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The Bridge

Alex Jones

Genre: Thriller

Cast size: 3

Duration: 90 minutes

Alex Jones | Thriller | Mid-Length | 2m, 1f

Short synopsis

A supernatural time-twisting ghost story.

Teenage couple Tom and Lucy are on the run.  Offered shelter by a mysterious stranger, they hide away in a shadowy ancient house.  As the candlelight licks the panelled walls, Lucy becomes convinced she'd been in this room before - hundreds of years before...  A spine tingling supernatural thriller that hurtles Tom and Lucy between their twentieth century present and their civil war past lives, The Bridge will keep you on the edge of your seat and send shivers up your spine.

5m, 3f

  • Lucy Sheldon - 17
  • Tom Denham - 18
  • John Atkin - Looks about 40

Lucy and Tom should ideally speak with quite broad Worcester accents. John Atkin has the sound of the accent about him, but it should not be so apparent. When the script says “17th century”, then the actors will wear costume of that period.

Jones' theme, inspired by the Civil war and the Battle of Worcester, is an interesting one. Namely the repeated patterns of human experience stretching across the centuries. He taps into the eeriness that old buildings can give, of an almost felt presence of those who have been there before, and makes this his starting point for an intriguing psychological drama. Ann Fitzgerald, The Stage

Thriller play is first rate - History is doing more than repeating itself in this fantastically innovative and well-crafted play by Worcester playwright Alex Jones. A supernatural chamber piece. Writer, Alex Jones is the man of the man of the moment with his play River's Up also running at the Worcester's Swan Theatre. This refreshing and gripping play boosts his reputation as a writer to be reckoned with. David Lewins, Worcester Evening News

A well-crafted juxtaposition of today's disenfranchised youth with Cromwellian fighting and troubles, the story told with Cromwellian fighting and troubles, the story told of a young couple deeply in love, spanning the centuries pursued by a malevolent Rigsby-like landlord with intentions, of course, on the girl. It had us on the edge of our seats and engrossed in the interplay and interpolations of the trouble both then and now, police became militia and time stood still. Spencer Lane, Malvern Gazette

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The Bridge

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The Bridge was performed on a 4 week tour by Pentabus Theatre in 1999.

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