Play & Films

Dramatic works exploring coherence, collapse, power, and human signal integrity

This section houses dramatic works derived from The Spiral Manuscripts universe — written for stage, screen, and future-proof audiovisual formats. These are not only adaptations of the books. They are parallel signal carriers: built to reach audiences who will never read theory, but can feel structure when it is dramatised.

What Lives Here

Stage Plays
Intimate, dialogue-driven works designed for small casts, minimal sets, and high cognitive tension. Recurring themes include:

  • Trust under systemic collapse
  • Power without hierarchy
  • Love without ownership
  • Institutions as nervous systems
  • The cost of coherence in an incoherent world

These plays are written to be cheap to stage and hard to forget.

Films & Screen Concepts
Original screenplays and film treatments set in near-future or quietly collapsing present-day worlds. No spectacle for spectacle’s sake. The drama comes from:

  • Ethical pressure
  • Signal mismatch
  • Invisible constraints
  • Characters refusing assigned roles

Think psychological realism with civilisational consequences.

Why This Exists

Most civilisational ideas fail because they remain intellectual. Plays and films bypass resistance. They:

  • Reach the nervous system directly
  • Encode complexity without exposition
  • Make abstract failures emotionally legible
  • Travel faster than books

This section exists to translate coherence into lived experience.

Current Status

  • Selected plays: in draft
  • Screen projects: concept stage
  • Rights: retained by the author
  • Availability: selectively licensable

Nothing here is open-source. Everything here is intentional.

For Producers, Directors & Theatres

These works are suited to independent theatres, fringe festivals, art-house cinema, public broadcasters, and experimental or hybrid formats.

If you are looking for:

  • Material that does not rely on trend cycles
  • Stories that age forward, not backward

You are in the right place.

Enquiries
Licensing, staging, adaptation, or development conversations can be initiated via the contact page or e-mail us: rebecca@alphabetselect.com.