BITE SIZE PLAYS XL
26 - 29 November 2025
Our latest Bite Size Plays production will feature two short comedies and a one act comedy written by Tony Domaille, at The Swan Thornbury, Grace Care Centre Thornbury, and Oldbury Memorial Hall.
'Early Grave' - A man gets a surprise visit from an undertaker.
'The Importance of Peaches' - Southbury's AmDram group is on the point of folding. Can anything save them?
'Members of the Jury' - A wicked pantomime queen is on trial for her cr9mes and you are the jury!
The Swan has sold out four weeks before production, so make sure you get your tickets for Oldbury early - they sell fast!
We opened the Bristol One Act Festival 27th February 2025 at The Olympus Theatre, Bristol. BS34 8LP with Tony Domaille's original drama 'I Know a Place' featuring Alex Nixon, Phil Domaille, Sarah Cully Morgan and Sarah Wiggins.
'This was a beautifully chilling opening to our festival. You kept us on tenterhooks as the the story unfolded and ticked by. Would Lucy be found dead or alive? 'This was an extremely competent piece of theatre, very nicely directed and presented by this talented group.' (Jan Palmer Sayer - GoDA)
Nominations -
Best Décor, Best Actor – Phil Domaille as Dr Vincent, Alex Nixon as Damien Curtis, Best Director - Ella Dimapo
Award -
Best Supporting Actress – Sarah Wiggins as Lucy
Then we appeared on the opening night of the Avon Short Play Festival on 6th March at Chipping Sodbury Town Hall. That performance collected more nominations and awards -
Nominations -
Phil Domaille Best Supporting Actor and Sarah Wiggins Best Actress.
Awards -
Best Technical, Peter Minshall. Best Director, Ella Dimapo, Best Original Script, Tony Domaille, Best Actor, Alex Nixon, Best Play, JTP Theatre.
We went on to represent Avon in the Regional Final at the Merlin Theatre, Frome on 17 May where we were delighted by audience and adjudicator reactions to the play.
A radio version of the play also featured on Thornbury Radio in May, completing a successful run.
The script for 'I Know a Place' won the UK Community Drama Festivals Federation Geoffrey Whitworth Award for Best Original Script. This is the third time one of Tony Domaille's scripts has won the award after 'Normal For' in 2022 and 'Even Numbers' in 2023.
The play had a rehearsed reading at the British One Act Final in Lichfield where Tony was presented with the award.
Productions
RADIO
Our short plays and monologues feature on Thornbury Radio, every Tuesday evening between 7 and 8pm. We can also be found from time to time on BBC Radio Bristol, Somerset, Gloucester and Wiltshire.
JTP Theatre's radio work is kindly sponsored by Bonds Estate Agents of Thornbury
BITE SIZE THEATRE WITH JTP
Our Youtube channel also has our plays and monologues, first performed
on BBC Radio or Thornbury Radio.
PAST PRODUCTIONS
December on Thornbury Radio
Tune in to Thornbury Radio from 7pm on Tuesday evenings to listen to one of our many Bite Size radio plays, or monologues.
The theme for December (unsurprisingly) is 'It's Christmas!
2 December ‘I Know What You’ve Been Thinking’ written by Claire Jaggard and read by Phil Domaille. Is Santa naughty or nice?
9 December ‘Christmas the Modern Way’, a story by Mariann Dale, read by Lynne Cartlidge. Santa’s reindeers are worried that they might be replaced by technology!
16 December ‘The Christmas Gift’. Nigel Lane delivers Tony Domaille’s story with a man struggling to find a gift for his wife.
23 December ‘Stable Relations’. Peter James features in his own short comedy with Lynne Cartlidge. One night, a long time ago…
30 December ‘Office Party’. Tony Domaille reads Doug Easthope’s comic monologue.
LISTEN AGAIN
https://www.thornbury.radio/listen/podcasts/theatre
JTP Theatre very much appreciate the kind sponsorship of their radio work by Bonds of Thornbury Estate Agents, 14, The Plain, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 2BD Tel 01454 858007
