Comedy
First Performed at The 2006 Edinburgh Festival.
When Floyd and Kate invite their best friends Hugo and Sophie round for dinner to help them sort out their marital problems, private and well-intentioned arrangements are made for the couples to meet individually and talk more. Within a few short scenes the play jumps ahead in time to the two couples meeting again having swapped partners the year before. The play then traces how this came about and becomes a patchwork of time and incidents. As the denial and self-deception unfolds and the almost farcical attempts by the couples to explain why they are spending so much time with their best friend’s husband/wife increase, the play jumps back and forth in time. Eventually the evening of the four of them meeting again in a restaurant progresses revealing a number of surprises. The play’s final scene takes us back to the very first time that Floyd and Kate introduced Hugo to Sophie – and echoes of the very first scene of the play resound.
“A script is just a pile of words waiting to become something more, so to have your work performed is always a thrill. To have your work published is a rewarding bonus and privilege.” - RE
An anthology of seasonal sketches and meditations ready to perform in a matter of minutes.
“Poignant and funny … I am sure Sound Bites will reach and touch a wide audience of readers, performers and audiences alike.”
Dr. Rowan Williams
(Former Archbishop of Canterbury)
“Richard Everett’s sketches are skewers through the pomposity of religion, that can also provide a well marinated kebab for the soul.”
Milton Jones, comedian
(TV’s ‘Mock The Week’)
Set in a clergy household, the play opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2006 starring Penelope Keith where it played to a record-breaking 26,000 people in 3 weeks. It now has over 100 productions to its credit.
“Richard Everett has written a warm, glowing, serious comedy, like an Ayckbourn play finished by JM Barrie.”
The Sunday Times
Find out more"Writing for the stage is the most exciting discipline and where I am most at home. It's live, it's risky and it's challenging. Attending rehearsal is such a privilege, not in order to protect my work but to find out what I've written - good actors will show me what my play is about." - RE
Set in a clergy household, the play opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2006 starring Penelope Keith where it played to a record-breaking 26,000 people in 3 weeks. It now has over 100 productions to its credit.
“Richard Everett has written a warm, glowing, serious comedy, like an Ayckbourn play finished by JM Barrie.”
The Sunday Times
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First produced at Zimmertheater, Heidelberg 2010.
“A thrilling, stirring and wise play about mourning, guilt, and responsibility.”
“This is a profoundly psychological and human play.”
RHEIN-NECKAR-ZEITUNG
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“Richard Everett’s comedy of manners .. is beautifully written and performed. Everett’s skill as a writer has succeeded in making all the characters sympathetic .. it is a testimony to good writing that by the end of the play we care about the outcome of every one of them”
The Scotsman
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“With a touch of Ayckbourn’s black humour, it made you think, made you laugh and left me wanting to read everything ever written by Everett”
Wokingham Times
Family comedy drama.
Published by Samuel French
First produced as ‘Hindsight’ at the Watermill Theatre Newbury. Later national UK tour. Now regularly performed by amateur companies.
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Comedy drama set in the 1990’s.
Published by Samuel French
First produced Theatre Royal Windsor and toured. Later produced at The Watermill Theatre, Newbury and The Contra Kreis Theater in Bonn, Germany. Regularly performed by amateur companies.
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Published by Samuel French
First produced Theatre Royal Windsor. Later enjoyed a 3 month run at the main comedy house Theater Am Kurfurstendamm, Berlin. Regularly performed by amateur companies.
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First produced Theatre Royal Windsor. Later The Royal Theatre, Northampton and national UK tour. Also Theater am Dom in Koln, Germany. Regularly performed by amateur companies.
Find out moreA traditional English wedding complete with marquee, dysfunctional relatives, and family secrets revealed in the ladies portaloos provide the setting for this contemporary comedy.
Currently looking for a home – script available on request.
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Find out more“Richard Everett has written a warm, glowing, serious comedy, like an Ayckbourn play finished by JM Barrie.”
The Sunday Times
Find out more… It explores what happens when ‘blame’ has more to do with the ‘accountability’ of all the characters after a tragic accident … It was a perfect evening with a deeply appreciative audience
Manhnheimer Morgen
"Writing for animation is such a blast. Even for pre-school audiences where most of my work has been, it requires all the skills and obeys all the rules of screenwriting and storytelling, but in microcosm. Also, children are wonderfully savage critics, they don’t do ‘polite’ - if it’s not funny they leave the room!" - RE
30 minute feature film using wonderful ‘stop motion’ animation by a Russian studio, tells the story of Joseph from the Bible. It was commissioned by BBC Wales as part of the Bible in Animation Series for BBC TV and nominated for a BAFTA award.
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26 x 5 min episodes of 3D animation featuring a garage of eight chatty and colourful buses. Narrated by Brian Conley and aired on The Children’s Channel and Tiny Living.
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26 x 5 minutes episodes adapted from Roger Hargreaves’ wonderfully crazy series of books. Narrated by Ronnie Corbett and produced by Terry Ward and repeatedly shown in CITV & CBBC.
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16 x 10 minute episodes created and written for Dorling Kindersley, and aired by Channel 4 and Channel 5.
Nothing makes small children laugh more than adults getting it wrong. This is a series about two bumbling construction workers who are permanently in a mess, and a little girl, Daisy, who is forever having to rescue them. Directed by Terry Ward and narrated by George Layton.
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15 x 10 minute episodes aired by ITV and featuring the voices of Lulu and Tony Robinson, it follows the loveable circus elephant through her adventures as she makes her way back to the jungle.
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A 30 minute film featuring a host of the famous characters. Jack gives his Christmas letter for Santa to Mr Forgetful to post. Oh dear! Narrated by Geoffrey Palmer and hugely popular on screen and DVD.
Find out more"Movies are marathons and writing a screenplay has become a contemporary science, but whatever the audience or size of project I find it's always about the simple art of storytelling - which I often find elusively difficult." - RE
Feature film telling the true story of two army dentists who in 1942 decided to invade occupied France on their own.
Starring Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek Jacobi, Phyllida Law, James Fleet. Directed by John Henderson.
“Utterly delightful film… rarely seen since the great Ealing days”
Simon Rose, BBC Radio
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Twins in the womb considering whether there might be something beyond the amniotic fluid. A Jerusalem Trust Award finalist 2015.
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An official from a government department called the KGB (Keeping God in his Box) collecting WIGUL forms (What I’m Giving Up For Lent) from the unsuspecting public.
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A confused Roman soldier tries to explain to an impatient Chief Priest that a bit of a ‘situation’ has developed at the dead Galilean’s tomb he was asked to guard.
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30 minute feature made by a Russian studio in ‘stop frame’ animation telling the story of Joseph from the Old Testament. BAFTA nominated.
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“Jack’s Christmas Letter” a 30 minute adventure featuring a host of the famous Mr Men and Little Miss characters.
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Written in 2000, Under the Black Flag is an action-packed animated tale of friendship, pirates, Spanish galleons and lost treasures.
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Based on a workshop with the L’Arche Community of adults with additional needs exploring ‘what does it mean to be important?’ – like James Bond or the Queen!
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Based on another workshop with the L’Arche Community exploring images from the Sermon on the Mount.
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