Full length Plays

Can be downloaded where indicated. All other titles are available from:agency@hopecorner.net to whom all inquiries concerning professional or amateur performance rights should be addressed. All these plays are fully protected by copyright.

A Great British Farce

in which the Leader of the Opposition, his wife, their manservant and a burglar are involved in a plot with more twisting and turning than a political interview. (3m, 1f, given a staged reading at The Watershed, Bristol.) Revised version now available for first full production.


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Axe Play

A drama in which a group of actors meet with the murderer’s brother in order to reconstruct a particularly gruesome crime. (4m, 2f, given a staged reading at the Cambridge Hotbed Festival.) Revised version now available for first full production.


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Death of a Giant
Two disabled ex-soldiers try to make a new life for themselves by creating a giant. (3m, 2f., first produced at the New End Theatre, London).
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Gas and Candles

A comedy set in the late 1970s, when a pair of pensioners draw attention to their plight by staging a mock siege. (2m, 1f., first produced at the Leicester Haymarket, and subsequently at the Cheltenham Everyman, Theatre Royal Stratford East and many other theatres in Britain and abroad.) “Its theme digs into the imagination and stays there long after the play is over” (Daily Telegraph). “Comedy explodes from the smallest incident” (Guardian). Published by Dramatic Publishing Company, Chicago (to whom applications should be made for amateur production rights in North America).


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Him A-Layin’ Bare

When the chimpanzee couple George and Mary acquire a new neighbour, the mighty gorilla Gary, their lives are changed for ever. (5m, 2f., first produced at the South London Theatre Centre.) “A remarkable and original piece of considerable entertainment value” (West Norwood Advertiser).


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Jones v Jones

The disintegration of a marriage. (1m, 1f., first produced at the Sheffield Crucible Studio). “The play was received with great attentiveness by a packed audience” (Financial Times). “Stunning drama” (The Star).


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Professor in Play

A psychological drama, in which a university professor goes to war with his wife and her lover. (2m, 1f, adapted for radio and produced by Studio Bern under the title SPIEL ODER NICHT SPIEL.)


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The Dawn

An elderly couple are subjected to a mysterious and frightening interrogation about their past lives. Only when their son appears do they learn the terrible truth about their own predicament. (4m, 1f., first produced at the Act Inn, London.) “Mr Wilson’s writing is continually interesting and often – though the play is not a comedy – very funny...He is wise enough not to give us all the answers on a plate but leaves us something to think about afterwards." (Financial Times).


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We’re Looking for Mary Pickford

Two ancient children rebel against their mother, and break out into an unexpectedly claustrophobic and frightening world. (3m, 1f., first produced at the Stadtheater, Baden Baden, Germany. First British production at the King’s Head Theatre, London). “Mr Wilson gets plenty of comic mileage out of the anachronistic absurdity” (The Times).


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Who Cares?
A farcical tragedy in which two pensioners prepare to donate their meagre savings to charity, while the unions take on management, management takes on the unions, the media meddle and the Prime Minister muddles. Then tragedy strikes, the innocent suffer, the guilty play innocent, but who cares? (7m, 5f., first produced at the King’s Head Theatre, London.)
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