Keep Moving, Keep Young: Gentle Yoga Exercises
SYNOPSIS
This illustrated guide shows the physical, emotional and mental benefits to be enjoyed from gentle yoga-based exercises and relaxation techniques, whatever your age or limitations.
All the basic exercises can be done seated on a chair or standing with a chair for support.
Written with warmth and humour, the approach is always positive, with the emphasis on what you can do.
This widely acclaimed book is proving to be invaluable to professional carers of older people; those who have an injury or disability; to yoga and fitness teachers and to individuals who want to help themselves stay well and active throughout their lives.
Miniskirts & Revelations
SYNOPSIS
This play is set in the 1960s, starting in ‘62. It goes through several eras and this is made evident by the music and fashions – from full skirts, drainpipe trousers and Elvis… Through the rise of the miniskirt and The Beatles… to flares and flowery shirts, The Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin.
The main characters are the Greenfield family – three generations of women: Grandma, Mother, and teenage daughter Penny. The theme is the different roles women play throughout their lives and their quests for fulfilment. This is a time for rethinking commitments and expectations as waves of disturbing post-war revolutions in politics…
Flowery Shirts & Strange Relations
SYNOPSIS
Although a much requested sequel to the NODA award winning Miniskirts & Revelations -“We want to know what happens next!” – this comedy/drama stands in its own right.
In Flowery Shirts & Strange Relations we see baby boomer Penny looking through her teenage diaries and back to the Autumn of 1968. We watch with her as the three generations at Greenfields’ Guesthouse – Grandma; widowed mother Chris; art-student Penny and biker brother Mick – approach the hippy era. We experience again the music…
Rita’s Revenge
SYNOPSIS
Following Margaret’s NODA award-winning plays Miniskirts & Revelations and Flowery Shirts & Strange Relations this hilarious comedy returns to the village of Littlemead in 1968 (Although partly a spin-off, Rita’s Revenge stands firmly in its own right too.)
In Littlemead village hall we follow nervous leading lady Chris and her fellow cast members through chaotic rehearsals …
Benches – A Ghost Story
SYNOPSIS
Benches features departed characters seated on their memorial benches, telling their stories and observing the amusing comings and goings of the busy seafront promenade.
What would these ‘Benchers’ have in common? – The 1920’s End of the Pier Showgirls; Mark, a recently deceased young Biker; Flo, a 1950’s Nan with a sensitive secret; Richard Townley, a despised Conscientious Objector who met his fate in World War II.
Richard’s story is the focal point of the play…
HOME GROWN GIGGLES
SYNOPSIS
Margaret has been entertaining friends and audiences with her humorous poems for many years and finds that they particularly appeal to older generations.
Recently she was asked to put a collection together for general amusement and also for use in Care Homes and Day Centres.
In HOME GROWN GIGGLES Margaret takes a look at the humorous side of everyday life with such titles as Bye Bye Bunion; Lottery Fever; My Cut-Grass Monster; September Blues; All I Want For Christmas Is A Loo, and OAPs v Virus.