Sound Bites

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’)

Entertaining Angels

Stage play. Full length comedy drama.

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

Something To Say

Stage play. Drama. One act – 60 minutes.

Maddie has something important to confess to her husband David, but David is not in the mood to listen. Her desperate attempts to get his attention initially fail and when she finally gets through to him and makes her confession, David’s reaction is both unexpected and extreme. It is not what Maddie had anticipated or hoped for and as David’s response becomes increasingly more bizarre, what unfolds is an evening that neither of them had expected.

“This darkly comedic and beautifully observed study of infidelity probes a marriage in crisis with touching insight and wit.”

Present From The Past

Stage play. Full length comedy drama.

Frances, Howard and Rachel have always believed that their father, David, died in a boating accident when they were children … but he didn’t. When the three siblings gather to clear out the house of their recently deceased mother, several long-hidden secrets are revealed, but none of the skeletons to fall from their collective closets is more tangible or more shocking than David, who arrives with the news that the house is, in fact, now his.

Close To The Wind

Stage play. Full length comedy drama.

Gerry believes his twenty three year marriage is fine. Kate, his wife,  feels differently – their lives have been a series of distractions, first home, children, second home etc, but now the children are going, Kate feels useless and wonders if it all hasn’t been a terrible mistake.

Returning home after a disastrous and abandoned visit to the theatre, hi-jacked by Gerry’s lively mother, Mary, Gerry and Kate attempt to salvage the evening at a local restaurant – but it just makes a bad evening out into a worse one. Daughter Louise and her boyfriend Julian are key players in this comedy of marital mishap and mid-life crisis, as are Mary and her beau, Roy. However, the end of this amusing and highly perceptive play finds Gerry and Kate caught on the sofa for all the world themselves like mischievous teenagers.

Hand Over Fist

Stage play. Full length comedy drama.

Set in the financially heady days of the 1980’s Angus returns home to convalesce after a heart attack brought on, wife Connie believes, by City job stress but he finds a less than peaceful household awaiting him. Sid and Gary, the builders, are endeavouring to finish the kitchen extension, son Philip is permanently on the phone dealing shares and sniffing coke, and Angus’ inept brother Roger and long-suffering wife Gwen, keep turning up with their never-ending financial problems. For Angus, going back to work suddenly seems a better way to re-cuperate, much to Connie’s frustration whose valiant attempts to get him to relax make Angus even more stressed.

Publisher’s note: ” This sharply observed study of contemporary mores has enjoyed a number of successful productions in the UK and abroad. Unusually, the author offers an alternative lighter ending for companies finding the original ending too dark.”

Happy Event

Stage play. Full length comedy/farce.

A pregnant wife is loath to inform her husband in case it jeopardises his career. Telling the neighbours, however, does not help…