Title
Rose in a Garden of Weeds

Author
Joan Wallace

Four novels published: INDEPENDENT STREET, TWO OF CLUBS, INDEPENDENT STREET AT WAR, and RAGTIME JOE. She has written numerous short stories that have been published locally and nationally, and have been broadcast. Her plays, sketches and monologues are regularly performed throughout the country and an award-winning play has been televised. She has won a number of local and prestigious international awards for her various writings.

Synopsis
Rose is middle-aged and dowdy. She lives with her father, Daddy George, who has suffered a stroke and is totally dependent on Rose.

Rose has a plan. She and her friend May, set up a chatline. They lie outrageously to clients - prerend to be beautiful, young and sexy. They speak with fake accents and soon, fantasy becomes reality. They die their hair, and dress up in outrageous clothes - thet feel safe inside their new fantasy world.

Soon, they are transformed from dowdy middle-aged women into women of their imaginations. But, only Rose and May can see the transformation. View extract.

Cast
2 female, 1 male

Duration
90 mins

Contact
24 Freemount Drive
Beechdale
Nottingham
NG8 3GL
UK




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