Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category

'the outside of the club, indecently exposed by the rising sun'

(First performed 29th February 2010 at Jewish Book Week / JCC Writers’ Football Literary Event, London)

The first panel. The picture is drawn from a bird’s eye perspective, looking down upon cramped rooftops beginning to bake. Cables and wires stretch from one side of the road to another, and in the background are Bauhaus-style apartment blocks jutting with cuboids. The caption reads: ‘November 2008. Tel Aviv, 4am. The sun rises on a city still silent with sleep’. Read the rest of this entry »

'You don't have any bananas, do you?'

First performed at the Literary Death Match Oxford, 4 November 2009

Spotlight on SPEAKER, dressed in smart suit, standing impassively. SPEAKER reaches into inside pocket and takes out a pair of sunglasses, puts them on, clearly impeding vision. SPEAKER delivers monologue in the rhetorical style of a preacher or a politician, without showing any sign of humour, whilst walking amongst the audience. SPEAKER returns to the stage for the final lines. Read the rest of this entry »