Books by Simon (Playwright Vinnicombe

I feel like asking him to stay. To never leave this room. But I know that soon he will leave and...I'm going to ring him that night. I'm not going to write anything down. I might not even say anything. Just listen to him breathe.Lucy and Jim are alone. To the world they seem to be doing alright: they have jobs, friends, ambitions (well, sort of). But inside they are drowning. Until their chance meeting on a London night bus leads to a desperate search for redemption, each through the other. Inevitably, though, their hopes for salvation are dashed as deep-rooted insecurities rise to the surface.City Love is an unflinching look at the opposing human needs for companionship and self-destruction. Sharp observations transform the mundane into the epic in this grim, witty and agonizingly real play that will pierce the heart of anyone who has ever been in love.

Can a computer program, that basically shuffles numbers of zero and one, duplicate the ability of the neurons to create minds, with mental states, understanding, perceiving. Can we replicate consciousness? David sets his brother Lewis up on a blind date with April. April is like no woman Lewis has ever met before. She is beautiful, kind and intelligent. In fact, she seems perfect, perhaps even too perfect to be real.A moving and fascinating story about the modern intersection of grief, technology and late capitalism, R and D asks what''s more powerful: science or the soul? And when it comes to our obsession with ''research and development'', how far is too far in the search for ''progress''?R and D was first performed at the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs on 22 September 2016.

A programme text of this tender, moving play about the aftermath of a family tragedy, which has its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre, London, in October 2008.

Gripping drama of teenage struggle by talented new writer