photography and storytelling as its inspirations.
artworcs
If You Could Bottle It... and Drill
2004. If You Could Bottle It... is a 15 min. 3-hander written with Andy Higgitt for artworcs' Script Slam at The Marr's Bar in Worcester, August 2004. Alexander Delamere directed. The cast was Bella Merlin, Catherine Skinner and Rob Swinton. Drill is a 10 min. monologue written for artworcs' Artburst event. Peter Sutton performed it.
artworcs
Smoked
2004. A man's last cigarette. A 5-minute audio play written with Anna Chen for the BBC Sparks Radio Drama Writers' Group. Recorded February 2004 at Bush House.
BBC Radio Drama
It's a Cook-Up
2003: A site-specific, devised/written piece for 4 (+ guest) performers. Set in a restaurant. First performances at the Hereford Courtyard Arts Centre, May 1-3, 2003. On tour in Autumn 2003. Devised by the company with written contributions from Lance Woodman.
New Theatre Works
Kind of Dark v1
2003. This 20-minute play was selected for professional script-in-hand performance by Swan Playwrights at their Black Night event. The show was on 24 October 2003 at The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster.
Swan Playwrights
Michelangelo's Snowman
2003. A 45-minute audio play about the snowman that the young Michelangelo carved for Piero de'Medici. Never produced.
n/a
Growing Old Disgracefully
2002. A 3-hander (2M, 1F), with karaoke interludes. A story of the 1960s/70s generation growing up like it says. Written under a Pearson placement at Worcester Swan Theatre. It has never been produced.
Worcester Theatre Company
Rolling News
2002-7. A piece inspired by the forms and concerns of 24 hours news coverage. After a period of development this play was commissioned by the Rep but has never been produced.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Red Skies Over the Severn
2001. A full length play. First professional production at Worcester Swan Theatre. "A remarkably compelling piece... blessed with a mix of high passion and sly humour that bodes exceptionally well for the future." Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph"
Worcester Theatre Company
The Same River and Inheritance
2001. 2 hour long plays for 7 professional actors working with community actors. Part of the Worcester Century Plays. They ran at Worcester Swan Theatre from 7-28 April 2001. "Mr Woodman writes like a poet" Birmingham Post."
Worcester Theatre Company
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie...
2000. An extract from the play was performed at the MA in Playwriting Studies performance weekend at the University of Birmingham. Directed by Norman Thackwray.
The University of Birmingham
A Man Walks into a Bar
2000. A 10-minute play for two actors. Professional rehearsed reading at Swan Playwrights' Bar Stories event. Directed by Jenny Stephens and performed by Bella Merlin and Rob Swinton.
Swan Playwrights
Youth Theatre plays
1999-2009
The Odd Boy
1998. A 90-minute community play for 46 actors. Devised by the company, script by Lance Woodman.
The Alvechurch Community Play
Ice Cold at Alec's
1998. A 90 min. comedy for five actors. Written by Pat Roberts and Lance Woodman.
Theatre Unlimited
Tea and Empathy
1997. A short monologue. A woman makes a new friend and begins to assert herself. Read by Susan Jameson, directed by Mark Babych. Part of the Worcester Swan Theatre's Armchair Theatre event.
Swan Playwrights
Colin, Joyce and Davy
1997. A short extract from a longer play. Rehearsed reading as part of the "Free Theatre", project (Worcester, UK)
Swan Playwrights
Circus Play
1996-7. A 90-min. tragicomedy for 6 actors. Refugees hide in a strange circus, but there's an accident and the past begins to catch up. Rehearsed readings at Birmingham Rep and Worcester Swan as part of the Stagecoach! festival.
Stagecoach!
Early plays
1992-96
Theatre Unlimited

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