Online publishers LazyBee Scripts are to publish two more plays from Peter John Cooper's back catalogue.  They will be "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Vanishing Author" which had great success in Oxford in the 1980s and the more recent "A Brief Encounter with Murder" - a large cast comedy.  All Peter has to do now is to bring the formatting up to date for publication so expect a little while to elapse as this is a very time consuming process.

The Sherlock Holmes Play is a witty investigation of the relationship between the Great Detective and his writer who became enraged that the public ignored his more literary efforts for these potboilers and decided to kill him off for ever.  It is a three hander eminently suitable for small scale touring. "A Brief Encounter with Murder" is an hilarious farce about a family supposedly on holiday in 1946 when a series of callers beginning with a red-bearded fisherman invade the house and the vicar ends up dead on the front-room carpet. With a cast of ten it's ideal for ambitious amateur companies.

"People believe in conspiracies because they want to. The only reason we have conspiracy theories is because people want conspiracies. Not because there are conspiracies." - Mrs. Adapta Iago

Is Mrs Adapta Iago running the biggest conspiracy of all, though?  In Peter John Cooper's hilarious new play the cosy knitting circle that meets in Mrs Adapta Iago's front room every Tuesday and Thursday is not all it seems.

We may be on the verge of negotiating a first full production for this.  Watch this space.  And if you'd like to invest in this brilliant piece of theatre just email us on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it