Eye Captain
By: Matthew Comras
Sitcom Mission 2011 finalist
Sitcom Mission 2011 finalist
Deep in the heart of rural Kent, there's a storm a-brewing. A snow storm to be specific. Having already wreaked havoc all over London, the snow is starting to hit Kent's third largest international airport and it ain't looking pretty... well it is looking pretty, snow is nice isn't it, white, snowflakes... but it ain't pretty.
Surveying the action from the airport's air traffic control tower our hero, John, is determined to keep the airport open for business as well as proving to his colleagues that he can live up to the countless valiant adventures he claims make up his patchwork past.
As the threat of increased air traffic looms over the control tower, the colleagues in question, Virgil and Harriet, are slightly less preoccupied with the impending closure of the airport, concerning themselves instead with a matter of life and death, which of course Virgil wants kept a secret. One of those if you ignore it it might go away scenarios. It never does go away does it?
As the snow deepens, John has no choice but to gather all the help he can muster and face the blizzard head on, leaving Virgil and Harriet to face each other for the first time.
Credits
| Cast | Character | |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Bates | ... | John |
| Adam Reeves | ... | Virgil |
| Natalie Wilcox | ... | Harriet |
Matthew Comras
By day Matthew works in television and by every other day he is a comedy writer. Born on the outskirts of North London, Matthew fled to a university in Sheffield before completing his long awaited return to his homeland. Here he began his big writing experiment and after compiling an admirably hefty volume of 'trial runs', at the age of 24, this is the first real project he has been able to get his teeth into.
His English Lit background, coupled with a love for storytelling, hitched to a wagon of the surreal, pregnant with an unerring sense of silliness, knitted together with impeccable; grammar gives his writing a unique blend of the silly and the sublime.
The recipient of over three gold stars at school, his awards to date include 50 metres backstroke and Favourite Son 2003. Influences? Seinfeld, Boosh, Partridge, Blackadder, Izzard and many more.
Matthew hopes everyone enjoys the performance, thanks all those who contributed and trusts one or two of his friends to laugh as instructed.
Emma Blundell (Director)
Emma is a director / writer who has worked across London and the North East; directing credits for new writing include Insane Jane (Lift 5065 at Soho Theatre and Pleasance, Edinburgh), Perfection (Old Red Lion Theatre), The Wooden Pear (The Union Theatre), Reel to Real (Theatre 503) and Hell Is Other People (Hen and Chickens). Other credits include Death and the Maiden, Titus Andronicus, Two, The Bald Prima Donna and the British premiere of the Broadway show Fat Men in Skirts.
As a writer her work includes Oedipus What? and A Bit of How's Your Father parts 1 & 2 (for Lift 5065 at Soho Theatre), The Tip of the Iceberg (North East Tour), and On The Hop (LOST Festival winner) as well as adaptations of Wuthering Heights and Lord of the Flies.
She is joint artistic director of Out of Order Theatre; directing credits include Hot Man (King's Head), Yesterday's News (with Bronwen Carr and Kamaal Hussain; Hen and Chickens) and a reading of In the Doll House (Old Red Lion). Her writing for the company includes Past Tense (Old Red Lion), Bellows (King's Head) and Tail of Two Dogs (Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea).
Note
2011 Finalist.