Create a Play in a Day

A best friend’s relationship is tested by a young boy and a sticky sweet pie. How will they fair in the squabble and who will be left hungry?

Darcey Ball is a Cornish playwright and performer based in Mousehole. Darcey trained at Bristol Old Vic and Rose Bruford before moving back to her motherland. Find her cold-water swimming off the harbour wall or skipping along the coastal path in song.

The Barn Mice is the story of three House Mice dealing with a group of Barn Mice who have just arrived at the gates of their home seeking refuge. This play explores the sticky relationship between hierarchy and management of the truth. 

Jack Brownridge-Kelly is a Newlyn-born writer, performer, and producer. He loves exploring stories associated with Cornwall and the variety of weird and wonderful residents that inhabit it. 

Vanessa arrived home one afternoon to find her siblings and cousin in a state of confusion, as her father has been arrested for sexually assaulting a teenage girl. All have to rapidly come to terms with the situation at hand with Vanessa’s brother demanding loyalty to the family, and the girls unsure whether this is the right thing to do.

Hannah Crouch is an up-and-coming writer with her first full-length script Plaything being produced this year by Act2B in Bristol. She is a Creative Writing and English Literature graduate of Bath Spa University and has been recognised for her writing by Bristol Old Vic as part of their Open Session and also won the Five Day Play Competition at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Ziggy and the Stars is the story of a young girl trying to find her place in the universe.

Penny Gunter has been commissioned by BBC New Creatives for her spoken word poetry as well as writing a competition winning draft of a Young Adult novel. She is also a primary teacher, surf coach and leads creative writing workshops.

There’s no such thing as monsters - everybody knows that. But in the corner of his eye, two steps behind his shadow, Jack catches a glimpse of something there, watching.

Ali Langley (a proud northern lass) has been a waitress, a calendar wire counter, a tea-maker, briefly a nurse, long time a teacher and now a writer. She went to Exeter University to learn how to script and currently spends her days working with the most amazing children (and occasionally encouraging them out from under tables).

In a time of climate chaos, the children of the world stage a global revolution. Which is all well and good unless you’re stuck in a boarding school on Bodmin Moor with only a kidnapped lab assistant to help you. 

Kerry Priest was one of Eyewear’s Best New British and Irish Poets 2018 and her poetry has been published in Acumen, Emma Press, Salzburg Review and Shearsman while her radio dramas have been broadcast to 21 stations worldwide. She has been nominated for the Forward Prize, commended for her dramatic verse in the UEA/National writing Centre’s New Forms Award and had her experimental audio work played on BBC Radio 3’s Freeness show.

Sugar & Rum is a swashbuckling kids’ comedy set in the Golden Age of Piracy. It follows a brave and imaginative girl, her smooth-talking cat and her terrified father as they pursue a fearsome pirate to take back what’s theirs.

Alex MJ Smith is a comedy writer and one of the BBC Writersroom’s ‘Cornish Voices’. He is currently developing several TV projects for kids and adults; this is the first time his work has been staged.

2003 follows Sim, a teenager at a traditional private school who, after her school introduces an LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum, campaigns to reinstate the measures of Section 28. The debate polarises her peer group, raging both in-real-life and on social media as Sim must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to maintain her beliefs. 

Theo Toksvig-Stewart is a dyslexic writer and actor from the South East. His work has been produced by the BBC, Cut the Cord, Warts and All Theatre, Applause Rural Touring and now the Minack. Theo is currently reading old drafts for spelling mistakes.