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Plays: Two

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Volume 2 of 5, for young people and family audiences, features 'Harry's Dream' 1997, the story of an unhappy young Harry who suffers bullying in school and an alien who crashlands near his school and helps him overcome his fears. 'My Brother Jake' 1997, is the story of teenager Jake who betrays the trust of his younger brother and their single Mum by dealing drugs. 'Harry's Dream 2' 1998 is a continuation of the themes in the first Harry's Dream with the same characters but a different story. 'Scars' 1998, commissioned by Durham County Council to address vandalism issues amongst young people and tells a story based on real incidents. 'Colours' 1999 is a reaction to racism and a one-man show. 'Eddie' 1999 is a reflective look back on ordinary people and their achievements in the 20th century. 'Cyrano' 1999 is a comedy revamp of both Rostand's original Cyrano de Bergerac and Steve Martin's film 'Roxanne' updated and relocated to a small northern English town. 'The Key', also 1999, written entirely in verse, helps primary age children become aware of the dangers of bad decision-making in the world of household and legal drugs.

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Hooray4Ray

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Hooray4Ray

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In 2006, when I arrived here, it was a different geo-political world - Blair was British Prime Minister (while Gordon waited in the wings like an ambitious understudy eager for the principal to break a leg) and across the Channel towering Chirac was President with 'Shorty' Sarko in his shadow. Not that it made much difference to me - I was too busy trying to make a living to give much of a damn about the global picture, like most people. After hanging on by my fingertips for the summer, it was with relief that I landed myself a part-time, nine month teaching job assisting in three primary schools in the autumn. I've never looked back. Part self-help, part-memoir, this is an accurate record of my time teaching Britain's biggest export - its language - to our French neighbours 2006-2016. It's also a tribute to the legendary Raymond Murphy, author of world-renowned versatile, practical and informative teaching books, some of which have kept me on constant work for over 10 years.

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Gauguin's Ghost Story

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The ghost of French painter Paul Gauguin finds temporary sanctuary in the imagination of obscure British writer Antony J Stowers.

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Plays: One

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Volume 1 of 5 features The Waiting Room - 1983 in a deserted railway station waiting room. A stranger waits, but is he waiting for a train or is there some other, more mysterious reason? . . . The Bond - Kick-started by certain scenes in Harold Pinter's 'The Homecoming' on British television around 1984 and by regular trips to Manchester on the train to see my girlfriend in student accommodation, 'The Bond' sees the return from Australia of a man to a family of small-time crooks in England, claiming to be their long-lost brother. Neither we the audience nor they the family are quite sure if the man is who he says he is. When it comes to family, blood is always thicker than water, but must we take those loyalties to our graves? . . . The Conformist - Growing up in Italy in the mid-1920's, lonely and largely ignored by his wealthy parents, 13 year-old Marcello Clerici lives in a fantasy world. After accidentally shooting a chauffeur, Marcello determines to live as 'normal' a life as possible by adhering to the demands of Mussolini's Fascism. Twenty years later, as Italy surrenders, he bumps into the chauffeur who hadn't died at all and realises how his entire life was built on a lie.The play was adapted from 'The Conformist' by Alberto Moravia and performed in 1985. . . . London Cousins - It is the late 1980's and three young men, migrants to London, all from different parts of the UK - Scotland, North East England and Brighton - are brought together by fate, choice, coincidence and economic reality, their lives brushing almost imperceptibly against each other as they seek to redefine their identities in a rapidly-changing world. Barely conscious of who they are or what they seek, they surrender to the life-altering forces of the sprawling metropolis known as London. "London Cousins", based on real events, started life as an audition speech for the actor Steve Payne in 1988. . . . 1979 - written in 1984 it concerns school-leaver Graham who tries to adjust to adulthood. With his working class background, limited education and narrow view, he vows to reinvent himself and make sense of the world he inhabits: the economic wasteland of Thatcher's Britain in the early 1980's. Unable to adjust, he ends up in a psychiatric ward until escaping with Emily to create their own Nirvana.

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Killing It

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Killing It

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This is a book for those who smoke and want to stop and for those who've stopped but need reassurance. I'm the latter. I started and stopped four times and this final time was the last. I'm never going to take the crown from Allan Carr for writing a practical book about quitting smoking so I've written my own, consisting of cold facts, personal memories, home-spun philosophies and hard life experience. I'll make a deal with you: as long as you're reading this book, you won't smoke. I don't mean just as long as you're physically holding the book in your hands and lifting the words from the page with your eyes, even if you read a little, a few pages, then put it down and go off and do something else and then come back to it again. No. As long as there's a relationship between you and the contents of this book, you won't smoke. Is that a deal? Just remember: there's no dignity in slavery. If you want dignity - you've got to be emancipated.

