Nick Wilkes

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M6/F1 

Full length, comedy drama

Adrian has worked in an office for a long time; the same desk, the same telephone, the same office window. Having just turned forty he’s decided that the time has come to change the view.

He sets out on an hilarious journey to walk the length of Hadrian’s Wall, and finds far more than just backpacks, blisters and bricks.

A school reunion, a few military ghosts, and a short eighty-four mile wander, what could possibly go wrong?

M3/F1 

Full length, comedy

Julius is an award-winning gritty Director. Raymond is an independently wealthy posh Producer. Their much-anticipated production of Hamlet is about to premiere but their Hamlet and Ophelia have run off together.

They have until 6pm to overcome this problem or the money gets pulled. Such is the state of arts funding, such are the problems of casting!

M3/F2

Full length, comedy

Norman is an island. Actually, Norman is a telecoms engineer and has been sent to the small island of St Peters to disconnect the old red telephone box, which is no longer commercially viable. The residents are not happy about it.

With a boat to catch and a job sheet to complete, will time and tide wait for Norman? Or like the island will he end up disconnected?

M6/F2

Full length, drama

Stephen Fields is having a bad day. In fact, he’s having the worst day possible.

Although waking in an unfamiliar place, he feels fitter, healthier and more relaxed than he has in years. Things could seem pretty good?

He just doesn’t know how he got here, who brought him, or why. Worse, he may never leave…

M4

Full length, comedy 

Andrew was an English teacher. He now cleans toilets. He has a wife, a child, half a cat, and isn’t quite making ends meet.

He’s decided that if Shakespeare was indeed ‘for all time’, then he must belong in the twenty-first century too. So Andrew is off to London to seek his fortune by bringing Will Shakespeare into the digital age. Is he Fortune’s fool, or is there method in his madness? That is the question.

M5/F2

Full length, comedy

Saying ‘I do’ is easy, but finding that special someone to say ‘Will you?’ is an entirely different proposal. It’s a big step, especially when it’s the second time around and the first ended in disaster.

A groom with a past, a best man losing his best mate, and a father of the bride with just a little too much pride. It’s fair to say they all have jitters.

M2

Full length, comedy

Mike has just been left at the altar. Forty, fat and jilted, you could say his life is rubbish.

With his girlfriend gone and a hole where the wedding once was he needs more than a happy meal to make him happy. So when he sees a drinks can littering a country lane, and gives it a good hard kick, how could he possibly imagine where it would end up?

M2

Full length, dark comedy 

Dignified, diligent and good with a shovel, cousins Bill and Sam have been digging holes for years. Two and a half feet wide, eight feet long, and six feet deep.

But when they discover questions over a missing family fortune, it doesn’t take long before a few more holes start appearing.

What will be unearthed, what will be laid to rest, and what should remain quiet as the grave?

F2

One act, comedy drama 

Where is the centre of Great Britain? The big British island, the one with Scotland at the top? If you had a cardboard cut out of it, where is the geographic point where you could balance it on the tip of a pencil?

One woman knows, and this Christmas she is on a long journey to get there.

A seasonal comedy-drama of females, fir-trees and phone numbers.

M4/F1

Full length, drama comedy 

Serving overseas for many years James Bridges entirely missed his children growing up. Now divorced and estranged from his family, he hasn’t seen them for years.

Now, on his somewhat solitary seventieth birthday, his son arrives and tells him that Mog, his daughter, is getting married.

Is it too late to build bridges? Or might she look sweet, upon the seat, of a motor car made for two?

M2

Full length, comedy drama 

It’s a terrible thing to have an artistic soul, because try as you might you just won’t fit in. You can’t wear a suit, or work from nine to five, and if you try then eventually the artistic side will find you out.

So where do you fit? What life can you carve amongst the cracks of a ‘normal life’, and what does the Bank Manager say about your bad accounts when all you can offer him is a sonnet?

A tragi-comedy of life lived on the creative side.

