Marc Harris

Share a journey with nine passengers to one destination - where unforgettable stories are revealed. Your next coach trip may never be the same.
The play is staged so that the actors change costume (and character) in view of the audience, so that this forms an integral part of the play.

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A drama about family relationships, ageing and hope.
Take one actor who wants to act, a brother, daughter and neighbour who also want him to, another daughter who doesn’t, and an actor - who can’t. Tim has set his heart on an acting role before he retires, and is trying to stay positive but with recent memory issues, opposition from his daughter, and self doubt returning; can he begin to find his inner confidence, and believe that there may be a chance to act for one final time?

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N.B. Due to ongoing submissions and a possible self production of this play, it will not be uploaded until summer 2025 at the earliest.

After an elderly widow’s stepson informs her that he wants to sell the house she lives in, she decides to find someone who can move into her home, in the hope that she can continue living there. But what about the other visitors?

A moving and poignant one act play with supernatural elements, which touches on 'the last big mystery', being the possibility of life after death. Although the play's main themes are homelessness, grief, old age, living on your own and approaching the end of your life, it is also one of change and hope, with lighter moments of humour running throughout.

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Harvey’s immediate family all want to talk with him, having unwittingly divulged secrets to one another while sitting in a hospital waiting room. The trouble is, Harvey’s long held secret has also been revealed but lying in a hospital bed, he can’t speak for himself. How does a family come to terms with these suddenly unravelled truths? And why can’t everything be as easy as pie?

An entertaining drama with plenty of family dynamics and twists, plus a pleasing final plot twist. The title gives a playful nod to Mike Leigh's film Secrets & Lies. 'Secrets & Pies is the sensational new kitchen sink drama of our time (or at least for the first minute!)' Marc Harris

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Cliff, a cantankerous loner with sceptical thoughts on climate change and green issues meets his match in Fleur, a council surveyor with strong environmental views who attends an appointment to survey his rear garden, which backs onto crumbling cliffs and a 130 feet drop. Can Fleur persuade Cliff to change his ways and to accept that his days spent living in this idyllic location are numbered?

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When desperate Barry, who was close to jumping off from the side of the River Thames embankment is approached by Katie, his life takes an unexpected turn, while Thomas suffers the consequences of mistaken identity.

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Liz is determined to wait until she has her theatre programme signed. Robert is impatient, and persists in undermining her and Russ, an actor, because of her infatuation with him. Can they overcome their differences and bickering, and is Liz able to hold on to her secret?

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Mary lives in a small one bedroom flat in a council block and is the last person living there, due to the council regenerating the estate. As she is not happy with the alternative accommodation being offered to her, she decides to make a stand but will her stubbornness get the better of her, or could it pay off?

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Simon decides to carry out his first burglary, unknowingly breaking into his former school teacher's cottage. Clive tries to convince Simon that everyone deserves a second chance but is everything as it seems?

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The dramatic rescue of a girl on the Cornish coastline is linked by the account of an elderly man, who has waited to tell a similar story most of his life. Can they both convince those who doubt them, that the incredible events, connected by many decades apart, did really happen?

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Lynne, fed up with having been caught in the rain, waiting for hours in hospital and forever being single, sits next to a positive man whose advice is to seize the day. But how does an egg and cress sandwich enable this?

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As two passengers who meet in a lift cannot remember initially how they arrived there and are not certain where they are going, it is left to the lift operator to accompany them on their way but not before requesting help from a family member of one of the passengers.

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Sue, an older divorced woman and Natalie, a younger soon to be married woman meet on a bench in a park and discuss their experiences and views on relationships and marriage. After hearing Sue's advice regarding her concerns, can Natalie still expect a 'happy ever after'?

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Derek, a lonely widower who has stepped out from his flat only nine times since his wife died six months earlier, decides to search for his recently stolen car by placing missing posters around his neighbourhood and in doing so, re-connects with his surroundings and realises that life must go on.

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Matt is forced to sit at the children's table while attending his friend's wedding. He soon spots somebody from his past but can the ‘old beyond his years’ child he is sitting next to, turn the situation around in Matt’s favour?

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Set mostly the day before Christmas, a homeless man tries to keep positive and has hopes for a better future. This monologue was originally set in the last days of 1920, which should be amended in the script so that it is clearly set a century ago.
This was originally written for a radio play competition and had to include a Christmas setting plus a line from a Christmas song or carol incorporated into the script which is ‘What can I give him, poor as I am?’ from the beautiful In The Bleak Midwinter, one of my favourite carols and suggested music at the start of the monologue.

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Alan (or alternatively Sarah) finally gets around to searching for that long lost box of family photos.

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A woman remembers her grandmother, who passed down her knowledge of planting by the phases of the moon.

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