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No. 1 - Limited Edition

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No. 1 - Limited Edition

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Set in Regency England 1810-1825, 'No. 1' draws on the real and the imagined from the North East of England present at the birth of the railways, starting on 18th September 1810 and finishing there on 28th September 1825, the day after the first ever railway trip between two towns, a first that changed history. History didn't record it inadvertently carrying a boy fleeing from a miscarriage of justice and an ex-Waterloo veteran intent on silencing him, but history can now be straightened out. In this ambiitous recreation by Darlington-born writer Antony J (Tony) Stowers, fact and fiction are blended through real-life personalities, known historical events and ordinary people whose lives were impacted by this revolutionary technology. It also features a re-imagined but detailed account of the opening itself on 27th September 1825. This is a special limited 500 edition print run featuring the cover by Terence Cuneo and available exclusively to buyers/residents of the United Kingdom.

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A Body of Work

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They will tell you this book has to be categorized under 'memoir' and they may be right but for me it's a working journal that straddles the end of the 20th century and shows how to create something from nothing how to turn a dream into a reality and how to make simple live theatre that challenges and inspires. It takes in my humble beginnings when I was on the dole back in Nowheresville in the early 80's and looking for a direction and so fell into writing theatre plays and performance poetry and then (eventually) getting into drama school in London and then spending the next ten years after that trying to reconcile what I felt was expected of me with what my heart truly wanted to do. The last third of the book is the result of that epic struggle.

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Lewis & Number One

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Lewis & Number One

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A fantastic time-travelling adventure story that takes the reader back to the opening of the Stockton to Darlington railway on 27th September 1825 as seen through the eyes of Lewis Noble, 10.

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Krono

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Krono

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A personal collection of rants, poems, short stories and other wordy experiments from 1981-2012.

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Plays: Four

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The Dishwasher - A worker in a nameless, faceless, basement kitchen begins his work as a dishwasher and relishes informing us of every fine detail of his job. A disturbing, nightmare-ish study of the uneducated, unqualified and oppressed workers of the world finding their voice. . . . Confessions Of A Rock 'n' Roll Star - The world has rock n roll stars, for that we must be thankful. Sadly, we're not all going to get to be one. Nonetheless, millions of us can still pose in front of our mirrors with tennis racquets and sweeping brushes slung between our legs like fake guitars and dream and that's better than nothing. Featuring classic rock tracks, wallow indulgently in a one-man fantasy guitar solo as homage to a wasted youth. . . . Gauguin's Ghost - An informal study of the life of the artist Paul Gauguin. A well-researched piece, it explores the idea that Gauguin, on his deathbed, sold his soul to a witch doctor in exchange for immortality in spirit form. We meet those who shaped his art and hear tell of how he pursued his own singular vision at all costs. . . . Tommy Greaves - Is an alternative take on 'Billy Elliot'. Older than Billy, Tommy tells his own, maturer story of the grittier realities of what it meant to be young and unemployed during the Miner's Strike of 1984. This work was given a public reading in English in Paris in February 2015. . . . Unspoken - Written in 2015 as 'Two Gendarmes' and then updated in 2019 as 'Unspoken', it is a story of an older, more seasoned French policeman instructing a younger female recruit to the obvious and the not-so-obvious elements of the job. first performed in French May 2023 in Nantes, France.

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The Summer of '89

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The Summer of '89

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The summer of '89' is the rough-and-ready, rapidly-paced first novel from Antony J. Stowers charting both thick and thin slices of the life and times of northerner 'John' from May to August 1989 in London, having returned from a self-imposed six-month exile in Israel after ten hectic years in England's capital. Based on the author's first-hand experiences, it's a portrait of a young man, footloose and fancy free, trying to come to terms with what motivates and drives him forward whilst occasionally coming up for air from the ocean of danger and doubt, strangers and deceit, drugs and drink and casual work and casual sex that he calls 'life'.

