Projects in categories: Fiction

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'All the world's a stage, and all the men and woman are merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven.' William Shakespeare.





Merely Playing marries Shakespeare with Modern Britain and defines age through the family. With music from The Waterboys and Naomi.

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A young boy is torn from his American roots and comes to live in a strange world where modern science is being used to free ancient foes, renewing a titanic struggle for dominion over the earth.





In ancient times the vast army of the evil sorcerer Mordred (Craig Sheffer) brought the legendary King Arthur Pendragon (Patrick Bergin) and his knights of the Round Table to their knees. In desperation, Merlin, the Wizard (Rik Mayall) used the immense power of Stonehenge to banish Mordred to the Netherworld and consigned Arthur and his knights to a long, dark sleep, promising future generations that Arthur would be on-hand to save the world should Mordred ever escape to threaten it again.





Fifteen hundred years later, Merlin's spell is the subject of legend - and is weakening. Scientist Joan Maxwell (Tia Carrere) is experimenting with the magnetic flows of the Earth, the precise source of Merlin's magic. She has made contact with Mordred and in return for his promise of power and freedom from the ethics that constrain modern science, is using her knowledge to free the sorcerer from his prison.





American teenager, Ritchie Gould is plunged into the ages-old battle when his father dies and Ritchie's mother moves them to her former home in England. When Ritchie arrives, Merlin's spell is already all but destroyed by Maxwell's meddling. Arthur and his knights are aware, fifteen hundred years out of place, and Mordred is preparing to forge a dimensional gate to freedom. The only thing standing between Mordred and success are the ragged loyalties of Lancelot (Adrian Paul) and Guinevere whom Merlin banished along with him.





In a tale of myth, mythology, demons and duels spanning fifteen centuries, the forces of good and evil once more do battle. And at stake is the world as we know it.

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An orphan is drafted in from the army to boost the Merseyside Police Force, bringing with him an array of martial arts skills and an unhealthy addiction to the Americanised 'Cop' films which he models himself on.

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Set in a park during a typical Friday night's events, Sebastian invites Fiona to witness the freakshow of everyday sights, whilst he assumes the role of a



circus ringmaster introducing each of the 'acts'.

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In the depths of an industrial metropolis lurk the dark secrets of mind transference.

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Two girls catch a cab and decide to do a runner. They start talking to the cab driver, who confides that his girlfriend has been unfaithful. Feeling guilty, one girl confesses to the impending runner. He doesn't hear.

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As a storm moves over Cardiff, the water levels begin to rise in the bay. A group of musicians play in a church on the waterfront, the radio transmission of their performance linking people and events together in the changing landscape of the bay area.

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A visual poem exploring the incongruous life in Cardiff Bay as it evolves from industrial dockland to modern waterfront development.

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It is a hot midsummer's eve and the old Count departs his estate to celebrate elsewhere. He leaves behind his beautiful daughter Julie, the last in the long line of his noble family. She is alone with the servants. Miss Julie is despondent after the breaking off of her engagement to be married. She dances and drinks with the servants who certainly do not accept her as one of their own. A little drunk, she finds herself alone in the kitchen with Jean, her father's footman.





Jean is a strange man. Handsome and anarchistic, resentful of the class system but greedy to rise to the top. For many years he has watched and desired the young Miss Julie. They carry on drinking and become involved in an intense and revealing conversation which draws them together as the night goes on. They hide in his room when the servants come into the kitchen and he seduces her.





But by now we have seen that Miss Julie is in a deeply distressed and sometimes unbalanced state of mind. Tragedy follows as Jean humiliates her and pushes her towards the self-destruction that she has been hinting at all evening. She kills herself.

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When a backpacking guy falls in love with a woman called Mitzy Boo, their future is finally terminated, in the heart of the Panamanian jungle, by a deadly Bushmaster snake.

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An anarchic black comedy about a killer's attempts to remain polite when interrupted in mid-murder by the binman. Inspired by an early Al Murray routine.

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W Przeciagu tells the simple story of the emotional fall-out from a one-night meeting between a woman and a teenage boy. In the still, quiet of the morning awkwardness and misunderstandings grow, until the boy realises she has a lover and leaves.