384 stories by "Daniel Perks"
Simon Vickery writes a series of three short plays that all deal with death " one about mourning a lost loved one, one about remembering one recently passed and one about dealing with the kn…
It's strange to think that in today's society, AIDS could ever be described as a 'gay man's disease'. Or that you could contract it by touching another afflicted person. Or that it was synon…
Does your family history define you as a person, even though you're not aware of the events that your predecessors lived through? Rosie (Jasmine Blackborow) is drawn to a city that her grand…
Pornography. In today's society it's everywhere. The volume of pornography available to cater for both sexes and a myriad of tastes is nowadays considered normal, almost mainstream. A number…
Mental health has become a much more important issue in today's society. It is estimated that one in four people will be affected by their mental health at one point in their life, and adver…
Crime-based plays are not a common genre anymore. Since the likes of Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond hit out cinema and TV screens, we have craved more elaborate plot lines an…
A corrugated iron shack. A wheelie bin. Five cast members dressed in dishevelled clothes and sporting maniacal grins. This is what the audience are faced with two minutes into From the Cradl…
An award-winning photographer returns to the country that made him famous. 20 years previously, in the midst of the civil war, he shot a photo of a girl in an explosion that captured the ess…
"It's not good for one's morals to see bad acting" is one of the lines that I remember most in this 90 minute one-act play. I assume that this line stuck with me throughout the production be…