A servant must distract her feudal master and survive his attentions, while her rebel friends storm his castle. So she tells the story of the last unicorn. A play about how we turn the things we destroy into myths.
Cast: 1 female/ 1 male (the lord and his servant)
Duration: 20 minutes
A British Saxon woman has fallen in love with a Viking. The cultures of the two peoples are now merging and there is peace, but her father (an aging warrior who is scared of heights) cannot adjust to the new society. The daughter comes to say good-bye to him. The play looks at the conflict between love and prejudice.
Cast: 1 female/ 1 male
Duration: 10 minutes
A woman in bondage leathers and a strap-on threatens her husband who is tied to a bed and gagged. But although she cannot go through with the role-play, the gag allows her at last to speak some home-truths.
Cast: 1 female (1 male who doesn't speak).
Duration: 20 minutes
A companion piece to Carol Churchill's 'Cloud Nine'. Two dogs tied to a kennel contemplate the nature of being a dog. Are we in control of who we are, or are we defined by peoples' expectations? The owner of the dogs is very clear about this.
Cast: 1 female/ 2 male
Duration: 10 minutes
Rowan and Ashley have great difficulty expressing their feelings for one another, and this is further complicated by Fontane who seems to desire both of them. Written with a period feel but played in modern dress, it is about how desire is always difficult to communicate in words.
Cast: 2 female/ 1 male
Duration: 15 minutes
A communal changing room becomes a battleground when The Fat Woman and The Thin Woman try on identical dresses... and that is only the start of the trouble. Physical theatre comedy about body image.
Cast: 2 female, 1 male
Duration: 20 minutes
Bit of a lack of pictures for the shorts, I'm afraid. I did have some lovely ones of 'Fat Woman' but they've disappeared... Oh well.
Antonia Butler and Paul Cemmick in the Brighton production of 'Warrior'. (Photo by Mike Gill).