M3

Full length, thriller

Joseph Govier was a very successful racehorse owner, trainer and gambler. He knew he was dying, so bet his entire fortune on a race, and lost. But when the debtors approached his estate for their winnings, the money had vanished.

Two men seek this fortune and will stop at nothing to recover it, but would do well to remember that ‘if wishes were horses then beggars would ride.’

M4/F1

Full length, comedy

Oscars Cinema opened in 1933. Built in the art deco style it could seat 1001 people and had all the modern conveniences.

It’s closing down. The ushers blame the new out-of-town multiplex, the Manager blames modern legislation, and the projectionist blames the resident ghost.

Will the lights finally flicker out, or will someone save the silver screen before the final reel?

M4/F1

Full length, comedy

Broadcasting from the former Glen Likestar Distillery you’re listening to Radiodram, the spirit of the Highlands… but is anyone else?

In a remote Scottish coastal town, this smallest of radio stations was conceived many years ago to ‘preserve traditional Scottish music’, and ‘unite the Glens with a sense of community’.

Then Alex arrives, a work-experience placement, from Strathclyde University, and sets the cat amongst the pigeons. Modern, English, and worse… a woman! Will the airwaves ever be the same again?

M4/F1

Full length, comedy 

Everyone is recovering from something. An illness, a wrong career choice, a bad relationship…

Two painters and decorators, busy in the living room of a recently widowed elderly gent, are trying to balance what they want out of life with what is reasonable to expect, and not always 

liking the compromise.

Especially when the widower’s daughter arrives…

M4

Full length, comedy

Out of work actors can go crazy, when they’ve no one to be (or not to be).

Resting is an hilarious glimpse into the friendships, rivalries and hopes of four young out of work actors as they wait for their big break, whilst trying to survive the day to day.

A comedy of mobile phones, drinking and paternity!

M3/F1

Full length, comedy 

Three disparate souls find themselves avoiding life, praying for a lottery win, and passing time in the park, where someone has dumped a supermarket trolley in the pond, which like their dreams, is painfully out of reach.

But which supermarket does it belong to? Is it sinking, or has it already sunk? And who of them knows a little more about all this than they should?

Have you ever had that sinking feeling?

M2

One act, comedy 

After a lifetime of holding services, administering to the parish and guiding his flock, Reverend Adam Weaver has had a life crisis and lost his faith. He may have left it in the Vicarage before he moved to his first-floor city-centre flat overlooking a car park.

With the festive season fast approaching, and a determination to avoid all things Christmas, he has vehemently decided to celebrate the season of Yuletide instead, and woe-betide anyone who confuses their festive celebrations.

Especially his son, Robin.

M8/F5

Full length, comedy 

The curtain has fallen, the performance has concluded and the audience are on their way home. For some however, the evening has only just begun...

Props to pack away, furniture to move, scenery to take down, lights to lower, ropes to haul, a lorry to pack, a romance to conclude, and no accidents please...! 

A technical comedy about keeping the show on the road.

M3/F1

Full length, comedy 

Albert works the night shift, a porter at an Isle of Man hotel where he’s worked every night for a decade. Comfortable by himself and content in his work he deals with the guest’s night-time requests.

So when two new staff are assigned to his shift he finds that more than his space is invaded. He might cope with the wisecracks of a Liverpudlian lad, but what will he do with a woman!

Is more than two company, is less than three a crowd, and will Albert ever stand on his own three feet?

M2

Full length, drama 

The Prime Minister has been assassinated. 

At a state banquet a high-ranking church official, well-known to the nation and with no previous animosity towards the government, picked up his knife, extended his arm past the Prime Minister’s throat, and drew the blade back towards him…

M9/F3

Full length, comedy drama 

It’s 1598 and Will Shakespeare needs a new theatre.

He and his company are stuck at the ageing Curtain Theatre in the wrong part of town, whilst south of the river business is booming and theatres are packing in pounds and pennies a plenty.

Against this backdrop an audacious plan is hatched with the highest of stakes, life or death, all whilst Will is writing a new little history piece called Henry V.

An epic tale of poets, playwrights and the perennial problems of playhouses.