Writing
Rachel has been writing plays since her teens, and adores writing pantomimes above all else. She has learnt a lot from her MA in Scriptwriting and can't wait to produce more of her own work.
Taking the Mik
Minotaur Theatre Shorts - October 2025
Unfortunately due to actor illness the performance was cancelled day of.
Taking the Mik was a farce about a family dinner for Michelle's (known as Mik) birthday. Invited are: her eldest daughter Lauren and her husband Mickey (Mik), her son Michael (Mik), and his wife Mimi, her daughter Ashley and her new partner Mitch (Mik). Each of the couples has a secret that will ruin her day. Can they get through this meal without anything going wrong? Since it's a farce obviously not, and naturally things get confusing when half the attendees have the same name. A feel good comedy filled with slapstick, wordplay, and far too many Miks.
Bay At The Moon
Trial One Theatre's Freakfest - October 2024
Bay At The Moon was a more experimental piece, I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone. Exploring ideas of personhood, trauma, blame, and recovery through a werewolf arguing with the moon. I've directed the majority of my own work, so I was excited at handing my script off to someone else and was intrigued by how the director would handle staging the more impossible stage directions contained within. It was also the first time I had my work reviewed.
"The piece's opening is almost more dance than drama, and Bethany Tara-Louise's direction ensures a strong phsyicality throughout."
Read the full review and those of the other plays as well here: FreakFest – Cultivated
Doctor Who: The Panto of the Doctor
UEA Pantomine Society's 24 Hour Panto - May 2023
This adult pantomime celebrated and poked fun at the 60 years of this well loved show. Rehearsed and performed in just 24 hours, the show was a laugh a minute with endless references and a several silly musical numbers.
Watch it here: The Panto of the Doctor - Full Show
Scrambled Eggs
Minotaur Theatre Shorts Festival - October 2022
Scrambled Eggs was a short play exploring the relationship between two women who'd never met and their son who brought them together. He was grown from Charlotte's eggs and Ashley gave birth to him. It explored the issues women face with infertility as well as the struggles it can create in the identity and sense of self of those who are donor conceived. It was inspired by my own experiences donating my eggs and the letters I had left for the children who could be.
Cinderella
House Plays 2019
Cinderella was my first performance of my own writing. A 30 minute pantomime meant the pacing of the jokes was break neck. I was inspired to write this after doing work experience on a local pantomime the previous Easter.
