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23 July Monsters, Super Heroes and a Golden Quiche, Natalie Conner - ever felt like you just don't like Mondays? Well, Alicia Stevens detests Fridays; those end of the week blues. But can you blame her as she faces a giant Helgo monster being controlled by the biggest failure of a mad scientist, Crazy Pete, with the only two remaining super heroes left to help her, Bi-Man and Banter-Boy... and don't even get her started on the one and only Legend who just can't grasp the concept that mortals can die.
22 July The Other Life, Ajmal Raza - a short story about the inner turmoil experienced by a man who is broken-hearted.
20 July Imbroglio, Andrew McEwan - Michael Tomatoes, artist, sculptor and manic-depressive, is a man at pains to discover the nature of self; even if that means being someone else. A tool of fate, he sticks his fingers in the electric socket of life and wonders about suffering and loss, flirting dangerously with a melancholic state… Is his obsession with numbers the result of a robotic condition, metal under the skin, or a paranoiac attempt to decipher the intricacies of a more mundane and human predicament? That is: breathing, sucking in and blowing out all those other selves that compose a reality at once familiar and strange… Warm Refrigerator, Andrew McEwan - Samuel Dickinson is a private detective caught between past and future. His own past and other's. Arriving in the bleak industrial town of Palace Porad, unclear even why he's there, he's quickly immersed in an increasingly dark and surreal half-world of kidnap and murder. Here are lost and stolen souls; story-tellers hinting at any number of futures. Lives in book form. In Purgatory.
9 July Matthew, You Look Great!, Christopher Bate - a play about two friends, Matthew and Emily, who grew up together. Matthew is shy and easily embarrassed and Emily is the exact opposite. Their tried and tested friendship has worked for years but, after a drunken night of misadventure, the dynamic suddenly becomes awkward and new, pesky feelings emerge. The fate of their treasured friendship rests on a level of maturity that niether of them may be ready for.
5 July One Big Uncertainty, Rej daPersa - a short story which spends about 15 minutes delving into the mind of Anthony Carvalho as he waits for his date, dealing with sexual confusion and the few prejudices ethic minorities face in Greater London. Part of a set of short stories, all with inter-linking characters who are experiencing dissatisfaction in their lives.
1 July Mrs Molly Sweet, John Collings - a musical about a woman who deals with the loss of her husband and the appearance of his ghost, her relationship with their son and a new man in her life. * a free CD of the backing tracks to the music in this piece is available. Please email contact@mybooxite.com |
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