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Part 1 - Danny
Part 2 - Jenny
Part 3 - Billy, The Musical!

"What a tour de force. You took us on such a journey.
We went with you all the way. And you shall remain with us. Stunning."

• intimate, gritty, challenging, funny and moving.
• three different characters, each a father, each fighting.
• playing with our concepts of paternity, identity, sanity, cruelty and love.
• based partly or entirely in Brighton.
• each can be enjoyed alone, although as a trio, they form a coherent set.

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Play 1 ~ Danny

Directed by Ali Chapman (Festival of Fools).
Young apathetic lager gambling chav dad seeks regression.
(90 minutes)  Images

'I'm having this one at home, Danny, and if you want to be there, you'd better sort yourself out and see someone, cos I ain't going through all that again like we did with Wilamena.'

I says, 'See someone? See who?'
She says, 'Well, I don't mean a bleedin' turf accountant, do I?'
I says, 'Yeah well Fanny, maybe I don't want to be there. Maybe I don't want to be standing there knee deep in all that muck and filth, listening to you screaming the bleedin' house down, wondering what nosey Nora next door is thinking. I mean it's not as if we're detached, is it?'

She didn't have an answer for that one.
She watches one "Richard and Judy", right, and suddenly it's all "home-births" this, "yoga" that.
I says, 'Oh yeah, Fanny, and if you're still on about "natural active childbirth" in a month's time, I'll buy me own bleedin' yoga mat. Alright!?'

"Very, very skilled portrayal of the characters and extraordinary experiences of someone being woken up to their potential. Very moving, very funny." Anthea. 

"Danny" is dedicated to it's director, the late Ali Chapman

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Play 2 ~ Jenny

Directed by Ollie and Kirsty Hurd-Thomas, Annika Brown
Full-blooded librarian seeks love and real men in a world gone large print and trash-romance mad. (90 minutes). Images

'And then there was Billy. The Kid. Such a big boy, and such a cheeky grin.
He wandered in that first day looking like a lost soul.
I said, 'Can I help you, young man?'
 He looked a bit lost, a bit fat and a bit bald, keeping it hidden under his baseball cap, but you can tell, can't you.
And he came over and said. 'Yeah. Is this the library, then?'
I said, 'Yes. . . Did you want the library?'
So he comes over a bit closer, and he looks me up and down!
And then he stares. . . No. He looks, just looks, at my . . .breasts. Just looks at them, And then he looks up at me, I mean at my eyes, smiles and says,
'You know what? I think I do. What've you got?'

Play 3 ~ Billy, The Musical!

Mixed-up brickie breaks walls to find black is white, slave is master, woman is man, shrink is patient, past is present and father. . . is son. (Approx 2 hrs 20 mins)

~How much Laudanum did you give him, Benjamin? He looks dangerously ill. His convulsions more ghastly by the hour.

~I gave him no less and no more than he needs, Mr Potts. I am quite sure.
 
~I have known neither seas nor seasickness like it. Are all crossings to Scotland as treacherous?

~I don’t believe so. Listen Jonathan. I want you to brace yourself. I do not expect James to last the night.

~What were you two talking about? He was speaking about you . . .in his sleep. Something about a slave girl, Angelique?

~I know no one of such a name. Hold him down. I believe just one more measure may calm him.

 ~Are you sure?

~Hold him. Do as I say!