South Africa 1950 Angelo, is a teenager growing up in a time of innocence, an innocence about to be shattered by events outside of his cosy world. Angel chronicles the story of one boy and his family s trials and tribulations over one fateful day. Set against a backdrop of apartheid Angel is a spellbinding tour de force of suspense.

Rhoda Romayne accompanied by her two young Daughters is making the journey of a life time, escaping post war Britain and the forthcoming Olympic games for the sunshine and splendour of the South African coast. Determined to catch up with old friends she uses Charlotte, her younger daughter to date Anthony, the son of an old flame, and one that she dreams of rekindling. But, everyone else is on a journey too, Charlotte would like to marry well and this journey for her will decide her future. For Jane the elder daughter, it s a journey of discovery and love. For Athony it s a journey for the truth about his father s past. Each with their own reasons for travelling along life s highways all come together at a crossroads where anything can happen. Each with a set of choices, each set on their own course of discovery, but one has to come to a dead end...

Born in Durban, after university and drama school he toured South Africa with the National Theatre Company before hitch-hiking to London where he took a job with The Sunday Times, and started writing plays in his spare time. He has written screenplays for Columbia Films, 20th Century Fox, Children's Film Foundation, BBC & Independent TV. As an actor, he has appeared in London and has also played leading roles in many provincial theatres, on tours and on the continent. His television appearances have been numerous and he has also worked in film and on radio. He has directed plays at RADA, on the London Fringe, Buxton, Chesterfield, Derby, Worthing, and spent two long spells in America teaching and directing at James Madison University in Virginia and at Furnam University in South Carolina. He currently lives on the island of Crete.

Born in Durban, after university and drama school he toured South Africa with the National Theatre Company before hitch-hiking to London where he took a job with The Sunday Times, and started writing plays in his spare time. He has written screenplays for Columbia Films, 20th Century Fox, Children's Film Foundation, BBC & Independent TV. As an actor, he has appeared in London and has also played leading roles in many provincial theatres, on tours and on the continent. His television appearances have been numerous and he has also worked in film and on radio. He has directed plays at RADA, on the London Fringe, Buxton, Chesterfield, Derby, Worthing, and spent two long spells in America teaching and directing at James Madison University in Virginia and at Furnam University in South Carolina. He currently lives on the island of Crete.

Thornton goes to the movies and when the lights go down, the action starts - murder is on the screen. When a young secretary is found dead in her office Thornton is called in to dig beneath the glamour and tinsel of the film world. When he shines the limelight on the shady dealings between the mafia and a film company, the cameras start rolling on a plot that ends up with murder As the body count rises, who will make it to the silver screen or end up on the cutting room floor? Lights, Camera, Murder

After being made redundant from MI5 Thornton King is trying to make ends meet. With the aid of Miss Holly Day, and under the watchful eye of Princess Spitskaya, he enters the glamorous world of fashion, as Rear Admirals, Drug Barons, Arms Dealers, Film Stars all come to a sticky end in this romp of a comedy thriller. The only link Thornton has to go on is the fact that all the men before they died were last seen in the presence of a beautiful girl, but each eyewitness testifies differently; that it was a blonde, brunette or raven haired girl. Is it the same girl or is there more than one strikingly beautiful murderer on the loose? Thornton & Holly finally track down the killers to a modelling school, a cover for a school of assassins run by the Princess, where the student's end of term graduation depends on their ability to do the job. But not all the students have taken their final exams Who will be the last to graduate? Will Holly make the grade? Is it for Thornton to hand out the diplomas? Murder, mystery and mayhem wrapped up in beautiful but lethal packages take you on a roller coaster of a ride until the final chapter when all is revealed The perfect model for a murder

The Museum Mysteries - On a visit to the new Acropolis Museum in Athens two visitors were particularly taken with a unique artefact, the purpose of which has not been identified but which caused both of them independently to feel a distinct unease, a sense of something horribly unearthly. This was what inspired a modern Gothic horror novella The Museum Mysteries. This collection of seven short stories all have a supernatural theme, of love, hate, and revenge that will get your palms sweating, your pulse racing and send that legendary shiver down your spine.

