Upcoming Performances
Confessions of a Sleepwalking Insomniac
DATE: 05-09 June
VENUE: BATS Theatre, Wellington, NZ
A sniper just shot a bullet through Briar’s window. Or… Briar had a nightmare and went crashing into a solid wooden door. Maybe the MRI machine can tell her which.
Briar’s always been a sleepwalker, but when a new relationship sends her sleep disorder into overdrive, it’s not just her REM cycle that suffers. Briar’s grip on reality is slipping, and her life is coming apart with it. The possibility of an assistance dog offers hope, but with injuries a nightly occurrence and her girlfriend’s patience wearing thin, Briar’s finding love might not be as unconditional as promised.
Based on the true story of a series of things that didn’t really happen, playwright Helen Vivienne Fletcher, winner of the Peter Harcourt Outstanding New Playwright award 2015, draws on her lifetime of sleep misadventures in this new solo play.
Falling asleep, or falling in love – which one is about to crash?
Confessions of a Sleepwalking Insomniac was commissioned by TAHI and had a developmental season in the 2022 TAHI Festival.
Cast: 1
Form: Full length
Style: Solo show
For licensing enquiries, please contact Playmarket
Past Performances
Please see Bibliography for full plays list or contact Playmarket for licensing enquiries.
Five Slices of Another Life
Co-written with Henrietta Bollinger, Hamish Boyle, Steff Green and Angela Pope.
Two women wait to be rescued from a burning building. Another finds salvation in a box of chickens. Things get awkward in a cafe. A detective investigates himself, and a blind seer delivers one last prophecy.
Five new Kiwi plays, written by and featuring disabled and neurodiverse folk – are you ready to step into another life?
Five Slices of Another Life was first performed as a development season as part of the DAFT Festival at BATS Theatre 2023.
Cast: 7
Form: Full length, anthology of short plays
Style: Comedy
How to catch a grim reaper
'Mel' and 'Stacey' in the 2015 Young and Hungry Season. Photo by Stephen A'Court
A filmmaker, a med student, and a psychology major come up with a plan to catch the Grim Reaper… but there’s just one problem: they need to kill one of their friends to do it. Well… almost kill them, that is. None of them expect it to work… and they have absolutely no clue what to do now they have Death itself caged in their lounge...
How to Catch A Grim Reaper was originally commissioned by the Young & Hungry Arts Trust and was first presented as part of the 2015 Festival of New Theatre at BATS Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand.
Helen was named Outstanding New Playwright at the 2015 Wellington Theatre Awards for How to Catch a Grim Reaper.
Cast: 7 (Young adult - Female: 3 Male: 4)
Form: Full length
Style: Drama-horror-comedy-romance
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Justice is Blind
When a group made up of a mix of able-bodied and disabled students are asked to work together on the senior production, the disabilities get fed up with the way they are being treated. They become not-so invisible, physically manifesting themselves in the room outside of the people they normally inhabit, in order to put the worst offenders on trial. They are sick of being ignored, patronised, or treated badly, and they’re not putting up with it any longer.
Thus ensues a hostage situation unlike any other. The disabilities have demands and they are not disappearing until they are met!
Justice is Blind was the winner of the 2020 Playmarket Plays for the Young Award - teenage category
Cast: 21 (Young adult) A version that can be performed by 18-19 actors is also available.
Form: Full length
Style: Young Adult
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Ruminate
Casey relives an old argument with a friend, but is she remembering everything correctly? Ruminate explores why some arguments are so hard to let go of, and why sometimes replaying them is about more than just that perfect come back you wish you’d thought of at the time.
Ruminate was first performed as part of The Memory Plays at BATS Theatre in 2018.
Cast: 3 (Female: 2 Male: 1)
Length: 10-15minutes
Style: Drama
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Pretending to be Human
Photo of the cast of Pretending to be human, in a staged reading as part of Tempest’s Rejected Script Series.
Monday 28th September 2020
Circus Bar Wellington
LEGACY 7 (FEATURING MY SHORT PLAY “ARTSPLAIN”)
DATE: 07 – 10 FEB 2024, 8PM
VENUE: Basement Theatre, Auckland, NZ
PRICE: Choose what you want
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6 bite-sized plays by new queer writers.
Whether they’re stories from the heart (broken or otherwise) or from some clever minds, there will be something for everyone in this theatrical pick-n-mix. Get ready to think, laugh or even cry as we share our deeply human stories of what it means to be queer today.
QUARE TALES (FEATURING MY SHORT PLAY “CATMAN”)
DATE: 08 – 09 FEB 2024
VENUE: Theatre@36, Dublin, Ireland
A programme of queer short plays performed by Acting Out, an LGBTQ+ performance group from Dublin.
These plays will be a mix of new writing, Irish premieres of modern international LGBTQ+ Plays and classics of the queer canon.
