BALLROOM GLITZ (2011)

by Dave Windass

Rehearsed reading at Hull Truck Studio launching the venue's Play, a Pie and a Pint nights on January 19, 2011. Performed by Robert Aramayo, Jonny Collis, Laura Elsworthy, William Ilkley, Zach Lee, Sarah Naughton and Tilly Oakshott. Directed by Andrew Pearson.

Strictly come dancing with this new comedy specially commissioned by Hull Truck from the writer of Sully and Kicked into Touch.

THINSPIRATION (2010)

by Dave Windass

Directed by Lee Green

Performed by Rachel Helen Shaw

Thinspiration received its premier at Humber Mouth 2010 in Hull Truck Theatre's Studio on July 10, 2010. Single Span Theatre Company will present the play again at Hull Truck on September 24 and 25, 2010.

Adele is in turmoil. Adele has changed. Adele has body image issues. Adele is hanging in there. She doesn't want to do it for him, or them, or anyone else. She wants to do it for her. And, having discovered support from the online pro-ana brigade, she knows she can get there. Be perfect, be right, be good again. Every morning, when she recites Ana's Creed, she knows that she will get there.

“I am not ill. I just have to think about food. All day. And avoid eating it. Food is the enemy. Ana is on my side. I will do anything I can to live my life the way I want. In the body that I want. Not eating...not eating is power.”

Download the playtext of Thinspiration, free of charge, here.

GAGGING FOR IT (2009)

by Morgan Sproxton and Dave Windass

Directed by Lee Green

Performed by Lee Green, Rachel Helen Shaw, Jess Morley, Tim Bettridge

Premiered at the Humber Mouth festival in Hull Truck Theatre's Studio on June 30, 2009.

A black comedy set against the backdrop of the stand-up comedy circuit. Gagging For It explores what happens when the contemporary obsession with fame and celebrity is taken to its extreme.

ON A SHOUT (2008)

by Dave Windass

Directed by Gareth Tudor Price

Performed by David Barrass, Laura Doddington, Edward Peel, Richard Standing, Matthew Stathers

A Hull Truck Production

Premiered at Hull Truck Theatre on January 25, 2008.

This is The Point: a place at the end of the world where crashing waves, Force-10 gales and sinking boats are enough to keep a lifeboat crew occupied 24/7.

History and heroes from the past keep turning up to remind them that this is a job for supermen and that danger hangs over every mission.

Join our dazzling RNLI crews at The Point as their pagers bleep, they pull on their waterproofs and head out into the unknown. This present crop of life-savers have a lot to live up to and, for George, this is one last chance to play the hero. For the crew, well, who knows what fate might have in store…

RANK: NOT BLOODY LIKELY (2007)

by Dave Windass

Coming soon

A biographical comedy drama about the life and times of flour miller-turned-movie mogul J Arthur Rank. Developed with the financial assistance of an Arts Council England Grants For Arts award.

SULLY (2006)

by Dave Windass

Directed by Martin Barrass & Gareth Tudor Price

Performed by Natalie Blades, Lee Green and Fidel Nanton

A Hull Truck Production

Premiered at Hull Truck Theatre on May 18, 2006

Revived at Hull Truck Theatre on May 10, 2007 with the following cast:

Amy Thompson, Lee Green and Fidel Nanton

Clive Sullivan, MBE: a rugby league legend, the last British captain to lift the Rugby League World Cup. More than 20 years in the game, over 100 tries scored for Hull's two rugby teams and Challenge Cup winner's medals for both clubs.

The mud on his boots is barely dry when Clive is diagnosed with cancer and, for once, the natural born victor is unable to win the biggest battle of his life.

Now, over 20 years after Sully's death, amongst the gridlock on the Clive Sullivan Way, a taxi driver is taking his passenger through a thick fog from the west to the east of the city. For Chelle and Max this is going to be the journey of a lifetime...

KICKED INTO TOUCH (2005)

by Dave Windass

Directed by Gareth Tudor Price & Nick Lane

Performed by Martin Barrass, Belinda Lazenby and Lee Green

A Hull Truck Blockheads! Production

Premiered at Hull Truck Theatre on June 28, 2005

May 3, 1980. The clash of the giants, the battle royale, the game to end all games. Hull v Rovers.

The Airlie Birds mix it with the Robins and it's guaranteed to be on Hull of a match, a Humberdinger that will sort out, once and for all, which side of the city rules.

However, Robyn and Neil won't be there. Instead, as everyone else dons their colours and clambers aboard the coach, the twosome are fighting to keep their relationship together. For 80 minutes, come 3pm, they will, at last, keep their eye on the game. What will happen when the final whistle blows? And who will come out on top?

OFF THEIR TROLLEYS (2004)

by Dave Windass

Directed by Martin Barrass

Premiered at Hull Truck Theatre on June 22, 2004

Gage runs the biggest superstore on the block. But his life starts to fall apart when a shadow from the past – Marco – opens a bigger and better superstore across the street.

Welcome, my friends, to the nasty world of supermarket wars, a place where both Gage and Marco are willing to make Faustian pacts to survive.

THE WORST SEAT IN THE HOUSE (2004)

Premiered at Hull Truck Theatre on June 25, 2004

Written by Dave Windass

Directed by Jack Brady

Performed by Dave Windass & Jack Brady

An insight into the life of a theatre critic by a man who stumbled into the job by accident. As well as serving as a handy guide to what to look out for when attending a performance, this comedic rant - part lecture, part stand-up, part public inquiry - will demonstrate why getting into the theatre for free several times a week is a terrible job.

STORE ME WHETHER (2003)

by Dave Windass

Premiered as a script-in-hand performance during the Hull Truck New Writing Festival, October 2003

Slimy, grimy, seedy, low-life scum: Store Me Whether exposes the very underbelly of humanity that is….supermarket managers.