IMPETUS THEATRE Co presents

Jonathan Collings

Storyteller    Playwright

jon@jumble.freeserve.co.uk     01902 425587

Jonathan’s work as a playwright stretches over more than twenty-five years.

He is particularly adept at writing plays to commission, taking into account the number, ages, skills and interests of the cast members. He frequently writes for young people - he has had work commissioned by Youth Theatres such as Central Youth Theatre (Wolverhampton) and Stage 65 (Salisbury), and by TIE companies in Salisbury. Watford, and the West Midlands.

If you are a school, youth group, or theatre company, and would like to discuss a project, or find out more about Jonathan’s work, please contact him - his phone number and email address are at the top of the page.

Not all Jonathan’s work is for younger age groups. He has written and performed a series of One Man Shows all based on Victorian popular culture; as well as a number of other plays, of varying length. You can find out more about his scripts, and read extracts, by following the links on the list below.

All scripts can be purchased, and can be sent as attachments or as hard copies - email jon@jumble.freeserve.co.uk for more details.

His main works are as follows:

• I Can Hear Music (short play inspired by Peter Blake’s painting The Beach Boys, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2007)
• Gentle Eyes (a ghost story, Bantock House Museum, 2006)
• Elementary, Father Brown (multi-role detective story for one performer,     Newhampton Arts Centre, 2006)
• The Wild, Wild West (pantomime for Central Youth Theatre, Arena Theatre Wolverhampton, 2005)
• Invisible Darkness (drama about Japanese POW camp, devised with members of Central Youth Theatre, Newahmpton Arts Centre, 2005)
• A Wop Bop A Loo Bop A Wop Bam AAAAAAGGHHRR! (rock’n’roll murder mystery, Wolverhampton Girls’ High School 2005)
• The Time Machine (pantomime for Central Youth Theatre, Arena Theatre, 2004)
• The Fate of Franklin (play for solo performer (F) Newhampton Arts Centre 2004)
• The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (pantomime for Central Youth Theatre, Arena Theatre 2003)
• Dick Turpin (pantomime for Central Youth Theatre, Arena Theatre 2002)
• Heroes (drama set in 1940s, 2M, 2F 2000)
• A Christmas Carol (one-man version of Dickens classic, touring 1998)
• “a frozen finger tracing out my spine...” (an evening of Victorian Ghost Stories, touring 1996)
• Up The Ladder and Down The Wall (play about marching bands for Stage 65 youth theatre, Salisbury Playhouse 1988
• Role Play (play about gender politics, Salisbury Playhouse TIE 1987)
• Who Do You Think You Are? (play about fostering and identity for Watford Palace TIE, 1983)
• Harry (play for solo performer (F) Croydon Warehouse 1981)

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