Sticks & Stones is a short, experimental comedy play I wrote that was performed as a rehearsed reading at the Clerkenwell Theatre in May 2008. 

Set on London's Underground, the play charts the minor melodramas in the lives of four people. Pilates, ruined relationships, family tension, crisps and Argonauts all rub shoulders in the group's labyrinthine and tangential conversations.

I'd been noodling around and writing little comedy dialogues featuring a character called Toby Bon Jovi for months. He was an office-working everyman, generally dissatisfied with his lot. His biggest qualm was that pop-rock singer Jon Bon Jovi acts as if he were the only Bon Jovi in the world.

I noticed that the Ten in a Bed theatre company in London was looking for new writers to send in short plays, and I decided to expand on Toby and submit the script. I was thrilled when it was chosen to be performed in full, and even more so when I heard the packed theatre laughing along to the performance.

The play was superbly directed by Ben Skinner and starred Matthew Flacks, Jamie Griffiths, Martin Murphy and Lucy Grattan.

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