Commissioned!

Three days after a workshop on my play about Fred Dibnah, called The Demolition Man, I get a phone call from David Thacker, Artistic Director at Bolton Octagon, offering me a commission. The play will be programmed in the main house for spring 2011, so we have a whole year to develop the existing script. This is my first full-blown commission and is the culmination of seven years of playwriting. An absolute dream come true! I am leaping about, whooping, laughing with excitement – inside. On the phone to David I am as cool as a cucumber. He says he would like to direct the play himself, if that’s alright by me. (Was Shakespeare a playwright??)