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Two of my plays, Persephone and Bombs and Blackberries include songs. These are both suitable for a whole top junior class to act.
I have also written two musicals for adults to perform to children, the scripts of which can be supplied by my agent Caroline Sheldon.
I wrote the first one, King Grunt’s Cake, when I was in my twenties and living in Brighton. I got together a group of actors and we performed the musical in the Round House Downstairs in London and at the Gardner Centre in Brighton. Malcolm had two roles – King Grunt and a morris-dancing farmer, and I was Lola the kitchen cat. My sister Mary had a cameo role as a cockerel called Clarence.
A few years later I followed this up with another musical called Pirate on the Pier, which again we performed in Brighton and London.
Malcolm was Polperro the pirate and I was a crooked fortune-teller called Gypsy Nose.
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Malcolm as the pirate, with the parrot (played by Heather Allen) perched on his shoulder.
You can find out more about the musicals by clicking on the posters below.
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