Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency is an inspiring new musical based on the true story of how a small group of revolutionaries proved that real change is really possible. Based on an original work by Heathcote Williams, written by Coventry-born Sarah Woods, with music by Chumbawamba’s Boff Whalley, and directed by Adrian Jackson – the production included a choir of local people with experience of homelessness formed in partnership with the Choir with No Name. Selected plays (writer) Mincemeat (2001) Mincemeat was first performed in 2001. This production was the first theatrical play based on real events in which an ordinary person affects a bigger sweep in history. The play is based on the extraordinary true story of a second-world-war deception, through which the Allies made the Germans believe that they would open a second front in Europe in 1943 through Sardinia. The deception involved a corpse whose identity was a state secret, known only to the originator of the operation, who took the secret to his grave. It was only in 1997 that the true identity of the corpse came to light. Mincemeat was praised as a remarkable piece of theatre: multi- layered, passionate and as innovative as anything on offer on the London stage. Theatre critic, Lyn Gardner, added that ‘Its success lies not in the script or the performances, which are excellent, or the fact that it is a good story that needs telling, but rather in the way form and content reflect each other. Mincemeat is a journey into the past, into death and into identity, and it is performed in different locations in an old derelict factory building. As you wander though the empty rooms and down cracked staircases you begin an expedition into the past in which the lives of the dispossessed and forgotten are rediscovered ...There is no nostalgia here, just clear-eyed acknowledgement that the dispossessed, the poor, the mentally troubled and the homeless are always with us and the powerful will simply ignore them or, if they believe there is a need, wipe them from history. There is no better reminder that behind every statistic is a face and behind every dead body a person and a story. One that in this case makes you angry and makes you cry.’ A Few Man Fridays (2012) Described as ‘a swirl of stories connecting different places and times, and slipping between fact and fiction.’