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Performed:

July 2001 - Theatre Royal, Margate (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...4 performances

September 2001 - The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...1 performance

September 2007 - Westgate Pavilion Theatre, Margate (Directed by Peter Such)...2 performances

Synopsis:

God is in a dilemma. The angels of the celestial realm has left their jobs due to mismanagement of their employer and have al joined Hell.

Seduced by the sultry voluptuous Devil, St Peter has become a transvestite alcoholic. Gabriel has fallen in love with an engineer in hell and is constantly stoned, and the angel of Death...well, he is feeling broody and is 'doing it' with every female in order to produce petite morts all over the place.

In desperation, god listens to Issac Ismael, a Jewish antique dealer who with the help of laughing gas astral travels and claims to know much about many dimensions of existence. Upon Isaac's advice, God comes to Earth with the hope of finding new staff to replace the lost staff in the celestial realm.

After visiting some most ardent believers: A Christian, A Moslem, A Buddhist and a Pagan...God returns to heaven utterly dismayed by the falsity of the ideas about the creator on Earth and after a failed attempt gatecrashing in hell...an alien who has been witnessing this entire shenanigans enlightens God to the hierarchy of creation, freedom of will, responsibility of the creator and how Truth is Relative....even a God's truth!

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Performed:

February 2002 - Theatre Royal, Margate (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...3 performances

Synopsis:

Wonder lives in the 8 dimension. As her name indicates she wanders to wonder...traveling through all existence in her glowing vessel..

In the 5th dimension she meets with the Diamond Matrix, where she is enticed to visit the 3rd dimension.

Arriving on Earth, dealing with our atmosphere, gravity and the unpredictable elements she ends up outside of the Thorn residence.

Mrs Thorn, a superstitious old fashioned lady refuses to share the enthusiasm expressed by Sarah (her daughter) Olive (her niece) and Basil (Olive's fiancé) when confronted with many magic performed by Wonder.

Wonder then invites Basil and Sarah to travel with her. She takes them to the 8th dimension where thy meet Orbit and Teller and learn how to hear with their hands and talk with their mind.

Returning home, Basil and Sarah cannot tell of their experiences or explain how their ailments have been healed...they cannot express how love of life cures.

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The First Caterpillar on Earth
Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

February 2002 - Theatre Royal, Margate (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...3 performances

Synopsis:

Moon-Juice delivers the very first baby to Earth given by Lady Moon via the silvery moon rays.

The child experiences a world filled with fairies, gnomes and cats. The cats are all mad residing in an assylum guarded by kitty-nymph.
Chook chook and Achoo-gnome, find it difficult as the fairies don't exactly get on with them...especially Tangle-knot forever looking for troubles pesters them to the limit. The time fairies: Future-fizz, Now-here and past-pot, Yucca-puka and Season-flip try teaching the human of the ways of nature when one day a strange phenomena happens.

There came a crawling creature that they have never seen before, its body so soft and silky and the fairies adored caressing it. They were all so happy with this unknown creature.

Then one day after an eclipse they find the creature is gone and in its place is a fluffy bundle. They think the creature has died...you can imagine how scared they got when they felt the fluff moving.

Curious, they peeked into the hole on top of the fluff and find an ugly black creature is struggling to come out.

Yucca-Pukka offers a blade of yucca and with its sharp edge they cut the fluff open...then watched in horror as the black ugly creature emerging dying in front of them.

Desperate, they call on the wise wizard from behind the hills who logs into creator files to find out the creature was a caterpillar, the fluff was a cocoon and the fairies helping it out of the cocoon was in fact why it died.

Because of their interference, the wizard had to create a veil, and send all elementals to the other side of the veil, where they cannot be seen by Earth people and from where they could not interfere with things.

That is why we cannot see them anymore....but it was a shame that fairies never got to see the most beautiful first butterfly on earth.

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Sacred Exchange

Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

August 2002 - Theatre Royal, Margate (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...3 performances

Synopsis:

Part One:

Set in winter 2001 - Blavatsky family...suffering every dysfunctional symptom of the modern world; alcoholism, adultery, theft, gender confusion,  divorce,  violence, lies, debt...you get the gist!

Part Two:

Set 50'000 years ago - pure humans living in total harmony together and with nature, using the power of sound to build their pyramids.

