Musicals

Running Mate was the first of my musicals to be performed in public which happened at The Actors Church in Covent Garden. Running Mate is a political work about a politician who hires a social media princess to help him win an election. She arouses his jealousy by her performance and he expresses it with a song called 'Traitor in my House'. Superb performances from Jonny Parlett, Chris Gates and Sarah Sayeed. 

Read more about Running Mate in this blog post  

Sex and Disability was a long term project of mine as I wanted to explore the emotional issues of the disabled. Together with Mishkin Fitzgerald, I wrote the songs for this production. Mishkin agreed to be musical director and accompany the performances with Gary Mitchell. The performances were funded by the Arts Council and the charity Scope, and performed at The Purple Playhouse Theatre in Hove in Nov 2019.  Ticket sales and audience reception were both outstanding.

Army Girl is a stream of consciousness prose poem put in the mouth of a female soldier serving in a covert army unit in 1974, Northern Ireland's bloodiest year.  It is a one woman show supported by a singer and a band. Mishkin Fitzgerald wrote the music to my lyrics. The show received two standing ovations over the weekend it was shown. 

Bunga Bunga is my best work to date and the only one not to be staged. This is because it is a mega musical and the level of funding required would be exceptional. The subject of this work is the life and times of Silvio Berlusconi,  three times Prime Minister of Italy. Each key event in his life is intended to be both a song and a spectacle. I still harbour hopes that this might reach a theatre one day, or more aptly, a stadium.

The Hackers Opera was staged as part of the Brighton Festival in May 2017 and, somewhat surprisingly for a Monday night, sold out. The subject of the work was the trial of Rebekah Brookes, former editor of the News of the World and the central figure in the phone hacking scandal. This work was performed entirely in rhyming couplets, with music composed by Sharon Wright.