Mark Catley

Crap Dad

Mark Catley

‘I drink too much, my toilet looks like a bomb site and I eat crisps for breakfast. I’m not fit to be someone’s father.’ When Paul meets Marie outside the headmaster’s office it’s hardly love at first sight. More like, ‘What you playing at you frigging psycho?’ And when the two teenages find out Marie is pregnant, things get a little dicey. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and as a grown up Paul waits to meet his children for the first time it’s time for some serious thinking.

Sunbeam Terrace

Mark Catley

You’re an agoraphobic drug dealer who suffers panic attacks. Not good for business. Enter a teenage boy with a dangerous ambition, a lapdancer who’ll do anything for a hit and a hard man on a mission. Could the day get any darker on Sunbeam Terrace? Mark Catley was born in Leeds and grew up within sight of Beeston's Sunbeam Terrace. He was the first writer commissioned by the Playhouse as part of the BBC's New Writing scheme, Northern Exposure. Sunbeam Terrace was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in Spring 2003