The Goddess - Radio 4 2024
Small Miracle (Mercury Colchester/ Kiln Theatre)
When Sadie, her mother, step-father and grandmother arrive at the caravan park of a religious shrine in rural Ireland, a series of increasingly weird happenings ensue. It’s a hilarious spiritual road-trip centred on the feuding family but is set against the backdrop of a much bigger question about religion.
Can the family get their relationships and their journey back on the road?
A work of both generosity and charm."
One of those welcome plays that send you out into the night feeling better than when you went in."
A pleasing mix of the prosaically real and the weirdly unreal."
Charm, ebullience and unfocused flair by the bucket-load."
A writer with a sharp and compassionate eye for the engagingly offbeat.”
Coming Up (Watford Palace Theatre)
India is coming up, fast. Full of optimism, industry and self-made millionaires, the future is bright for the sub-continent but there are still huge divides between rich and poor.
A bittersweet father and son story, Coming Up is set in Mumbai where Alan has returned on business after 30 years in the UK. Stressed and irritable, he moves around the city in an air conditioned car grudgingly visiting his relatives in between meetings.
Alan needs to learn to reconnect with the people and places he once counted as home, but will he be able to overcome his anger before it's too late?
Richly inventive, playful ... something very special indeed."
Playfully evocative of an endlessly fascinating country."
Out of Season (Hampstead Theatre)
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Stage
Yes - the band is back in town! Michael, Chris and Dev are returning to Ibiza and the hotel where it all began thirty years ago... But Michael’s stuck in London, Dev’s got a bad back and Chris... well, he’s just Chris. And it turns out that none of them are in their twenties anymore! As this middle-aged trip down memory lane is about to hurtle off the tracks, Holly and Amy arrive, so down-to-earth they might just save our feckless heroes from really humiliating themselves...
Neil D’Souza’s razor-sharp comedy picks over the gulf between past aspirations and present realities - how we can come to terms with the past and find a way to face the future.
The genius of D’Souza writing is that it carries all the complexities of long-term friendship."
A giddy feast of nostalgia and abandoned dreams"
Hilarious yet devastating new play offers fresh perspectives on bachelorhood."
I would gladly watch a six-part series dedicated to these two characters navigating a holiday together, but D’Souza’s incisive, sharp-witted play goes on to explore so much more."
It compels from beginning to end."
Tender Coconuts – comedy pilot (ITV/ Granada)
The Bollywoods – comedy pilot (BBC)
Dr Brighton – feature film spec script
Five Beats To The Bar (Radio 4 play)
Westway (Continuing Drama for BBC World Service)
The Goddess (Radio 4 play)