A middle-aged Russian woman who died in 1921 has returned from the dead 16 years later to talk about her family and why she abandoned them. 

Four survivors of a Spanish anarchist commune must hold a road against the Fascist army; just for a few hours, that is, as a futile gesture towards the dying Republic. They are joined by two mysterious gypsies and by an Englishman on a bicycle; the latter is on his way to the front where he intends to spend three months fighting Franco. He and his motives are the central concern of the play: his commitment is self-fulfilling; he seeks the war as his countrymen now seek the sun, a tourist on the battlefield. The play begins as a piece of politico-historical realism and develops into disorientating fantasy. 

Writer’s note: Civil wars are the worst. Families are split, friendships destroyed, and afterwards there is no real peace. The war dies out as the generation dies. How did the Spanish war attract people? Inside it there were people who wanted to get out; outside there were people who wanted to get to Spain and fight; and finally, there were those who moved around just that moment ahead of destruction, non-combatants whose only weapon was the road. 

In Motorcar, a policeman, a doctor and two nurses are trapped in a mental hospital with a visionary psychotic. A mental hospital run by whites for blacks in pre-independence Rhodesia provides a backdrop for black experience of oppression. 

Richard III Part II: A play on three time levels: firstly, we meet George Orwell clutching the manuscript of ‘1984’ uncertain to publish it fearing that it may be misunderstood; secondly, we switch to the year 1984 and our introduced to 1985’s monopoly-like game ‘Betrayal’ based on Richard III; lastly, we are in the game itself – in the world of Richard III and his court. Exploring the question: what does History matter when it is being re-written as it is being lived? 

An American Music critic, Mrs Euterpe, is approached in the gardens of an Italian Café by a man claiming to be Phillip Heseltine (a composer now dead for 40 years). He in turn conjures up the ghosts of the Renaissance musician and composer Carlo Gesulado and his murdered wife Marie. Between them they work out the twisted story of the two musicians entwined lives. 

The moving story of war widow’s return to Liverpool after 50 years exile in USA, and her complex relationships with her grandchildren.