Kevin writes plays for a wide variety of theatre. For example, Sept 2017 saw the premieres of four new theatre plays in one month by Kevin, as featured in the interview with Sara Cox for BBC Radio 4’s “Loose Ends”.
“The Shed Crew” (Red Ladder at Albion Electric Warehouse Leeds) is an adaptation in verse of Bernard Hare’s best-selling true story book about feral kids in inner city Leeds.
“The Ruck” (Lawrence Batley Theatre & Yorkshire theatres tour) is a fun, physical play with songs and raps inspired by Batley Bulldogs’ Girls Rugby League Team.
“Bess the Commoner Queen” (Guildhall Derby and national tour) is a one woman show mixing theatre and film about Bess of Hardwick, a Derbyshire lass who rose to become the richest woman in Elizabethan England.
“Down the Line” (Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway Centre) is a site-specific community play featuring the stage debut of the world’s most famous steam loco, “The Flying Scotsman”.
Kevin wrote the first theatre plays about the rave scene (“Excess XS” at Contact Theatre 1992), about virtual reality (“Strange Attractors” – Contact and Granada TV 1994) and about privatised prisons (“Private Times” – The Library Theatre Manchester 1990).
Other notable plays include “Obama the Mamba” (Curve Leicester & The Lowry – about Barack Obama’s Kenyan brother, George Obama); “Slave” (Feelgood Theatre at The Lowry & national tours); “Fireflies: a love story waiting to happen” (The Lowry & Lion Eyes TV); “Lord Dynamite” (Welfare State International at London International Festival of Theatre); “52 Degrees South” (Commonwealth Games Manchester commission at Imperial War Museum North); “White Trash” (writer/deviser Quarantine at Contact Theatre).
More recent plays include “The Palace of Varieties – life and times of Dennis Skinner” (Derby Theatre 2022); “Captain Blood’s Singular Circus” (writer/producer site-specific community play in Belper 2023); second national tour of “Slave” 2024.