Then...'they' arrive - from planet Niburu. Led by Nafal - the most power greedy creature this side of the unverse...they decide to take over Earth and Hoomans. To have humans complying to their demands they need to have them wanting what they want.

They can only do this by changing humans' DNA...and the only way to do that is by mixing their seeds with them.

Nafal succeeds...and to keep his reign strong, he seals the atmosphere ofthe planet with the power of sound...he places devices in every home and calls them Telepathic Visions, and creates a warning system called Moneta.

The planet and its inhabitants were then ready...for the future experienced by the Blavatsky's.

All humans apart from one!

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An Audience with H.R.H. and her Iranian Maid

A Duo act comedy written and performed by Joanna Smith and Roxana Riaz

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Avissa

Written by Roxana Riaz

Dedicated to Avissa Riaz-Amirshahi

Performed:

May 2003 - Westgate Pavilion Theatre (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...3 Performances

Synopsis:

Marcello, a dance teacher has escaped the city, his ex, his debts and his responsibilities and has taken refuge in The Haunted Beach, secluded from all apart from the old fisherman who lives in a hut nearby. The fisherman tells tales of mythical sea creatures but Marcello never takes them seriously.

Until one day he finds all his students from his old dance class on the beach...they traced him down insisting that they need to be taught by him. So he starts holding his classes on the beach.

Neptune, the squid and the crab all concerned about Avissa, the most beautiful mermaid who has become obsessed with watching Marcello's class from the waves, longing to join the class and dancing like those other girls.

Worried about the inevitability of Avissa's passionate wish, Neptune gives her the magic pearl...wishing upon which would bring wishes to reality - but after one wish the owner must pass the pearl on to another worthy person. He warns her nevertheless, that she, being an immortal can never have passions of the flesh with a mortal as that would be the only way to return her to the sea...but as foam.

Without haste Avissa wishes to have legs and sure enough, she is granted them and she too can dance. Ignoring the jealousy of other girls (In particular Dita the village girl) Marcello falls deeply in love with Avissa. It was inevitable for them to consume the pleasures of flesh...and Avissa...returns to the sea as foam.

Nobody could help Marcello's lament, apart from him remembering the Pearl Avissa gave him.

He wishes for Avissa's return as a mortal.

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Imaginati was a part of: The Musical Variety Show

January 2003

Westgate Pavilion Theatre

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For Old Times Sake

Written by Roxana Riaz

A Commission by Sir Stanley Grey Pub

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RIVER TEMPO

Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

February 2004 - Westgate Pavilion Theatre (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...4 performances

Synopsis:

TELLER tells the story as it is, but what she says is considered old wives tale. HISTORY recounts the events to THE LAW who vigorously creates laws according to what HISTORY tells. But unfortunately, HISTORY keeps falling asleep just at the crucial part of an event...and so...he makes what he missed up. And the story these three fight over is this:

Twin brothers, King Musa and King Baya each rule their people either side of the river of time. Musa tribe live on the land of Fire and Baya tribe live on the land of Ice. The brothers hate each other and none of their people are allowed any contact with the other side.

Fate has other plans though as Princess Allegria (Kind Baya's only daughter) and Prince Jambo (King Musa's only son) fell in love and dare to cross te river in order to be together.

This creates a war between the tribes in which both sides give much casualty. so the kings and their guards do what anyone would do in the moment of despair...they prayed. And their call invoked the 4 goddesses of nature: Earth, Fire, Air, Water.

The Goddesses were horrified to hear the armies have died with no consent of their own will...hence they raised the dead in order to ask them to choose.

The armies, led by Allegria chose to be united. And that was so...the Goddesses lifted the river and the two tribes then had to live as one.

Princess Allegria and Prince Jambo married and reigned a peaceful and just kingdom. They were blessed with the joy their twin sons brought...until...as the young princes grew, an innate hate became apparent between them. From a young age they separated their friends and their plays and nothing the King and Queen did would bring them peace.

Eventually the twins murdered their own parents, and started ruling their separate tribes...

And the river of time flowed again...witnessing how man kills man in the name of war, just because a brother cannot live in peace with another brother.

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Tango for Timbuktu

A commission by Inner Wheel Rotary Club, Margate

Queen Goozadooza has arrived from Africa. She has had many husbands but none of them live beyond th weeding night and they all die with a big smile.

So she is in England in search of a new husband...and on this night, she is adamant to find her husband amidst the members of the audience.

