[1][2] His first play, the one-act Taking The Floor (1982), formed part of an entertainment at the Bloomsbury Theatre for the launch of a new album by The Passions.
In 1983, his play Red Saturday, for Paines Plough,[3] directed by Tim Fywell, toured the UK and was staged at the New End Theatre in Hampstead.
It won the 1983 Samuel Beckett Award, and in 1984 transferred to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, then under the auspices of Danny Boyle.
In 1986, his original screenplay Song of Experience was directed by Stephen Frears for the BBC Screen Two series.
Projects of note which remain unproduced include The Unyellow Years (1987) for St Pancras Films, tracing Vincent van Gogh’s early career in the Netherlands; The Glasnost Special (1990), a comedy for Skreba Films; White Lies (1990), a four-part thriller for Sleeping Partners (Paul Greengrass & Andy Harries) and Channel 4, set in Antarctica; Going Critical (1993), for the Royal Shakespeare Company, then under the tenure of Adrian Noble; Hell To Pay (1995) a rehearsed reading at the Vaudeville Theatre in association with Michael Codron; Spring And Port Wine (2001), a pilot for a ten-part series based on the Bill Naughton play for Carlton TV (Charles Elton and Jonathan Powell); and The Master Cut (2005), a play about the music business.