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November 7, 2006

Monsters of the Forest

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One-act play about the teenage assassins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, commissioned by Net Curtains Theatre Company for Tales of the Black Hand, four plays on the theme of assassination, performed at the Tricycle Theatre.

The play was inspired by the folk tales of Serbia, which are full of forest-dwelling monsters, from one-eyed witches to the mysterious screaming "drekavac" – along with the twentieth-century terrors unleashed by fanatical boys with guns, learning to shoot in the woods outside Belgrade.

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November 4, 2006

The Cure


This one-act play takes the form of a lecture, on the subject of improving your brain, which is disrupted when the audience insist on starting to solve a murder.

(A REPRODUCTION OF CONSTABLE’S THE HAYWAIN IS PROJECTED ON THE BOARD BEHIND HENRY, THE LECTURER)

Now. What I want you to do, is think about how you would describe that scene to a blind person who won’t accept the use of any nouns. I know it’s a situation that probably won’t come up... But it's a very important exercise.


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October 22, 2006

Probe

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A scientist's brain probe unleashes surprising thoughts in two young men – from a knowledge of dead languages to a secret hatred.

A 4-minute play, performed at the Lyric Studio Hammersmith as part of a Spread the Word project.

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October 21, 2006

Bunny

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This was my first full-length play, performed at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden in 2002.

Bert takes smart drugs, which enable him to explain life, the universe and the role of the dead to his unheeding friends. The mysterious man upstairs has a more old-fashioned approach to self-improvement – become someone else.


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Emma Payne is a writer based in London. She has written for theatre, television and radio, and published in a number of magazines you've never heard of. This is her stuff. You can contact her
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