The Knucker Hole
by Karen Sainsbury
The Play:
The Knucker Hole was one of the winners of the Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights' Competition in 1995/6.
The play is centred on Dr Burroughs, a behavioural psychologist, and a young researcher, Alex Stirling, a staunch believer in dragons who is searching for a knucker hole, where according to Saxon legend a dragon is reputed to live. Burroughs is reluctant to help Alex locate the pool, and hinders him the whole way. At the pool, both find what they are not expecting, and Burroughs' housekeeper, Mrs McKenzie, appears to know more than she is letting on.
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The Playwright:
Karen Sainsbury is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester College, specialising in Script Writing. She was one of the ten winners of the Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights' Competition in 1995/6 and has recently written a ten-minute radio play, VIP, which is in pre-production with Minute Radio Drama. She was awarded the Linda Moore Memorial Award for exceptional commitment to study in 1994, and the Laureate Prize for English in her last years of study at school. She is a full member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
The Cast:
Dr Burroughs - Alfred Burke
Mrs McKenzie - Jennifer Piercey
Alex Stirling - Ian Arthur
Directed by - Richard Shannon
