By the Zephyr Blown – May 12th 2021

Delighted that my work “By the Zephyr Blown” for Violin and Piano was featured as part of this wonderful evening featuring the works of female composers and looking at women’s voices in the Bible on Wednesday 12th May at St Mary Without the Walls, Chester. Led by Trevor Dennis. If you’d like to listen to my piece – it’s at 1h 54′ 30″ into the live stream. Played by Sarah Jessop (violin) and Michael Reynolds (Piano).

Programme for the Evening:

28 Plays Later: Day 28 “What’s Next?”

Well, almost unbelievably, I’ve arrived at Day 28 of 28! This brief was to write something looking into the future and uplifting. So I wrote…

“What’s Next?”

Homeless man on a bench at Lime Street Station is befriended by a mysterious girl who offers him rainbow coloured sweets and every time either of them eats one that colour of the rainbow fills the station…

A lovely write to end a fab challenge and my hero leaves the stage walking along a rainbow 🙂

28 Plays Later: Day 27 “Our Ted”

Today’s brief was to write a companion piece to one of the other plays that you have already written this month. So I decided, just to make life nice and challenging to do it to the very first play I wrote – “What They Knew”…. which was also a musical!

Enter stage right:

“Our Ted”

An elderly man with dementia in a care home thinks he’s talking to his wife when his sister shows up and they work through the mad times together, connecting whilst having entirely separate conversations all through plexy glass and covid etc. And singing of course… (I’ll post the songs another time.)

Bit sad but sort of in love with Ted now and want him as my Uncle! (Is that awfully egoistical when he’s a character you created?!).

Tomorrow is the last night of this mad month of wonderful writing – excited!