Eat My Leek playscripts: Production rights
Contact Carolyn at adrian99@tpg.com.au if you are interested in the production of any of these scripts. Download play application form here:
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Full-length Plays
Keeping Mum
5 female 1 male
minimal set
A comedy which shows something of the bizarre yet workable dynamic of a mother's group with its mix of women whoreally share nothing in common apart from the fact that they've all produced babies round the same time of the year. It says something real about Motherhood - the trials and the joy. The play is about Felicity, husband Dave, and her Mum’s group – Nicole, Jane, and Cassie - who all tentatively get on and new-comer, Liz. Conflicts develop when Jane’s life begins unraveling at the same time as Liz - pregnant, eager and raring to go - joins the group. Tension builds at subsequent Mums’ groups and comes to a head at Jane’s birthday party for her son Winston which is a thorough disaster. Lines are drawn and Felicity, Jane, Nicole and Cassie struggle with their desire to help each other out - Jane’s marriage is dissolving and Liz is due any day.
Joint Award winner - Macintyre Writers 2009
“Your instincts are spot on. There’s nothing like writing for a specific sub-culture and one as large and potentially funny as that of the baby bearing late 20’s and early 30’s. ‘Keeping Mum’ taps straight into that funny bone. Well done on getting it as right as you did.”
Peter Matheson, Freelance Dramaturg, Playlab
Playreading Geelong Repertory 2009
5 female 1 male
minimal set
A comedy which shows something of the bizarre yet workable dynamic of a mother's group with its mix of women whoreally share nothing in common apart from the fact that they've all produced babies round the same time of the year. It says something real about Motherhood - the trials and the joy. The play is about Felicity, husband Dave, and her Mum’s group – Nicole, Jane, and Cassie - who all tentatively get on and new-comer, Liz. Conflicts develop when Jane’s life begins unraveling at the same time as Liz - pregnant, eager and raring to go - joins the group. Tension builds at subsequent Mums’ groups and comes to a head at Jane’s birthday party for her son Winston which is a thorough disaster. Lines are drawn and Felicity, Jane, Nicole and Cassie struggle with their desire to help each other out - Jane’s marriage is dissolving and Liz is due any day.
Joint Award winner - Macintyre Writers 2009
“Your instincts are spot on. There’s nothing like writing for a specific sub-culture and one as large and potentially funny as that of the baby bearing late 20’s and early 30’s. ‘Keeping Mum’ taps straight into that funny bone. Well done on getting it as right as you did.”
Peter Matheson, Freelance Dramaturg, Playlab
Playreading Geelong Repertory 2009
UCAP - [Image Vigour Graphics]
Up Close and Physical – Life is a Cabernet
Chorus of 15 - 20 singers, small group numbers and solos.
A sparkling script of song, dance and comedy served up on a cabaret platter of saucy tit-bits. Rollick through the Gourmet Bloaters' dreams with the scintillating Muses as they traverse the enduring battles we have with food and fitness. This sassy show was produced by Performing Arts Goondiwindi and premiered at the Goondiwindi Cultural Centre to a full house in August 2009, as part of Gourmet in Gundy. Directed by Pauline Clyne.
Chorus of 15 - 20 singers, small group numbers and solos.
A sparkling script of song, dance and comedy served up on a cabaret platter of saucy tit-bits. Rollick through the Gourmet Bloaters' dreams with the scintillating Muses as they traverse the enduring battles we have with food and fitness. This sassy show was produced by Performing Arts Goondiwindi and premiered at the Goondiwindi Cultural Centre to a full house in August 2009, as part of Gourmet in Gundy. Directed by Pauline Clyne.
Love and Lycra Premiere 2009 [Image - Vigour Graphics]
Love and Lycra
4 female
One-act play about an over-zealous personal trainer and her lovelorn layabout charges who find what they need at the bottom of a bottle in the middle of a gym. Premiered 2009, Goondiwindi Performing Arts at the Goondiwindi Cultural Centre. Winner People's Choice Award, Favourite Shorts 2010, Armidale Playhouse: Season 2.
Praise for 'Love and Lycra' "Four great roles for women who are funny, flawed and fabulous”
- Lisa Ward, Director
4 female
One-act play about an over-zealous personal trainer and her lovelorn layabout charges who find what they need at the bottom of a bottle in the middle of a gym. Premiered 2009, Goondiwindi Performing Arts at the Goondiwindi Cultural Centre. Winner People's Choice Award, Favourite Shorts 2010, Armidale Playhouse: Season 2.
Praise for 'Love and Lycra' "Four great roles for women who are funny, flawed and fabulous”
- Lisa Ward, Director
Party Plan (new!)
4 females
Edwina begrudgingly attends her friend's party plan afternoon with bizarre consequences.
Edwina begrudgingly attends her friend's party plan afternoon with bizarre consequences.
Lights Up!
Work in progress
6 male 6 female Lights Up! is the comic saga of the Wobbly Boot Theatre Company . The WB Theatre company is a small town performing arts group who, for the first time ever, secure themselves an Arts grant and decide to get big time director Archie Quartermaine in to direct their annual production of 'Not Without My Fanny!' with hilarious consequences. Featuring the music of Motown, 'Lights Up!' is a comedy about everyone’s desire for validity – Victoria the leading lady has the (twenty) seven year itch and wants someone to scratch it, Nigel is overlooked as leading man but still yearns for respect as a performer and the Wobbly Boot Theatre Company strives to be taken seriously, despite being ludicrous.
