A serious political drama about spinning too many plates when you probably shouldn’t be spinning plates in the first place because they’re not your plates and I’m not inviting you to dinner again oh God look what you’ve done to my carpet

Prague, 1848. Jaroslav seems to have accidentally started a revolution. His girlfriend is not thrilled about this. They argue about it for 90 minutes through the medium of song in a way that’s not anything like as bad as that sounds. (There’s also a subplot involving the Emperor, an emergency wedding, a dead soldier, a psychotic tailor’s assistant who’s really good at his job, a gay lawyer who isn’t, but not because he’s gay, that would be offensive, some comedy anti-Semitism because that’s what people did in those days, and a suicidal aristocrat who we all like to laugh at because honestly what’s funnier than other people’s pain.)

The play was shortlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award 2024/25, and I’m currently staging readings in preparation for a production. It was previously workshopped by Pia Furtado, Tom Attenborough, and Adam Lenson, with funding from the Arts Council and Glass Half Full Productions. I was also mentored by Stephen Sondheim.