Absurdities/Bed
By JM Golder/Paul Richards

Absurdites is a collection of sketches/short plays based on a theme of oppositeness - what happens when the victim of a stick-up turns out to be the bad guy; how does a guy who hates Hollywood become a film critic; what have two drunken yobs to say about world peace. Bed, which Michelle Golder script-edited, is about the travails of a likely lad who wakes up next to a woman he's never met, in a city he's never visited. Debuted at the Corpus Playrooms, Cambridge before a successful run at the Brighton Fringe Festival. Directed by Holly Race.

Sexual Ironing

A clutch of seven short pieces about man/woman relationships. There's one about two girls in Playboy bunny outfits, who discover that sometimes the clothes don't make the girl; several about couples - a couple arguing about dirty language, a chap giving his girlfriend a massage, a very bad blind date, a girl who wants to know her boyfriend's favourite sexual fantasy (always a big mistake). There's a very dark playlet about a prostitute who finds a man with a knife. And there's one about what a girl does when she thought she was doing the dumping, but finds out she was actually dumped. Some of the pieces are raunchy, some are dark, some are bittersweet - but all are witty and engaging. Debuted in a production directed by Holly Race at the ADC Theatre Cambridge to a sell-out audience. Continued to a short week's run at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden as part of the Camden Fringe Festival.

Beat Club

Beat Club is a cabaret style sketch show. It debuted at Bar B, in Cambridge , with 10 sketches written by JM Golder, Graeme Knowles, Julia Bolden and Karen McWhinnie. The show, which also featured the music of Alighting and Martin Kaszak, quickly sold out and was a huge success. Calls for Beat Club II will be answered soon!

Hills Road

Hills Road is a 10 part radio comedy soap opera commissioned by and written for 209Radio by Michelle Golder, Alan Morgan, John Parry and Claire Powell. Michelle also acted as script editor and director. Its tagline was "Putting the Ambridge back in Cambridge " and it proved a popular listen for the station. Some of the characters were briefly revived in September 2008 when a short play based on the series was written by Michelle and performed at a fundraiser for the station.