Books by Colin Crowther

Tom, suffering from heart disease and aware that he does not have long to live, commissions Jan, an artist, to paint a picture that Tom can leave to his wife Brenda. From this simple premise Colin Crowther has created a many-layered, thoughtful play exploring illness, grief and the difficulties of caring for the dying, threaded with a lucid discussion of the redemptive power of art.|1 woman, 1 man, 2 women or men

Love story or ghost story? This play shows a man and a woman meeting, apparently on a park bench, apparently to say goodbye. But who is leaving and why?

Based on a true event, Silent Night is the heart-warming story of an ordinary family in extraordinary times: the Blitz. A direct hit on their Anderson shelter leaves Wilf, Rose, Lily, Jack and their tortoise Harold awaiting the call to St Peter and the Pearly Gates.

This dramatization of the biblical story of Noah offers children a chance to practise their early acting skills. They should learn how to focus their acting by being able to relax, stand still, mime movements while standing on the spot, and work together as a chorus.

"If only I had my life over again." We all say it, but what would we really do differently if we had the chance? The hero of this play gets that chance. At the point of his death, he revisits himself as a teenager, a young man, as a disgruntled middle-aged husband and as a newborn child.

A man facing a terminal illness comes to a deserted beach, despondent and raging. He meets a woman who tells him that in the 5th century, Dwynwen, maid-in-waiting to the queen, deserted her faithless lover to live there. Dwynwen appears to the man and opens his eyes to the love and care of others.

A couple are nervously dressing for a party in the hotel downstairs. Each glumly despairs of being able to live up to their partner's expectations. The trouble is that the person they see in the mirror is very different from the person their partner sees. She sees herself as a dowdy, boring frump, but he sees her as charming and kind.