My Plays
Theatres/producers wishing to stage my plays please contact me - email tombryson1@yahoo.com or phone 01384872204
ONE-ACT PLAYS
BUDDHA BOY
A New York based pooch needs dog psychiatry. Shrinks for dogs! Could only happen in the US!
Paul Merrell plays Buddha Boy in performances at the Rose theatre, Kidderminster; The Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcester Arts Workshop, Theatre of small Convenience, Malvern.
THE WARNING BEFORE FLODDEN
A commissioned short play inspired by the 1874 painting by the Scots painter John Faed, displayed in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery’s Victorian Rooms. This was one of six plays commissioned through New City Playwrights based on displayed artwork and objects and performed in the Art Gallery space and in local schools over a two week run.
(Directed by Ali Belbin, actors Greg Hobbs, Dan Hagley, Hema Mangoo)
ALL PLAYS AND VENUES
(Performed with professional direction/acting)
‘Anna’s Interview’ – Swan Theatre, Worcester
‘Peggy’s Place’ – New Theatre Works, Courtyard Theatre, Hereford
‘Whose Head am I in?’ – Rose Theatre, Kidderminster
‘Buddha Boy’ – Rose Theatre, Kidderminster; Worcester Arts Workshop; Theatre SC Malvern; Artrix theatre, Bromsgrove
‘A Death in Iraq’ (co-writer Rose Miller) – venues as ‘Buddha Boy’ above
‘The Warning before Flodden’ – Wolverhampton Art Gallery
‘Blighted Orchid’ – Winterbourne Gardens, Uni. Of Birmingham
RADIO
‘The Gun Hanging on the Wall’ – short story, Radio 4, RTE, NL radio,
FILM
VIMEO short film 'The Gun hanging on the Wall' Film by Howard Smith, screeenplay by Tom Bryson.