Why is Rumpelstiltskin never performed as a pantomime? Is it because there's no solid moral? It all begins with a lie; the lie is escalated by greed for gold and even the fairytale marriage is based on the poor miller's daughter being able to provide the King with wealth and not the usual boy-meets-girl, love-at-first-sight plot device. That's why I like it. Because people are not fairytale characters. People really do exaggerate, lie and seek treasure. It has to be said, mind you, in Rumpelstiltskin's case, if you have a grand, master plan that hinges on nobody knowing your name, Don't, I...

A play in two acts. Everyone knows the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, that's old news. What nobody knows is the story of the rats, the mice and the cats of Hamelin, and why the power-hungry rats began to overrun the town in the first place. Come on a journey to Hamelin's furry underbelly and meet the vicious rats, the clever mice and the arrogant cats, three very different species who learn that maybe, just maybe, they have more in common than they realise and that sometimes, a little friendship goes a long way. Originally written for children, the concept was simple. The Cats were the...

These plays are inspired by the sort of interesting moral questions that wriggle into my brain and won't go away until I've written something weird and (hopefully) wonderful. I happily offer these plays to any amateur dramatic society free of charge. (as long as I remain named playwright) I collected these particular plays together because they all have a similar theme, and are suitable for one-act-play festivals if a group wants to chew over something deep and meaningful (or just plain bizarre.)

Misha Price is a reasonably ordinary fourteen-year-old living in a tiny little village halfway up a mountain in Snowdonia. It's not the most exciting place on earth, but when something happens that brands her either psychotic or dangerous or both, life quickly becomes intolerable. Sent by her worried parents to stay with her Great-Uncle Elijah, Misha begins to learn that maybe she isn't psychotic at all; maybe she isn't imagining seven-foot angels or imagining demons squatting in the bodies of her innocent school-friends. Maybe these things, however incredible, are the truth. Maybe she isn't...

Misha Heath is the creator of a phenomenally popular series of novels set in another world. These peculiar, often surreal stories that capture the imagination mix outlandish sci-fi with fantasy and draw the reader into a universe that's quite different to our own. The only problem is, they're not fiction. Not quite. Despite a hundred warnings, Misha continues to write, right up until the moment her fantasy universe bleeds into this one, throwing the entire human population into a scenario of alien invasion that terrifies the world. The human race is unprepared and, as Misha's son Sandy points...

Misha Heath is the world's greatest multi-tasker. Housewife. Mother. Writer. Runner. Warrior, creator and goddess of an entire other universe. Just your usual sort of stuff. Somehow she copes with one foot in a fantasy world made solid, and the other in a world of Angels and demons where the demonic kingdom - the Sitra Achra - fights to destroy every ounce of joy, laughter, peace, friendship or pleasure that exists, and Misha and others like her battle to push back the advancing evil with every waking breath. It doesn't leave an awful lot of time for the school run though. Now there's a wound...