There has been entertainment arranged in her honour and the greedy Queen creates jealousy among the dancers.

She is not bothered as she leaves with two lucky chosen men!

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The Seal of Thanet

Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

September 2004 - Westgate Pavilion Theatre (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...3 performances

Synopsis:

Vincent Blase the local tramp seems to be nothing but a lazy nuisance, aggravating the council workers and acting strange. Scrounging free teas and food from the pub opposite the famous Obelisk of Ramsgate.

One of the strange things he does, is that every now and then he tentatively listens to the obelisk and claims a buzzing sound comes of it.

Due to the turn of events, Vincent starts acting more and more strange and asks the waitress, Minu to keep a crystal ball for him and to make sure she keeps it near the Obelisk.

A couple of the locals follow Vincent's scattered messages and investigate the tramp's warnings and they discover existence of an Egyptian Talisman cleverly hidden within the isle's architecture. The Seal of Osiris...a trinity consisting of an obelisk (Representing Osirus, the father) - A Dome (Representing Isis, The mother) - and A Star (Representing the son, Horus). They also find the same seal exists in many other parts of the world including Washington DC and Vatican.

All this was too late as on a dark lonbely night, the obelisk lights up, The Dome vibrates and the shadows come to collect the sphere from Vincent (As the sphere would protect the area from the evil of this talisman).

Vincent in his last breath fools them and hands them a fake sphere.

After the funeral - Minu, who now realised the gravity of all Vincent was saying, quits her job, wearing the tramp's jacket...taking his place to listen to the buzzing of the Obelisk (audible only to the holedr of the sphere).

That is when two new comers to town, two young girls, come to enquire about their world renowned anthropologist father: Vincent Blase.

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ELAHE

Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

March 2006 - Westgate Pavilion Theatre (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...3 performances

Synopsis:

St Dymphna Mental Health Clinic, run by the evil Dr Edmund contains 8 patients, each suffering with an emotional disorder. They each are hilarious characters with their own particularities. To name a few, Chris lives with the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Johannes Sebastian Bach - Izzy is a nymphomeniac  - Mac has an army obsession and goes as far as arresting, kidnapping and holding hostage one of the audience - Judith suffers from Munchausen and sleep disorders and so on.

Dr Edmund abuses his patients financially as well as physically and the staff are oblivious to this (although a new nurse starts suspecting the odd events).

Until Elahe arrives - one by one she heals the patients by confronting them with their emotive past and just when all the ptients are ready to leave the clinic and start their new lives...Elahe and Dr Edmund clash and the result is the shattering of Dr Edmund's nervous system, a consented consequence of him agreeing to pay for his wrongs.

St Dymphna Clinic, being a microcosm of our society....let us all hope for an Elahe...the agent of change.

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The First Rainbow on Earth

Written by Roxana Riaz

A sequel to The First Caterpillar on Earth

Performed:

August 2005 The Centre, Birchington (Directed by Anthi Thalis)...4 performances

Synopsis:

We know from the story of First Caterpillar on Earth (Performed 2002) that a veil was put up to keep the fairies and gnomes away from the real life on earth so that they cant interfere with nature and humans.

Well, on one particular low tide, Tangle-Knot has tangle wangled the edges of the veil and all the elementals could squeeze themselves back into our world. Only to find out that the rainbow fairies are missing. The rainbow will have no colour without them.

In their search for the rainbow fairies they are amazed at how humans have changed and all the new technology, make up and other matters of the modern world baffles them. However, they manage to glimpse on the flight of a couple of butterflies...they had never seen one!

Eventually with the help of the wizard and alertness of choock chook they find the rainbow fairies one by one and the colours come back to the rainbow. Just in time before the tide comes up and they be stuck this side of the veil!!!

Alas, Chook chook never manages to give his gift (The Sun) to his beloved Lady Moon .. so to this day Lady Moon still is seraching the sky wanting to find the sun.

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Contraries

Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

February 2006 - The Centre, Birchington (Directed by Peter Such) ...3vperformances

Synopsis:

The story of 8 couples who live a monotonous married life with each other and each couple hate each other to the core.

The wives knew the men meet for a boys night out on a regular basis.

They didn't know however that their husbands belong to a bizarre fraternity in which they worship the feminine - they perform strangest of rituals, and to honour the great G spot of Universe, they wear ceremonial bras! The higher the rank of a member of the brotherhood, the bigger cup brasserie they adorn themselves with.

