See Cleese's first audition. Hear the simpering paternalism of David Frost. Be touched by the religious furore over the 'Life of Brian'. Comprehend the true meaning of the coconuts in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'!Pythonesque premiered at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, in August 2009.

1948: George Orwell is attempting to finish his final novel - Nineteen Eighty Four - before ill-health forces him off the solated Scottish island he has made his home. Holed up with a shotgun and literary-circle bombshell Sonia Brownell for company he's desperately hoping for a last chance at happiness.But George is no womaniser and is sure to make a hash of things particularly after his childhood friend and notorious lecher Cyril Connolly turns up. Will he seduce Sonia or ...

April 1994. A man sits alone in an attic extension on the cusp of becoming a Seattle suicide statistic. This man is no 'number and name' to be reported in a local newspaper. He is an icon, albeit a reluctant one. Kurt Cobain, the frontman of Nirvana, is about to pull the trigger of the gun in his hand and join the leagues of rock star deaths down the ages. Without invitation, Kurt has the curious company of a man purporting to be the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious, Kurt's hero.Roy Smiles...

Under pressure to write The Goon Show to end all Goon shows, Spike Milliganis planning his escape from a mental institution dressed in only his pyjamas.After applying to the British Museum to get his marbles back, he starts to lose his grip on reality and threatens to kill all the Goons. Will his partners in Goon - Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers - be able to stop him?Ying Tong is an hilarious and touching insight into the mind comic genius Spike Milligan who was an inspirat...

Ten plays by comedic playwright Roy Smiles, available digitally as an anthology or as single editions.Contains the plays Schmucks, Baghdad Boogie, Bombing People, Reno, The Lad Himself, Working for Mammon, Waugh in Winter, Reading Gaol, The VIP, and The Weight of Days.

Reading Gaol concerns Oscar Wilde's imprisonment in Reading Gaol after his infamous court case, persecuted relentlessly by the sadistic and pious prison governor for refusing to admit he is a common criminal. George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, Sid Edward Carson and Lord Alfred Douglas appear as Wilde justifies his self-inflicted martyrdom.'Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys' - Oscar Wilde.

Working for Mammon is a comedy drama about the London Riots of 2012 when the city seemed to go mad for a week and every shop with training shoes got looted. It concerns a teacher defeated by life who shelters a sixteen-year-old girl on the run from the police and a drug dealer who finds in her joy for life a new meaning to go on.

The Weight of Days concerns Albert Camus and his political and literary feud with Jean-Paul Sartre over the Algerian War of Independence in 1950s Paris. A young woman named Edith adds to the flames of jealousy and anger between the two writing masters.Camus was split over Algeria. He knew the Arabs deserved independence but as a Pied-Noir (French-Algerian) he could not desert the Algeria where his mother was born and lived.'For anyone who is alone, without God and ...

In The VIP Welsh film and theatre icon Richard Burton is trapped at a fog-bound Heathrow Airport in 1968 shortly after finishing filming Where Eagles Dare. He is haunted by visions of his wives Sybil and Elizabeth Taylor; his drinking companions Dylan Thomas and Peter O'Toole and his miner father. Has Burton sacrificed his considerable talent for the tarnished glory of fame, fortune and love?

Baghdad Boogie is set sometime during the Iraq Crisis. A long-term Canadian captive (Doug) finds himself in the same filth stained room as an oil executive American (Sean). As they face a long period of incarceration together the subject of war and imperialism is raised as Doug begins to unravel at the seams; a caustic comic two-hander that examines the reasons for the invasion of Iraq and the effects of being held hostage with the constant fear of execution.

Reno is the story of actress Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller's marriage imploding in Nevada during the making of her last movie The Misfits. Miller is the writer, Monroe the star, but Miller finds himself the referee between Marilyn and tyrannical director John Huston, as she finds comfort in addiction and the suffocating method acting teachings of Paula Strasberg.

Waugh in Winter is a piece about Evelyn Waugh, the acerbic right-wing author of Brideshead Revisited. A supposed BBC interviewer from Woman's Hour has come to interview 'the cultural dinosaur'. What begins as a useful ploy by Waugh to taunt and sneer at a woman of a lower class becomes an examination of his frightful snobbery and hatred of womankind. This stems from the love and rejection of his first wife 'She Evelyn' who haunts his memory whilst reminding him of the dec...