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Plays: Three

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Somebody Up There Likes Us - In a country of much water but little fertile land and the other of abundant crops but limited water, two border guards diligently guard the frontier between them. With no common language, they maintain a fragile peace until one day an unidentified aircraft drops a small wooden box by parachute, inside is a bottle that contains a strange liquid. . . . Le Petoman - Based loosely on the biography 'Le Petomane' by Caradec and Nohain, 'Le Petomane' was aka Joseph Pujol, a real-life baker who hit upon the novelty of turning wind into a ribald entertainment, packing the Moulin Rouge, proof positive that sophistication and crudity make strange bed-fellows! . . . Pressure - Released after ten months for good behaviour on a two-year sentence for dealing, 'Pressure' is a study of how pressure from former friends and contacts continue to tempt him back to the path that caused his downfall. It relies on an inner world of action rather than speech and silences in which outside interruptions create a menacing mood. The pressure to cope with that menace is also a challenge for the audience. Space Station - On a dark and lonely hill outside of town two strangers meet. One has gone to set up a telescope to try and spot re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere of a decommissioned Russian space station and the other has gone to distract the former while his fellow villain burgles the former's home. Chance plays a part when the sole bolt from the space station lands nearby. Like Riding A Bike (a feature-length screenplay) - Set in North East England, a fatherless boy of 9, David Lovatt, disturbed by deja-vu and dreams, bright but bullied at school (and unable to ride a bike) lives on a run-down estate near Durham City with Mum Lisa, who struggles with low-paid jobs whilst hiding a secret: a hit-and-run accident years before in which Lisa's unpunished ex killed a female pedestrian and her son. Lisa and David have been running ever since. Submitted to the Children's Film and Television Foundation in 2004, it made number four of a list of films up for production but sadly they had enough budget for only the first three.

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Plays: Five

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A Horse With No Name - Iraq, the spring of 2003. The Battle of Baghdad rages. One retired Iraqi soldier - Ali - and one active American soldier - Rick - are trapped by rubble in a secret basement bar. Rick and Ali somehow make it through the two acts without killing each other but getting to know each other instead, finally ending up on the roof where they play a real-time game of Classic pool - not a staged game - which, depending on who wins the game - offers alternate endings to the play. . . . One Of The Lads - As NATO forces enter Iraq the media feeds a constant river of images of war into the daily lives of millions in Britain through TV. One such home is that of a young waster who has just died injecting heroin with two other lowlifes and one ambitious young woman determined to alter her destiny whatever the cost. Violence overseas or violence at home - what's the difference? . . . The Next Life - Blended as a hybrid theatre play/film from the book 'All this is mine' by Tony Stowers, this is the story of a young northern dealer drifting through London's post-Thatcherist underbelly in the early 90's. Rob Barlow is the key antagonist whose imagination and paranoia conflict in a seedy London of hustlers and thieves, pimps and backstabbers, corrupt journalists and nouveaux riche wasters, as he drifts inexorably to a disaster that offers a slim strand of redemption. . . . X - Saturday night beneath the plastic palm tree and two pairs of dissatisfied male friends who've never met before (one gay couple, the other straight) hit town. By Sunday, one will have been re-born, one will have won insight, one will have lost everything and one will still be bad at playing Dominoes. Originally entitled 'A Town Called X' and in part inspired by the title of the American film 'American History X' and the murder of Matthew Shepherd by homophobes in the late 90's in mid-west America, 'X' is performed over 60 minutes, promenade style in untypical spaces and with the music of David Bowie. 'X' is a challenging but important piece of work . It was translated into Czech and performed at Prague Pride in August 2015 and then toured in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany.

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Gauguin's Ghost Story

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Hooray4Ray

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The Summer of '89

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Lewis & Number One

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Lewis & Number One

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A fantastic time-travelling adventure story that takes the reader back to the opening of the Stockton to Darlington railway on 27th September 1825 as seen through the eyes of Lewis Noble, 10.

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A Body of Work

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Killing It

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20/20 Visions

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20/20 Visions

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Continuing the adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, a not-so-innocent Englishman abroad in France, entering a dark period for humanity as the first global pandemic for a century bursts upon his world. Like most, he tries to take it in his stride and carry on as normal but what is 'normal' in a world where human contact is dramatically reduced and human mobility is vastly restricted? He does his best at work as a teacher and at play as a writer, dramatist, reader, book-lover and gardener, singing the post-Brexit blues, dealing with lockdowns, masks, COVID tests and vaccinations, he struggles on, like everyone, blindly fumbling forward to a hopeful future with pathos, humour and irony . . .

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