Playwright

2026

The Last Train

Set in 1963, the drama is set against the imminent closure of the local branch line as a group of amateur actors rehearse Anton Chekov’s play The Cherry Orchard.

2022

Axbridge Pageant

Harry updated the script for the 2020 Axbridge Pageant in conjunction with the artistic director of the play John Bailey. The pageant was been put back to 2022 due to Covid 19. As a member of the cast Harry appeared in the Romano-British funeral scene, the Lady Day Fair, the Fighting Reverend Gould scene as The Second and he made an appearance as Cecil Sharpe the Edwardian sequence.

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2011-12

Push

Written and directed by Harry Mottram Push was staged in The Oakhouse Hotel Axbridge and the Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol. It was a comic kitchen sink drama with songs was about a mother and daughter as the mother was heavily pregnant – the daughter’s boyfriend being the father of the child. It included a special film of all the off-stage action made on location in Bristol and Somerset by film director Geoff Dunlop.

See the videos made Geoff Dunlop

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2010

Junk

Tolstoy the bear, Zak the Zebra, and Rachel the rag doll are thrown into a skip. When they hear about what might happen to them they plan to escape. When the Plastic Mastic Man emerges they take flight and leave the dump. Written and performed by Harry Mottram. Various venues across the South West.

2010

Axbridge Pageant

Harry updated the script for the 2010 Axbridge Pageant in conjunction with the artistic director of the play John Bailey. He introduced and appeared a new scene of a Romano-British funeral scene, and wrote in the battle sequence of Danes and Saxons and also played The Spiv in the World War 2 scene.

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2009 Better Than Sex

A 35 minute one man play about Harry’s weekend when he tries out ten things that are better than sex – on the suggestion of his partner when she goes off on girls’ weekend leaing him facing two whole days without sex. He tries chocolate, massage, drugs, football and even winning the National Lottery. It is performed using stand-up comedy, performance poetry and drama.

Written and performed by Harry Mottram. Directed by Diane Lukins. Staged in Plymouth, Exeter and Axbridge.

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2008

Dodgy Keeper

Dodgy Keeper is a man who is in denial. His life is chaos. His marriage, job and position in his beloved football team are all under threat. And it’s all his fault. One fateful afternoon, it all comes to a head. Harry Mottram, directed by John Bailey, delivers a high octane, high energy comedy drama. With storytelling, song, a special film (a mini soap opera) made by BBC’s Matthew Hill, a selection of notes on the world’s dodgiest goal keepers, blank verse and physical comedy, the world of Dodgy Keepers and football is bought to life in an enthralling performance that appeals to men, women, older children and teenagers. The play toured twice with sell out theatres in Backwell and Axbridge and also feature in the Edinburgh Festival.

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2006 Demob Happy

2005 Waiting for the Sherry

2004 Rattle His Bones

2003 Fox Furs and Fag-Ends

2002 Starter, Main, Sweet

2001 Romans Rioters and Rotters

2000 Axbridge Pageant

Harry updated the script for the 2000 Axbridge Pageant in conjunction with the artistic director of the play John Bailey and appeared in the World War 2 scene at The Spiv.

1999 The House on the Square

1998 Old Mother Hubbard

1997 Humpty Dumpty

1978 The Princess Can’t Dance