ALTOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a tragi-comedy of errors. The screenplay explores the parallel lives of two people born on the same day in 1953 on opposite sides of the Atlantic, focussing on key episodes in their lives from 1961 to 2002. The story, which takes its title from a line in W H Auden’s poem, ‘The Fall of Rome’, charts their lives from the ages of 8 to 50 and is set against a backdrop of the decline and fall of empires.
Annie from Liverpool and Dwight from Daytona grow up and begin their respective careers in the arts and the military – Annie becoming an acclaimed documentary and fashion photographer and Dwight a casualty of the Vietnam war eventually selling oranges by the roadside in Portugal. Their paths cross for the first time in Greece, when they are 27. Their lives become inextricably linked, not least through 9/11, though they never actually meet again until they are 50.
You can download this full length screenplay as a pdf: ALTOGETHER ELSEWHERE
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THE MEMORIAL is a feature length screenplay. Set in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (against a background of mutinies and the influenza pandemic), it is a love story, which explores class, religious prejudice and anti-war issues through the eyes of Captain Edward Standish.
Much of the action takes place at Edward’s country seat, an east Midlands village dominated by a colliery, as well as in London where Edward falls in love with an artist, Clara Zeligman. Edward has to choose between Clara and and his fiancée, the Honourable Charlotte Antrobus.
The story also takes us to Flanders where Edward faced the toughest choice of his military career – an event which haunts him throughout the story.
You can download this screenplay as a .pdf
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