" Pearl - The Story of Janis Joplin " Written by Brian Langtry and Len Holden.

This two-act musical play, set in the heart of the `hippy` and `post hippy` period 1968-70, focuses upon the life and character of the most original female interpreter of the blues since the era of Bessie Smith.

`Pearl` examines the complex and charismatic singer`s needs,relationships,desires and fears as her story leads us through this culturally revolutionary era from her appearance at The Monterey pop Festival to the recording of her final,seminal album `Pearl`. Janis Joplin uniquely characterised the freewheeling spirit of the age and an existence only ever located in the `now`. Throughout her short life she was plagued by insecurity, drug and alcohol dependence and an inability to reconcile the reality and fantasy of rock stardom. Yet she was also capable of moments of considered reflection, of intimacy and of startling poignancy. The work encompasses not only the unforgettable music of Janis Joplin but also that of a ranfe of 60`s superstars including Joan Baez, Simon and Garfunkel, Kris Kristofferson, Canned Heat and the Mamas and the Papas. Impotantly though this is not a tribute show but a bona fide dramatic life story.

Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes. Use of filmic sequences. Cast of 9 actor/musicians.

A new movie of Janis Joplin`s life opens in 2007!

" Tallulah " Written and devised by Brian Langtry

A two-act play focusing upon the character and life of the infamous Southern belle who charmed London and Broadway theatre goers from the 1920`s through to her virtual retirement in the 1950`s.

Outrageously craving of attention and defiant of all accepted conventions the openly bisexual Tallulah found herself drawn to the intellectual bohemians of her era bcoming the devotee of both " The Algonquin Set " in New York and the " Bright Young Things " in London. She was revered by her coterie of London " Gallery Girls " who took great delight in defying every known theatre convention, casting aside inhibitions and stamping, cooing and wailing at their heroine`s every movement. A uniquely stylised actress Tallulah would these days inevitably have become tagged with the mantle of `celebrity`.

The play provides a frank and sexually revealing insight into the character, relationships, psyche and idiosyncrasies of this complex woman and the world and period which she inhabited. Visually engaging costuming, sets and styling covering the 1928 to 1954 period.

Running Time: 1 hour 45 minutes. Minimum cast of 2men and 2 women- 9 characters doubling or expanded cast for individual roles. Use of filmic sequences and a simulated staging of "The Big Show" Tallulah`s hit U.S. radio show of the 1950s which involves musical content.

" Hello I`m Johnny Cash" Written by Brian Langtry

A play which first toured in a studio format 2 years before the death of Cash is now expanded and updated into a full blown biog. musical.

From his Air Force discharge, whereby he ordained that he would return home to become a star, through to the 1990`s Rick rubin American recordings which revised the fortunes of the `man in black` this is a story like no other. A love story, a story of tragic proportions, a story of unbelievable excesses, a story of religious beliefs and contradictions, a story of morality, courage, hope and despair and above all else a story that faithfully depicts the life and experiences of the last great American trobadour.

This dramatic musical play enshrines not only the music of Cash but also that of the era - Carl Perkins, Patsy Cline, The Carter Family- and features some 25 songs with opportunities to incorporate filmic sequences. The play covers a period of some 35 years.

Running Time- 2 hours. Opportunity for film sequencing. Cast of 9 actor musicians with doubling.

The perfect time to follow up the movie!!

" A Girl called Dusty " Written by Brian Langtry

The story of the `white queen of soul` from her early successes with brother Dion in The Springfields through to her later revival via 1990`s electro pop.

In between the highs of becoming the biggest selling female solo artist of the time, the critical acclaim of the album ` Dusty in Memphis ` and the re-emergent collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys, Dusty plummeted troughs of deep despair, desperate times of promiscuity, drink and drug dependency, financial chaos, unresolved psychological traumas, insecurities of sexual identity and a seemingly unending inability to find the kind of loving relationship which she so desperately desired. She was strong yet vulnerable, loving yet demanding, confident yet insecure. She was the undisputed incarnation of sixties pop.

A musical biog which enshrines, in addition to 18 iconic Dusty songs, a variety of music and settings from the era in which the world changed for ever - The Swinging Blue Jeans, Ready Steady Go, Marthe Reeves and the Vandellas. Buddy Rich, The Pet Shop Boys. Changing times make for lavish costuming, dance and set design.

Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes. Cast 9 actor musicians. Filmic sequences.

A movie is due out in 2007!

" The Five Year Itch " Written by Steve Black

The Five Year Itch focuses upon two brief but seminal moments in Marilyn Monroe`s life which are seperated by an intervening five year period. The play juxtaposes historic fact with real time events, actions and consequences; Steve Black`s intimate script draws us unerringly into the emotional milieu of the present as the story of a chance motel room meeting develops over the intervening five year period into a relationship of lasting significance.

Initially we find Marilyn exhausted and reflective fleeing from chaotic stardom to a quiet motel room where she seeks to make sense of the crazed carousel upon which she finds herself. The opportunity of absolution is provided by a chance meeting with a stranger which, in the ensuing discourse, allows Marilyn to consider and confront all those near and past traumas which linger corrosively in the roots of her troubled world.

Half a decade later she is summoned to the same motel to meet with the man who, in those intervening years, has become one of her lovers. Momentous political change is about to be unleashed and events that follow will forever lie at the heart of the myths, realities and assertions of one of the most enigmatic and iconic stories that the movie industry has ever experienced.

An engaging and fascinating insight into the life of the icon that was Marilyn Monroe.

" this is a pleasure" Time Out: " Absorbing" Hollywood Reporter

"uncanny impersonation of the film star" The Stage: " she`s rather sweet and very fetching in her silkenmauve pyjamas, and she has a tale to tell" The Times

"the best reason for seeing this play is Sally Day`s performance" The GuardianReporter