Bøger af Colin Crowther

They may be mother and daughter yet they are strangers to each other, still refusing to face what really happened that day. No wonder they cannot move on with their lives. It takes another stranger, Cassiel, a passing fisherman to help them disentangle the weeds that are drowning them. But Cassiel is more than he appears...A hauntingly beautiful, many-layered tale of love and forgiveness, played out on an abandoned jetty

Six very different women (17 - 35) have come on a residential weekend to see if they have what it takes for the most difficult job in the world. As we sit in on their awkward interviews, disastrous attempts at teamwork and revealing private conversations, we begin to understand why so few women really have the calling...to be a nun.

Tom, suffering from heart disease and aware that he does not have long to live, commissions Jan, an artist, to paint a picture that Tom can leave to his wife Brenda. From this simple premise Colin Crowther has created a many-layered, thoughtful play exploring illness, grief and the difficulties of caring for the dying, threaded with a lucid discussion of the redemptive power of art.|1 woman, 1 man, 2 women or men

Love story or ghost story? This play shows a man and a woman meeting, apparently on a park bench, apparently to say goodbye. But who is leaving and why?

Based on a true event, Silent Night is the heart-warming story of an ordinary family in extraordinary times: the Blitz. A direct hit on their Anderson shelter leaves Wilf, Rose, Lily, Jack and their tortoise Harold awaiting the call to St Peter and the Pearly Gates.

This dramatization of the biblical story of Noah offers children a chance to practise their early acting skills. They should learn how to focus their acting by being able to relax, stand still, mime movements while standing on the spot, and work together as a chorus.

"If only I had my life over again." We all say it, but what would we really do differently if we had the chance? The hero of this play gets that chance. At the point of his death, he revisits himself as a teenager, a young man, as a disgruntled middle-aged husband and as a newborn child.

A man facing a terminal illness comes to a deserted beach, despondent and raging. He meets a woman who tells him that in the 5th century, Dwynwen, maid-in-waiting to the queen, deserted her faithless lover to live there. Dwynwen appears to the man and opens his eyes to the love and care of others.

A couple are nervously dressing for a party in the hotel downstairs. Each glumly despairs of being able to live up to their partner's expectations. The trouble is that the person they see in the mirror is very different from the person their partner sees. She sees herself as a dowdy, boring frump, but he sees her as charming and kind.