Set: Very simple set (essentially two office swivel chairs)
Synopsis: Two occupants of merciless alien costumes for a famous time-travelling tv series discuss life, fame and pressing problems for actors in their confined position!
Running time: Around 35 minutes (Caution! This is very dependent on your production.)
Notes: 'This particular play is very dear to my heart as, if memory serves, it was the first one I ever wrote and has since gone on to become a popular presentation by amateur
groups at festivals up and down the UK. It was inspired by photographs I had seen of the actors who had the dubious honour of operating the Daleks in the BBC TV series,
'Doctor Who'. 'What must it be like to be in one of those things?', I thought, 'Do they let you out for lunch? What if you need to... pay a visit?'
Well, with a little dramatic licence (and craftily sidestepping all copyright issues), here is my answer! As a writer, the two Daleks presented the perfect environment for a
comedy to develop. Two characters quite literally trapped together, forced to endure each other's company - at least until the Battle for the Universe...'
Published: 2007
First Produced: Drip Action Theatre, 2007
Latest Production: Little Acorn Production Company, 2012
SAMPLE SCENE
Trevor: No. I don't believe it. They can't do this.
Colin: What is it? Can't do what?
Trevor: The Supreme Leader. They've changed it. He's destroyed in the battle for the universe.
Colin: Oh dear. Well, it seems we are destined to go together after all. Do we go down fighting?
(Silence.)
Colin: You know, all guns blazing?
Trevor: How could they do this to me? To me? Two weeks I've sat in this thing. I haven't complained, I haven't made a nuisance of myself, and this is how they repay me. This
is how they repay the hours I've spent waiting around, wasting my time, listening to people like you. How could they? If only they knew what I've put up with. Henry couldn't have
managed and yet look at him. His own series. Where's the justice in that? I suppose it's always the squeaky gate that gets the oil isn't it? How can the Supreme Leader get
destroyed? Surely he's supposed to be...
Colin: Supreme?
Trevor: Precisely. Invincible. I thought I could return. A regular villain.
Colin: But you've hated every minute of it!
Trevor: Of course I've hated it. Being stuck in here like this. But it's work isn't it? It's better than not being stuck in here.
Synopsis: Two occupants of merciless alien costumes for a famous time-travelling tv series discuss life, fame and pressing problems for actors in their confined position!
Running time: Around 35 minutes (Caution! This is very dependent on your production.)
Notes: 'This particular play is very dear to my heart as, if memory serves, it was the first one I ever wrote and has since gone on to become a popular presentation by amateur
groups at festivals up and down the UK. It was inspired by photographs I had seen of the actors who had the dubious honour of operating the Daleks in the BBC TV series,
'Doctor Who'. 'What must it be like to be in one of those things?', I thought, 'Do they let you out for lunch? What if you need to... pay a visit?'
Well, with a little dramatic licence (and craftily sidestepping all copyright issues), here is my answer! As a writer, the two Daleks presented the perfect environment for a
comedy to develop. Two characters quite literally trapped together, forced to endure each other's company - at least until the Battle for the Universe...'
Published: 2007
First Produced: Drip Action Theatre, 2007
Latest Production: Little Acorn Production Company, 2012
SAMPLE SCENE
Trevor: No. I don't believe it. They can't do this.
Colin: What is it? Can't do what?
Trevor: The Supreme Leader. They've changed it. He's destroyed in the battle for the universe.
Colin: Oh dear. Well, it seems we are destined to go together after all. Do we go down fighting?
(Silence.)
Colin: You know, all guns blazing?
Trevor: How could they do this to me? To me? Two weeks I've sat in this thing. I haven't complained, I haven't made a nuisance of myself, and this is how they repay me. This
is how they repay the hours I've spent waiting around, wasting my time, listening to people like you. How could they? If only they knew what I've put up with. Henry couldn't have
managed and yet look at him. His own series. Where's the justice in that? I suppose it's always the squeaky gate that gets the oil isn't it? How can the Supreme Leader get
destroyed? Surely he's supposed to be...
Colin: Supreme?
Trevor: Precisely. Invincible. I thought I could return. A regular villain.
Colin: But you've hated every minute of it!
Trevor: Of course I've hated it. Being stuck in here like this. But it's work isn't it? It's better than not being stuck in here.
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VISION IMPAIRED (Click the title to read the whole script online at Lazy Bee Scripts)
WINNER, STRETHAM PLAYERS, BEST ACTOR, MATT CREAKE, HAVERHILL FESTIVAL, 2009.
WINNER, ABBEY PLAYERS, WARWICKSHIRE PLAY FESTIVAL, 2009.
WINNER, TARRYSTONE PLAYERS, BEST ALL MALE PERFORMANCE, MAIDENHEAD DRAMA FESTIVAL, 2007.
'We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves' Stretham Players, Ely, Cambs.
'An amusing little gem' Breakfast Cat Theatre, Surrey. (Press review here)
Cast: 2m
TREVOR, 40s or older. Cynical, bitter actor. You know how they can get.
COLIN, 20s or 30s. Keen, naive and grateful for the work. A wide-eyed innocent.
WINNER, STRETHAM PLAYERS, BEST ACTOR, MATT CREAKE, HAVERHILL FESTIVAL, 2009.
WINNER, ABBEY PLAYERS, WARWICKSHIRE PLAY FESTIVAL, 2009.
WINNER, TARRYSTONE PLAYERS, BEST ALL MALE PERFORMANCE, MAIDENHEAD DRAMA FESTIVAL, 2007.
'We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves' Stretham Players, Ely, Cambs.
'An amusing little gem' Breakfast Cat Theatre, Surrey. (Press review here)
Cast: 2m
TREVOR, 40s or older. Cynical, bitter actor. You know how they can get.
COLIN, 20s or 30s. Keen, naive and grateful for the work. A wide-eyed innocent.
Richard James / Actor & Playwright
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