The clicking and winding of gears can be heard from all around. It grows louder until it is almost unbearable. The sound stops, replaced by the ticking of two clocks, slightly out of time, so that they resemble the beating of a heart. The lights come up on the CLOCKMAKER’s workshop. Every wall is covered […]
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Too Old For This
Darkness. The SNAP of a lamp being turned on to reveal: INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT OLD MAN (81) and OLD WOMAN (77) lie awake in their double bed. They are wearing matching, hideous pajamas. They look up at the ceiling. OLD WOMAN I think we should get a divorce. Tremblay_Scriptwriting_EditedVersion
The Tinder Game
The Tinder Game is a verbatim play which takes real conversations from the dating app, Tinder, and mixes them with interviews of people’s thoughts and experiences of the game. Sewell_Scriptwriting
Time’s Up
FADE IN: EXT. SUBURBAN STREET. NORTH CORNWALL – DAY Refracted sunrays cast spotlights on the honey-coloured leaves that pepper the suburban pavement. Half-naked trees loom over long driveways that wind their way to large houses, each a carbon copy of its neighbour. The neighbourhood is small, containing around fifteen houses in total and with lots […]
Three Bridesmaids, a Snickers and a Bathtub
The inside of a Hummer. Two bridesmaids, NICOLE (27) and ANGIE (27) wear fluorescent pink dresses with excessive embroidery and flowers. REBECCA (28), in a halter neck version, climbs into the vehicle. Their DRIVER sits in front, he reads a newspaper. REBECCA: (Emotional) She’s gone. ANGIE: (Laughs) Yeah, sure. NICOLE: What do you mean, she’s […]
Racing Hearts
FADE IN: INT. JACK’S BEDROOM – AUTUMN, PRESENT DAY, EARLY MORNING Light shines through the window. The bedroom is messy and filled with all manner of racing posters, toys and duvet covers. There is a large poster of Ayrton Senna above the bed. JACK (10) is standing in front of a full-length mirror. His mother, […]
UNO
INT. HOSPITAL – NIGHT The paediatric ward is empty except for two teenagers. Ewan (14, gaunt and skinny) lies in bed, playing cards with Jimmy (15, clearly healthier) who sits in a chair by Ewan’s bed. Jimmy takes a sip from a cup of water, pausing for effect. Ewan hangs on his every word. Croucher_Scriptwriting_FinalVersion […]
Bairstow-Minghella
A short comedy for the stage Bairstow Minghella 1.1
Gravity
— after Salvador Dali’s Homage to Newton The beating heart is no joke. I have seen, swung in its place, the short leash of a pendulum weighing heavily, ball and chain. In the space of human conscience rests the weight of the world, a head expanded on thick shoulders and thinning wrists. Atlas has nothing […]
Episode one: analysis of the Bananafish-maker
A started cigar- ette on a window sill. The ash makes it on the bottom of the make-up bag & no doubt on her teeth upon reach- ing Clapton to bru- sh.