Diary of an Action Man

This play is about boys and their fathers, and the difficult journey from boy to man. When the play begins we seem to be looking at an ideal family on a normal day, Dad is a soldier. Only at the end of the first scene does the penny drop: the father exists only in the boy’s head.
The play was first performed by an integrated cast of disabled and non-disabled actors, in a style which allowed access for all children through integrated descriptive passages, and a “secret” coded sign language borrowed from BSL and gestural language. The issues of access are woven into the fabric of the script so it becomes a play for all children to own. (adapted from the Director’s Notes accompanying the published script (Oberon 2009))