I am a novelist, and short story writer, these are my mediums. Occasionally, on a dark night when the wind if form the north and the whispering of ravens is at it worst I may even write poetry, but I will almost certainly deny this… What I am not is a playwright or performer. the former is not a skill set I have ever pursued.

As for the latter, well life is oft said to be a performance, though who or what forms the audience for that performance is a matter of some debate. What callow gods do watch us without interest nor care?

I did however spent a great many years of my life performing for one audience or other. Boyfriend, lover, father, husband, sports fan, music fan, son, jester, reader, drinker, goth, posser, and many other roles along the way. Unconvincing performances all, because I am all these things and none. But we perform for those we wish like us, love us, or occasionally just need us. Some perform these roles without seeming effort, perhaps because they inhabit the roles in a way I never have. I was never good at inhabiting these roles that others may wish me to be, or indeed the roles I wish to inhabit. Yet perform them I did, wearing masks of my own making, masks I learned to see in the mirror, masks I learned to forget were masks, until the cracks began to show…

I made a decision a few years ago to stop wearing masks. to just be myself and let the bones fall where they may. And for the most point I have managed to do that, oddly I feel happier trying to be no one but myself.

So this is me, a writer of novels and short stories who doesn’t perform…

Then for reasons to do with the strange people of Gloucestershire, I wrote a play and even more weirdly I performed in it. I’d deny everything, but it was filmed and someone put it on You tube. So enjoy the one and only time I will be caught performing, and my sole and last venture in to Play writing.

The manuscript is available in book form on Amazon though why you would want a copy is beyond me

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drag-King-Yellow-Play-One/dp/B0CCXP3D5M