Work in progress
6 male 6 female Lights Up! is the comic saga of the Wobbly Boot Theatre Company . The WB Theatre company is a small town performing arts group who, for the first time ever, secure themselves an Arts grant and decide to get big time director Archie Quartermaine in to direct their annual production of 'Not Without My Fanny!' with hilarious consequences. Featuring the music of Motown, 'Lights Up!' is a comedy about everyone’s desire for validity – Victoria the leading lady has the (twenty) seven year itch and wants someone to scratch it, Nigel is overlooked as leading man but still yearns for respect as a performer and the Wobbly Boot Theatre Company strives to be taken seriously, despite being ludicrous.
10 Minute Wonders
Log Off - The (short) Musical (new!)
Log Off explores the disparate nature of virtual and real communications via the heady world of on-line dating. All in ten minutes.
Naughty Nigella - [Image Vigour Graphics]
Naughty Nigella
Monologue for female
Satire of the popular and ever saucy Nigella Lawson. First performed by Lois Phillips 2009.
Monologue for female
Satire of the popular and ever saucy Nigella Lawson. First performed by Lois Phillips 2009.
Grassroots (new!)
2m, 2f
Love among the cabbages. Well, sex anyway.
Duffers (new!) (Runner-Up Dogwood Initiative: Australia's Richest Radio Play Writing Competition 2010)
1m, 1f Radio play about a financially stressed urban couple who run headlong into the shady world of cattle duffing. Life is getting the better of Charlie and Jo, a self-pitying young urban couple who can’t keep up let alone get ahead. In a fit of domestic desperation they decide to grab the cow by its bell and embark upon an ill-conceived and largely loony episode of grand theft bovine.
Plays for Children
Eat My Shorts
Ten short plays for young actors - varied in length but none longer than three minutes. Comic in nature and fun to perform. A complete production without the pressure of a lot of lines. Premiered at Ayr State High School in 2002. Free to download.
Waiting for Wolfo
A series of short scripts which epitomise/satirise a range of Dramatic Genre. Generic adaptations of a variety of fairytales. The traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood becomes Waiting for Wolfo (Absurdism) and Much Ado About Red Riding Hood (Shakespeare). Learning the conventions of Elizabethan and Epic theatre can be challenging. Students benefit enormously from pairing the newly learnt style with familiar material. Performed at Ayr State High School Showcase 2003.Free to download
Waiting for Wolfo
A series of short scripts which epitomise/satirise a range of Dramatic Genre. Generic adaptations of a variety of fairytales. The traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood becomes Waiting for Wolfo (Absurdism) and Much Ado About Red Riding Hood (Shakespeare). Learning the conventions of Elizabethan and Epic theatre can be challenging. Students benefit enormously from pairing the newly learnt style with familiar material. Performed at Ayr State High School Showcase 2003.Free to download
A Christmas Caper: Will Greedy Boy Really Gobsmack Santa's Superheroes?
(new!)
Cast of 6
Greedy Boy is out to eat Christmas - all of it! Can anyone stop him before Santa's blood sugar plummets? Police Chief Elf? The crazy Fairy? A panto of huge, hilarious proportions with a big bag of nuts.
Christmas Panto's:
How Rudolph Got His Red Nose
Cast of 8
Lively festive romp in the tradition of the British pantomime with a distinct Aussie flavour. Real crowd pleaser. Rudolph is always getting into trouble, stealing hats and painting Santa's suit green among other things. The Good Fairy comes up with a rap to help Rudolph remember to be good but will it work against the lure of naughtiness that the Naughty Fairy and Naughty Elf provide. First performed 2009, for St Mary's Primary and Goondiwindi State Primary School.
Santa is Lost:
Cast of 6
It's Christmas Eve and Santa can't find his sleigh. Who can help? The Naughty, yet repentant Elf? The confused but ultimately Good, fairy? PC Plod? Little Claws - Santa's hungry cat? Anything can happen in this lively Christmas farce. Premiered 2008.
(new!)
Cast of 6
Greedy Boy is out to eat Christmas - all of it! Can anyone stop him before Santa's blood sugar plummets? Police Chief Elf? The crazy Fairy? A panto of huge, hilarious proportions with a big bag of nuts.
Christmas Panto's:
How Rudolph Got His Red Nose
Cast of 8
Lively festive romp in the tradition of the British pantomime with a distinct Aussie flavour. Real crowd pleaser. Rudolph is always getting into trouble, stealing hats and painting Santa's suit green among other things. The Good Fairy comes up with a rap to help Rudolph remember to be good but will it work against the lure of naughtiness that the Naughty Fairy and Naughty Elf provide. First performed 2009, for St Mary's Primary and Goondiwindi State Primary School.
Santa is Lost:
Cast of 6
It's Christmas Eve and Santa can't find his sleigh. Who can help? The Naughty, yet repentant Elf? The confused but ultimately Good, fairy? PC Plod? Little Claws - Santa's hungry cat? Anything can happen in this lively Christmas farce. Premiered 2008.
