Winner of the Writers' and Artists' 2007 New Novel Competition, the 2012 Local Legend Spiritual Writing Competition, the Georgina Hawtrey-Woore YA Novel Award and the Segora International One-Act Play Prize, 2018, plus seven times winner of the Wilfred Hopkins Best Short Story Challenge. Also a retired hospital doctor and a keen photographer.
Unveiled Secrets
Four plays, four women, four secrets
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Three plays by Oliver Eade and one by Anita John
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Available from Amazon
Other Plays
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Split Apart (Full Length) Dysfunctional family torn apart and brought together by a disaster. Inspired by the playwright being caught up in an earthquake in China in 2008.
The Gap (one act version of 'Split Apart'). Short-listed for Rowan Tree Competition, 2007. Staged by Odd Productions Thteatre in 2012.
The Kotuku Bird (Full Length) Inspired by a true story.
Pool Britannia (Full Length) Inspired by staying (briefly) in a condominium of ex-pats in Turkey when the ambient temperature was 47 celcius.
Interview
White Mischief (with music and dance) Inspired by the shameful brainlessness of British xenophobia and racism.
The Other Nathan Inspired by a friend's comment concerning his aunt. Long-listed for the 2015 British Theatre Challenge. Staged by Odd Productions Theatre in 2019.
The Other Cat Inspired by SchrÖdinger's cat and quantum superposition. Winner of Segora 2018 International One Act Play Competition. Staged by Odd Productions Theatre in 2019.
Give the Dog a Bone Inspired by a true story. Long-listed for the 2015 British Theatre Challenge. Staged by Odd Productions Theatre 2019.
Eighty Percent
Ghost of Flodden Inspired by one of the bloodiest battles in UK history.
The Hut A dark comedy about prejudice inspired by prejudice.
An Angel of Sorts
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The Other Cat & Other Plays
In 'The Other Cat', winner of the 2018 Segora International One-act Play Competition, staged in 2019, and inspired by Erwin Schrödinger's famous feline, Poppy encounters a body in the street. Is it her body? A detective inspector, a philosophy professor and a Catholic priest, in their own ways, help her to face reality... but is any of it real? This, and nine other plays, two long listed for the British Theatre Challenge, some farcical, others dark, take the reader on a metaphysical journey of human experience.