Plays

Play	Note	Company
The Climb	A drama documentary for Radio 4's Afternoon Play slot. It concerns cycling and jazz music. The play was broadcast on 4th July 2007 at 2.15pm. It contains original music composed by Soweto Kinch. Details here.	BBC Radio 4
Kind of Dark	A new version of this short play was produced as part of The Miniaturists 8 show at The Arcola Theatre on 1st July 2007. Suzanne Bell directed Raquel Cassidy and Mark Arends. This is (still) a dark play looking at the impulse for revenge.	The Miniaturists
Upside Down & Back to Front (radio version)	A commission to adapt the stage play (see below) for Radio 4's Afternoon Play slot. The play was broadcast on Tuesday 14th November 2006.	BBC Radio 4
Rolling News	A piece inspired by the forms and concerns of 24 hours news coverage. After a period of development this play was commissioned by the Rep.	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Upside Down & Back to Front	A theatre and visual arts project at The Number 8 Community Arts Centre, Pershore in February/March 2005. The project was built around this newly commissioned play using photography and storytelling as its primary inspirations. More details on the UDBTF Web page.	artworcs
If You Could Bottle It... and Drill	If You Could Bottle It... is a fifteen minute three-hander written with Andy Higgitt for the artworcs/SCRIPT Script Slam at The Marr's Bar in Worcester, August 2004. Alexander Delamere directed and the cast was Bella Merlin, Catherine Skinner and Rob Swinton. Drill is a ten minute monologue written for artworcs' Artburst the night after the Script Slam. Peter Sutton performed it. More details of both events on the artworcs Web site.	artworcs
Smoked	A man's last cigarette. A five minute radio play written with Anna Chen for the BBC Sparks Radio Drama Writers' Group. Recorded in February 2004 at Bush House. Directed by Sally Avens and featuring Declan Wilson, Philip Fox, Grae Cleugh and Andrew McLay.	BBC Radio
Kind of Dark	This 20 minute play was selected for professional script-in-hand performance by Swan Playwrights at their Black Night event. The show was on 24th October 2003 at The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster. Kim Greengrass directed and Greg Higgs and Alison Carney acted. This is a dark play looking at the impulse for revenge.	Swan Playwrights
Michelangelo's Snowman	A 45 minute radio play about the snowman that the young Michelangelo carved for Piero de'Medici.	-
It's a Cook-Up	A site-specific, devised/written piece for 4 (+ guest) performers. Set in a restaurant. First performances at the Hereford Courtyard Arts Centre, May 1-3, 2003. On tour in Autumn 2003. Devised by the company with written contributions from Lance Woodman.	New Theatre Works
Growing Old Disgracefully	A three hander (2M, 1F), with karaoke interludes. A story of the 1960s/70s generation growing up like it says. Written under a Pearson placement at Worcester Swan Theatre. With the Swan no longer producing, the play is looking for a home.	TBA
Red Skies Over the Severn	A full length play. First professional production on Worcester Swan Theatre's main stage 25 October, 2001. "A remarkably compelling piece... blessed with a mix of high passion and sly humour that bodes exceptionally well for the future." Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph	Worcester Theatre Company
The Same River and Inheritance	Two one hour long plays for a company of seven professional actors working with community actors. Part of the Worcester Century Plays. They ran on Worcester Swan Theatre's main stage from 7-28 April, 2001. "Vibrantly imaginative... an affirmation of the Swan's long-standing links with the city and county of Worcester, as well as a celebration of new writing." The Stage. "Mr Woodman writes like a poet" Birmingham Post.	Worcester Theatre Company
A Man Walks into a Bar	A 10 minute play for two actors. Professional rehearsed reading at Swan Playwrights' Bar Stories event, December 2000. Reading script available.	Swan Playwrights
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie...	An extract from the play was performed at the MAPS performance weekend at the University of Birmingham in June 2000.	N/A
The Odd Boy	A 90 min. play for 46 actors. Devised by the company, script by Lance Woodman	The Alvechurch Community Play
Ice Cold At Alec's	A 90 min. comedy for five actors. Written by Pat Errington and Lance Woodman	Theatre Unlimited
Tea and Empathy	A short monologue. A woman makes a new friend and begins to assert herself. Read by Susan Jameson, directed by Mark Babych. Part of the Worcester Swan's 'Armchair Theatre' event	Swan Playwrights
Circus Play	A 90 min. tragicomedy for six actors. Refugees hide in a strange circus, but there's an accident and the past begins to catch up. An earlier version of the play, Dial 'C' for Circus, was performed by Theatre Unlimited. Rehearsed readings at Birmingham Rep and Worcester Swan as part of the Stagecoach! festival (West Midlands, UK). In 2005 this play is being used in drama workshops at Bury Lawn School, Milton Keynes.	Stagecoach!
Colin, Joyce and Davy	Short extract from a longer play. The workshopped scene probably became, substantially altered, a fragment of Inheritance (see above). Rehearsed reading as part of the Free Theatre project (Worcester, UK)	Swan Playwrights
Before these I wrote and co-wrote several plays with Theatre Unlimited which were performed at Worcester Arts Workshop.

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Last updated: 20/Dec/2007