| PLAYS |
David Slattery- Christy
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| Forever Nineteen |
| After The Tone |
| The Postcard |
"The cast of seven capture the whole feel of life
in that close knit community; characters
sparkle out of it. This is old Ireland, Milkwood
style...we go home pondering on true values."
Geoff Hammerton - Derby Telegraph
"A post card sent by an Irish emigrant to his lover on
April 11th, 1912, just before he was about to board the
Titanic on her maiden voyage and eventually auctioned
in 1990, forms the starting point for this new play...the
human story that was attached, as related by writer and
director David Christy, is priceless.
The strength and fascination of the play is that, rather
like a Thomas Hardy novel or a Greek tragedy, there is an
underlying feeling that everything that happens is about
to add a drop more oil to the wheels of fate. And this
underlying sense of fated tragedy is given added power
because Christy implicates a whole community in the
outcome, propelling the individual characters along their
allotted paths.
Young free spirit Patrick has the wanderbug. He can't
settle in the enclosed world of rural Limerick, and the
play opens with a celebratory shindig when he returns
from a stint in England. His best friend Liam, who acts as
narrator, gradually reveals the impact on this close-knit
Irish village of the discovery of Patrick's clandestine
romance with local schoolteacher Mary, who happens to
be his cousin. The incestuous affair leads inevitably to
condemnation by the church and social shame, but
while the lovers decide to escape to a new life in
America, it is Liam himself, their trusted supporter, who
emerges as a key player in their ill starred future. What's
more, it is his selfish, but well meaning interference that
decides the outcome and Patrick's lone departure on the
'unsinkable' liner." What's On - London
"The confident sweep of this richly
ironic script..." What's On - London
ironic script..." What's On - London
"The ghosts of soldiers and the very
characters the writer is researching play out
scenes while she sleeps, until the two worlds
meet in a powerful confrontation and
solution...not to be missed."
(The Scotsman)
Brian G Cooper - The Stage
"David Christy's new play is a wholly enthralling piece of
drama...with the playwrights own sensitive direction
ensuring its special atmosphere is both created and
sustained. Based on the true story of Mildred Aldrich, an
American living in France during the First World War,
who witnessed the horrors of the Battle of the Marne and
devoted herself to helping British Soldiers, the play uses
both flashback and the ghosts of the dead warriors to
create an intense, deeply atmospheric drama.
A novelist, Jenny, arrives at the house where Mildred
Aldrich lived to research a book about the First World
War. She hears someone whistling 'It's A Long Way To
Tipperary', catches the thunder of guns and in her sleep
is visited by Mildred, her maid, and three soldiers. The
Tommies do more than recall the horror and
camaraderie of the war. Their bitterness at the slaughter
endured by a whole generation persists at still being tied
to the house, for their spirits await heavenly freedom.
They remain 'Forever Nineteen', until they reveal
themselves to Jenny, who sets them free and discovers
the truth surrounding the mysterious house."
| "A wholly enthralling...intense, deeply atmospheric drama." Brian G Cooper - The Stage |
After the Tone and Song of the Whore, by
Julie Jones, were performed together as part
of Manchester City of Drama Festival.
"One act plays appear innocent enough, a simple
theme, small cast, and it's all over and back to the bar
in record time. However, if the writers are David
Christy and Julie Jones, it is best not to be fooled, for
they have conspired to present two of the most
wonderfully harrowing and emotionally taxing hours
ever likely to grace the stage.
Both productions are stunning in visual and mental
scope...they hope for a "message to go in on another
level", and there are certainly many to choose from."
City Life
After the Tone charts Daniel's struggle to come to
terms with his sexuality - and his relationship with his
dominant mother. Increasingly reclusive he conducts
and responds to his intense relationships via his
telephone answering machine - afraid to face reality
and confront those he loves face-to-face.
Julie Jones, were performed together as part
of Manchester City of Drama Festival.
"One act plays appear innocent enough, a simple
theme, small cast, and it's all over and back to the bar
in record time. However, if the writers are David
Christy and Julie Jones, it is best not to be fooled, for
they have conspired to present two of the most
wonderfully harrowing and emotionally taxing hours
ever likely to grace the stage.
Both productions are stunning in visual and mental
scope...they hope for a "message to go in on another
level", and there are certainly many to choose from."
City Life
After the Tone charts Daniel's struggle to come to
terms with his sexuality - and his relationship with his
dominant mother. Increasingly reclusive he conducts
and responds to his intense relationships via his
telephone answering machine - afraid to face reality
and confront those he loves face-to-face.
| "Wonderfully harrowing and emotionally taxing hours ever likely to grace the stage ...stunning in visual and mental scope." Melanie Dakin - City Life Manchester |
| Electronic versions of these scripts are available to purchase online: £10.00 each. |
| Click on images to see full cast lists for all productions |
Tim Bohannon as Patrick & Julia Stubbs as Mary.
Tim Bohannon as William & Lee Wosltenholme as Ted
Scott Kentell as Daniel
