Mark Wheeller – författare

New edition with bonus features

This hard-hitting verbatim play is based on a tragic drink drive accident that results in the death of the vehicle’s front seat passenger, Jo. Her sister Judy, driving the car, escapes physically unhurt – but can never escape the consequences of her own reckless behaviour.

Since its initial performances in 1987, Too Much Punch for Judy has toured non-stop all over the world to schools, colleges, prisons, young offenders’ institutes and army bases. Astonishingly, it is now one of the most performed contemporary plays, with 6058 licensed performances between 1987 and 2020.

The play has been cited in Chief Examiner’s reports for GCSE Drama to be an example of a play that gives students ample opportunity to achieve across the criteria.

Suitable for: Key Stage 3/4, BTEC, A-Level to adultDuration: 60 minutes approximatelyCast: 6 male, 6 female, 1 male or female, or 2 male, 2 female with doubling.

"The audience I sat in was patently out for some whooping Friday night fun watching their mates on stage. At the end there was a horrid silence."
Nick Baker, Times Educational Supplement

A varied collection of 30 contemporary monologues from Mark Wheeller''s plays.

The book includes monologues from

Too Much Punch For Judy, 

Hard To Swallow, 

Missing Dan Nolan, 

I Love You, Mum I Promise I Won''t Die, 

Game Over 

... and many more of Mark''s plays... and musicals.

All these monologues are suitable for young people to use in the classroom, online to camera or Zoom, or for audition use. Despite many being ostensibly for adult performers they are all tried and tested for young people to use with amazing results.

Without exception, they were all written for young people to perform. Being verbatim material, they are all suitable for blind casting.

Mark''s monologues have been used in collections before but there has never been a collection of exclusively Mark Wheeller monologues - until now.

A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller''s plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social Distance friendly performances.

It includes duologues from:

Too Much Punch For Judy

Hard To Swallow

Missing Dan Nolan

I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won''t Die

Game Over

... and many more of Mark''s plays... and musicals. It also includes a previously unpublished self-contained short Sibling Saviours.

All these duologues are suitable for young people to use for classroom or audition use. Despite many being ostensibly for adult performers they are all tried and tested for young people to use with amazing results.

There has never before been a collection of exclusively Mark Wheeller duologues.

Widely studied, frequently staged—verbatim theatre is everywhere. In this new book, Mark Wheeller, the author of verbatim hits Too Much Punch for Judy, Hard to Swallow, Missing Dan Nolan and Game Over, and the most performed living playwrights in the UK, takes a personal journey through the form, and demystifies the making process. 

For Mark, his verbatim theatre journey all began with a man called Graham Salmon – the world''s fastest blind runner. 

Verbatim: The Fun of Making Theatre Seriously is a perfect handbook for teachers, educators, students and anyone interested in the creative process.