Brian Coyle - Playwright & Scriptwriter
Plays in development
OFFSHORE
A troubled young man standing on a cold deserted beach stares out at the uninviting sea and spots something magical out there. What is it he sees?
In this play three lost souls meet on the same beach every day. They each have their own issues and they each can't seem to move forward with their lives. Can they help each other to find their way?
OFFSHORE is about loss, longing, mental health and about the mystery of our natural world. It's a story of three ordinary people and their connection to each other and to the infinite.
SHADOW LIVES
How would your life look if you could change the choices you made?
SHADOW LIVES is about the choices we make and how they can affect our whole life, and how sometimes they aren’t really choices at all. And it’s also about redemption and forgiveness and how whatever bad choices we make, it’s still sometimes possible to be forgiven.
It’s a two-hander that presents several concurrent stories of how Helen and Sal’s life would have turned out depending on the choices they made earlier in their life. Could it be that regardless of the decisions they made they are still able to forgive each other?
THE SHIRES
A young woman from a small left-behind rural town, Perry (19), is lost and drifting. It's a year since her dad's death and she spends most of her time hanging around The Shires, the local shopping centre, drinking cider and smoking dope with her rightwing mate Spencer. When she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Graham the Carry-Bag-Man, a local character who usually speaks to no one, Spencer isn't happy – he has it in for Graham, and for some other people in the town. But could the weird old man be Perry’s saviour?
The play is about losing your way and finding it again; it's about small-town life and the left behind; and it's about grief and loss (in all its forms).
LIFEFORCE
Alex has a lot to live for: his friendship with his flat mate Serena, his lovely mum, his passion for Bake Off, his budding stand-up career and his fledgling romance with the beautiful Barista from Pret. So why has he taken an overdose and is in hospital, with a medical team fighting for his life? Will he survive and does he even want to?
In this single-hander he tells us his story, as we find out how he got to this frightening point in his life.