ASHES, Nuclear Terrorists Attack Hollywood is a 1979 prophetic screenplay about Jake Horner, an ex-U.S. Air Force Officer turned peace activist, who builds a scale demonstration nuclear weapon to warn the public how easy it is to do. Ahmad, a Mid-East terrorist, steals and arms the nuclear weapon and races to Southern California to set it off in heavily populated Los Angeles.

Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company.But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.EX MACHINA is an intense psychological th...

In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. This was the last stage production to be associated with Dickens, who died in June 1870. The play opened at the Adelphi Theatre on 26 December 1867.

This was the first time I felt as involved in film as in working in theatre. My immersion in Parade’s End from the writing to the finishing touches took up the time I might have given to writing my own play but, perhaps to an unwarranted degree, I think of this Parade’s End as mine, such was the illusion of proprietorship over Ford’s characters and story.—Tom Stoppard, from the IntroductionTom Stoppard’s BBC / HBO dramatization of Ford Madox Ford’s ...

When King Charles II was dying, the name of only one of his many mistresses was in his mind and on his lips: that of Nell Gwyn. Born in extreme poverty, forced to become a child prostitute, she went on the stage and became the most popular actress of the time until Charles took her into his bed, where her beauty, wit and liveliness made her in the end preferable to his other many mistresses, who were either common prostitutes found for him in the bawdy-houses or on the streets by the royal...

When Monsieur Gourmand dies, his family comes to mourn...and eat....and eat...and eat.

Cathy and Rick are the owners of a janitorial company. Their employees are ruining homes and annoying their employers. Janitor Fat John eats the oysters, a treat for Mrs. Schmitts daughter. In another house, Fat John was chased out with ripe tomatoes. Stale Kronchy, who starts shooting at Rick, is chasing Rick in the freeway. Stale was held by a fat black policewoman who kept forting, shouting, and slapping Stale while the wind blows away her wig. The janitorial companys owner Rick is maki...

A fanciful re-imagining of bin Laden's final years, written with Sacha Baron Cohen in mind for the title role, Osama's Nuts dumps bin Laden into an alternate universe where God has a sense of humor — and justice.What happens when the world's most misogynistic, homophobic, narcissistic bully explores his feminine side? What's the real reason we haven't seen photos of bin Laden's body after the Abbottabad raid? Here's your chance to find out!

A woman brings her husband to a remote cottage in the middle of nowhere to give him what he always wanted – peace and quiet of his personal fortress of solitude in the northern snowy wilderness. He well deserves to get away from it all, to step out of the rat race every middle-aged, professional family man has to endure. She leaves him alone with supply of food and booze, and his only lifeline to the world – a cell phone.The man enjoys this almost savage life far away from annoying ...

A monologue for two male actors suitable as an audition or showcase piece. A thought provoking play dealing with the various forms of power .... elected and acquired. Is there any moral difference between a politician and a gangster? Between a banker and a loan shark?

A new collection of plays from Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer, has written some 50 books for children and adults.

Break Into Writing For Television takes you from the very first line of the script through to becoming a regular writer for soaps and 'continuing dramas'. It starts with the basics of different types of script and production, and moves on to getting ideas, shaping character and dialogue, re-writing, pitching work and the practicalities of who does what in the production world, in both the UK and the US. Structured around a practical, progressive, goal-orientated approach, each chapter cont...