Helen Rappaport

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

The Perfect House

A woman's new house hides a sinister secret.

One Chance in Four

Play which examines the conflict between the generations of a Greek-Cypriot family. Dimitri and Trulla are to be married. All seems well for the newly-weds, but there is a mystery surrounding Trulla's cousin Janni. An element of the play concerns the genetically-inherited disease thalassaemia. One effect of the disease is that survivors continue to have the appearance of 14-year-olds, even in their 20s. Due to the impossibility of simulating this, thalassaemic patients take part in the play.

Operation Magic Carpet

“Go on. Go mad – let her in. We’ve let in twenty-odd thousand already. She’s pretty, and Leicester could do with a decent few birds.” 19 Year old Indian girl Taruna Patel arrives at London Airport on her first visit to England but an immigration officer suspects she may be hiding something about the facts of her trip.