Pochsy IV: Unplugged
The endearingly ditzy Pochsy is back in a new monologue!Sweet, vapid, and venomour, Pochsy is an endearingly charming embodiment of all that's gone bats in the world. She used to work at Mercury Packers. Where she packed mercury. Now her employer has moved offshore and Pochsy must grapple with God's broken promise of a five-star future. This is a night sea journey on an unnaturally sparkling river. Harrowing and high speed, Pochsy IV unboxes precarity, consumer obsessions, the future of humankind ... and whatever else might keep you up at night.Combining magical realism, satire, and horror, this monologue follows the acclaimed trilogy The Pochsy Plays, which have travelled internationally and been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, among other citations. Pochsy IV: because what the world needs right now is a little more Pochsy.
Pool of Darkness
"By writing about Raymond Chandler, Tom Sigafoos has been able to get uncannily close to him, to begin to understand this person more fully, and to introduce him to the world in a way that he hasn't been presented before..."It's a book where playfulness, setting, and intriguing conversation are doled out in even measure. The prose is lush, the humour tickles..."They say that word of mouth is the most effective way to get a book read and loved: readers urging other readers to invest time in a book, because they feel that that book is worth it..."I hope that this novel gets all the notice it deserves. It's an informed, witty, elegantly written book, with a lively energy in its pages. It's a celebration of all that's good and exciting about bio-fiction, about the act of illuminating real people and lived lives; it's an honouring of Chandler as person, as husband, and as writer..."Comhghairdeas 籀 chro穩, congratulations, Tom - may your ink never run dry."- Nuala O'Connor, author of Nora and Seaborne, launching Pool of Darkness at the 2024 Allingham Festival
Hot Chicks
This is the world now... it's ugly and painful and savage. But you'll grow stronger. I'll help you grow stronger.Teenagers Ruby and Kyla spend their evenings hanging at Cheney's chicken shop dreaming of moving to Vegas and going viral. A chance encounter with older, cooler Sadie, means their dreams of pool parties and showering in dollars could become a reality... but at what price?Rebecca Jade Hammond's ferocious, witty and unsettling play Hot Chicks is contemporary Welsh theatre at its sharpest.This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere production in March 2025, co-produced by Grand Ambition and Sherman Theatre.