Play Script Synopsis: - A comedy that takes place in a flat occupied by students at a small Protestant university in the Mid-West. They and some of their friends are visited by a professor from another college, suffering a mid-life crises and with the hots for one of the girls, a recipe for disaster if ever there was one and the inevitable chaos duly develops. 4Men 3Women

The Cinelli Vases Thornton falls in love, not with one, but with two ravishing beauties, a pair of Chinese vases Unfortunately they can never be his as they are already spoken for, being the property of an Italian noblewoman, the Countess Cinelli. Fate however (in the shape of Miss Holly Day) takes a hand in bringing Thornton and the Countess together as she needs someone to recover a precious article from a Swiss bank. In accepting the job Thornton never realises what he has let himself in for until he comes face to face with others who are all desperate to lay hands on "it" - American gangsters, the Italian Mafia, the KGB, Japanese Yakusa and Chinese Triads one and all after the same thing and prepared to do anything to get it.

Laura is getting a divorce. She has returned to her mother s dilapidated house leaving her children in the care of a neighbour, Lindy, fearing that their father will come looking for them. Bogged down by poverty Bessie is trying to cope with life and an elderly mother and the added extra strain of Laura brings deep-seated family tensions to a head. Sharon, Bessie s other daughter arrives to celebrate thanksgiving with the rest of the family. As they try to deal with the death of Grandmother, secrets of the past and hatreds rise to the surface and need to be confronted before they can cope as a unified family with the redneck violence and bigotry of their men folk. Cast: 4F Set: Kitchen and verandah of a house on Route 33, Virginia, U.S.A.

Set against a background of the swinging 60 s when flower power and revolution are the key words Suddenly the outside world descends into the drawing room of a household not yet ready to live up to the fact that history and people change very quickly. The play centres around Crispin, a young man who is totally spoilt by the adoring women of his family, each vying for the attention and affection that only he can give, while he seeks affection elsewhere. What will happen when he finds that affection in the shape of Jason, a dropout from society; will Crispin still need all these women around? Cast: 2M 5F Set: The drawing room of a large Georgian style house.

Traditionally in Peter Pan the parts of Mr Darling and Captain Hook are doubled and, in this version, Mrs Darling is given a double as well by playing the crocodile as a man-eating vamp with a great torch song number Barbecued steaks may have what it takes, but if you can acquire it, check this out, you ll just love to dip your snout in tender loin of pirate.

Centred around the trial of the last man, James Daly, to be executed by the British Army. In India in 1920 an Irish regiment, The Connaught Rangers, mutinied as a protest at what the Black and Tans were doing back in Ireland. The regiment was the 88th of the line and 88 men were court-marshalled. James Daly was the only one to receive the death sentence. Cast: 18M (minimum) 1F voice recorded. Set: Barrack room/ prison cell/ courtroom.

A one man show based on the life and songs of George Leybourne, the great Lion Comique of the Victorian music hall and affectionately known from his famous song as Champagne Charlie. During his relatively short career he introduced and sang over 200 songs including that other famous number The Man On The Flying Trapeze . He died at the age of 44.

Rosemary, a one time not very successful actress, much to her chagrin is committed to a home for the elderly for her own safety. Here she is befriended by a young staff member, Robert, and another resident, Walter, a burnt-out schizophrenic, and gradually comes to accept her situation in life. The play is a poignant look at life, and love: It is tender, even romantic, with a warm sense of humour. Note: It is set in the 1980 s when Walter still has memories of seeing the Music Hall as a child and scenes in the play are interspersed with snatches of music hall songs sung by other residents offstage. Cast: 2M 3F Set: The common room of an old people s home

Traditionally in Peter Pan the parts of Mr Darling and Captain Hook are doubled and, in this version, Mrs Darling is given a double as well by playing the crocodile as a man-eating vamp with a great torch song number Barbecued steaks may have what it takes, but if you can acquire it, check this out, you ll just love to dip your snout in tender loin of pirate.

Commissioned with trying to solve the murder of a respected scientist, Thornton becomes embroiled in a web of blackmail and deceit. Using Holly as bait Thornton slowly unravels the mystery of an archery club near Epping Forest and a financial institution intent on keeping its members either paying up or giving up. If you go into the woods today, you re in for a big surprise....

Thornton and Holly head for the south of France and the French Riviera in this riotous sequel to Dead on Time. Deserving a well earned break, Thornton and Holly head south, but mystery and mayhem await them. Three identical suitcases and the lives of their owners become entangled in this fast paced comedy thriller. Smuggled diamonds, religious cults, kidnappings and an Interpol jamboree all interfere with Thornton and that well earned break. When travelling abroad it s always handy to have a private detective around, Just in case ..