Treatment - first episode Learning to Breathe is a provoking portrayal of gender politics in the 1980's when the UK, caught up with high drama of riots, bombings and privatisation, was looking the other way. This ambitious, character-driven drama offers fresh insights into the personal politics of the 1980s and the issues which affected women on a very private level. Winter, 1981. Against the backdrop of Thatcher’s ironclad Britain, an unlikely group of women are brought together in a story of loyalty, friendship and survival. Meryl - feisty, independent and living on a shoestring - meets Anita, passive, devoted housewife, cushioned by her middle class lifestyle. Both pregnant, they meet at the new NHS antenatal classes. Jane, 'Queen of the Mother Hens', has also been dragged to the classes and leads the contingent of moneyed, conservative women who would otherwise never mix with anyone beyond their clique. In a poky classroom, amid breathing lessons and labour plans, a deeply divided society is revealed. The group's teacher Sandra, a ‘relic of the 60s’, is still pushing for women’s rights, yet men like Darren embody the suited business elite of the 80s, and women like Jane still exist to extol ‘housewifely’...

Flash Fiction: inspired by Donald Barthelme's 'The School', a woman one day finds herself with a Gorilla as a constant companion. And she can't seem to shake him.

Follow the link to my article on selfie culture and, in particular, the #nomakeupselfie phase in PUSH for The Writing Squad. http://www.writingsquad.com/push/issues/issue-4/yourself-at-arms-length/

For Context: Treatment Holding the Baby is a provoking portrayal of gender politics in the 1980's when the UK, caught up with high drama of riots, bombings and privatisation, was looking the other way. This ambitious, character-driven drama offers fresh insights into the personal politics of the 1980s and the issues which affected women on a very private level. Winter, 1981. Against the backdrop of Thatcher’s ironclad Britain, an unlikely group of women are brought together in a story of loyalty, friendship and survival. Meryl - feisty, independent and living on a shoestring - meets Anita, passive, devoted housewife, cushioned by her middle class lifestyle. Both pregnant, they meet at the new NHS antenatal classes. Jane, 'Queen of the Mother Hens', has also been dragged to the classes and leads the contingent of moneyed, conservative women who would otherwise never mix with anyone beyond their clique. In a poky classroom, amid breathing lessons and labour plans, a deeply divided society is revealed. The group's teacher Sandra, a ‘relic of the 60s’, is still pushing for women’s rights, yet men like Darren embody the suited business elite of the 80s, and women like Jane still exist to extol ‘housewifely’ virtues...

PDF doc. of my screenplay 'Sleepwalking' - for the next round of the Short Film Fund. 

A review of the recent production of David Hare's 'The Judas Kiss' at the Duke of York Theatre, starring Rupert Everett. 

A play which was written and directed in collaboration by Lucy Fostor and myself. Staged in the Warwick Arts Centre studio, as part of Warwick Students Arts Festival 2011.