The husbands knew their ladies meet for a girlie night out on a regular basis.

They didn't know that their wives belong to a bizarre sorority in which they worship the masculine - they perform the strangest of rituals, and they worship phallic symbols in honour of the great Baal.

One night amidst their rituals the women's voodoo practice actually works...and it ends up exposing the men...and where the women's missing bras had gone to.

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To Each Their Own

Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

September 2006 Westgate Pavilion Theatre (Directed by Roxana Riaz)...3 performances

Synopsis:

Set in Hart Guest House, one of the permanent residents return from a holiday in Devon, he has brought with him a huge stone, to use as an ornament in the guest house.

The owner, Maureen Hart, an alcoholic with much financial problems is constantly chastised by her sister, Ayleen.

A winning lottery ticket is lost and the greed to find it and claim the money brings out the ark side of each of the residents. Amidst the search for the ticket and the love triangles and dramas...Maureen suffers liver failure and dies.

The stone from Devon turns out to be an egg...and one night unbeknown to all residents, a creature hatches out of it - the new born creature is amazed that nobody can see her...but she witnesses the pain Maureen is going through as well as the evilness of each of the residents.

Only when Maureen dies, she can see the creature and together they influence a séance held by the residents to expose who has the winning lottery ticket. And yuo would not believe who has it...and where!!!!

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The Frolickers Festival

<After six years of work in Thanet, creating all the above shows, we decided to make Frolickers...a branch of imaginati which
focuses of cabarets, stand up comedy and smaller projects.

During the first sic years we were completely self sufficient and we borrowed and stole in order to create our shows.

We were told that we tick all the boxes in order to get a government grant in this expansion of the company.

We applied for £1000 grant...and in reply we were told by Thanet Strategic Partnership that the application for grant is refused because: 'There is no evidence of a group!!!'

We carried on...as before.

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Again, farewell Thanet and thanks for the fishes!>

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The Matriarch

Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

March 2008 - Westgate Pavilion Theatre (Directed by Roxana Riaz) ...3 performances

Synopsis:

The House of Persephone is a house of ill repute...run by Leonora Mariam Majdely (Nora).

The house entertains many influential men under the cover of a cabaret.

An investigative journalist (Aaron Avalon) is called by a corrupt detective to find out why every girl who joins this house goes mad within a short period of time.

Aaron soon finds out that Nora is the very woman that his father (a Geneticist) has been obsessed with all his life. He also finds out that Nora...is in fact the Mary Magdalene who has lived throughout the last 2 centuries holding on to a secret (The missing parts of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene).

She is sought after by the Alliance...who wish to get hold of her well kept secret for their evil purposes.

Nora, constantly seeking a successor passes on parts of the secret to her girls...the Alliance then, influencing the girls to give the parts of the secret to them and in the process the girls go mad.

To this date...The Secret...remains with THE WOMAN!

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The Sophs

Written by Roxana Riaz

Performed:

October 2008 - Westgate Pavilion Theatre (Directed by Roxana Riaz) ...3 performances

Synopsis:

The locals street, with the violent chavs, odd Goth and the strange neighbours. A Playwright is finding it difficult to write. Dismayed by the fake praises and unproductive criticisms about his last play - disturbed by the noisy neighbourhood - he has lost his je nais sais quoi! Lacking inspiration, he decides to write about what is going on in his street.

Taking notes of the chavs bullying and mogging the Goths, a veil opens...and 3 of the people of his street: A chav, A Goth and his crazy foreign neighbour are beckoned by someone from the other side to go through the veil.

They enter the Land of The Sophs. Simple and childlike people of Soph's lives is based on the codicil left from their last king's will. In their innocence they have great wisdom and they help the three visitors change to become the best of what they can be. The Sophs way of healing all ailments is by tickling as laughter heals everyting.

In return, the visitors take three of the Sophs (Curious, Sense and Query) back through the veil with them.

In our world, The Sophs suffer greatly...the noises, the pollution and the impure food. They last for so long only with the help if regular tickling...but when t is time to return, Curious who is the guest of the playwright decides to stay behind and help the writer write his next play.

So the Sophs was written...and just before the veil dissappears, Curious takes the writer to the Land of Soph so that he can see what he has written about.

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Farewell Imaginati xxx

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