Jim W Cartwright

Las Vegas Bandits: The Untold Stories

What is the origin of the name, BANDITS? How did Sam and Alex become associated with Officer Scott? How did Sam and Phil Koenig become enemies? What dangerous adventure did the gang have at the beach? This collection of short stories, “Scavenger Hunt,” “Meeting the Enemy,” “A Day at the Beach,” “The...

Great Jokes 2: A Really Funny Collection of Truly Good Jokes

Author Jim Cartwright has been scouring joke-hoards from around the world at great personal risk for well over a decade. He infiltrated (and then escaped from) the depths of Compton, the depths of the Hamptons, and even the notoriously-lethal Women’s Institute... but he couldn’t escape the AISB. Now...

Great Jokes: A Really Funny Collection of Truly Good Jokes

Golfers. Drinkers. Animals. The Military. Relationships. Dan Quayle. Anything and everything is up for grabs in this extensive collection of hilarious jokes. After fifteen years down in the joke mines, author Jim Cartwright is covered in gag-dust, and he smells of clowns. It was all worth it though,...

Las Vegas Bandits 2: Winds of Change

Summer 1983. Over a year and a half has passed for Sam, Travis, Alex, Kevin, Randy and Richie. The group of friends continue to use Las Vegas for their private playground, but responsibilities and obligations slowly begin to separate the gang. A series of events, beyond his control, forces Sam into ...

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Methuen Modern Plays)

Winner of the 1992 Evening Standard Best Comedy Award and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Comedy,"The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a cracker, original, hilarious and hauntingly sad" (Daily Telegraph)"Like everything Cartwright writes, Little Voice is playful, magical and terrifying, a view of th...

Road (Acting Edition)

Under the guidance of the rum-soaked wideboy Scullery, we are taken on an evening's tour of a scruffy, depressed road in a small Lancashire town. Moving from street corner to living room, from bedroom to kitchen, we meet the inhabitants of young, middle-aged, and old, glimpsing their socially and em...

National Theatre Connections 2013 (Plays and Playwrights)

Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play is specifically com...

'Two' & 'Bed' (Modern Classics)

Two: 'A sharp, salty, quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.' The GuardianBed: 'It's insights into the twilight world of old age are remarkable, Cartwright's ode to sleep fizzes with puns and free association and brims with the confidence of a craft...

John McCormack : A Comprehensive Discography