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Catch six new short plays, including my own Inside My Head. The Platform is produced by the Bread & Roses Theatre Company, based in Clapham, South London.

Inside My Head is directed by Dominic Danson, and features a tense stand-off in the consultation room. Can a troubled man find the help he needs without resorting to violence? And why does he need a gun to make his point?

• Suzanne Goldberg as the Therapist
• Michael Amariah as the Patient

The Platform also features great new plays by Claire Booker, Mike Carter, Tilly Lunken, Nida Manzoor and Kay Poiro. Here’s the full programme and a flyer.

You can see all six plays on Friday 22 February (7.30pm) and Saturday 23 February (2.30pm and 7.30pm). Tickets are just £8 for all shows and are available here.

The last Platform in November sold out quickly so I recommend buying your ticket soon!

My writing high point of the year was 14 May, our Saturday performance of The Inside Man / The Interview at the Brighton Fringe. A full house (despite the competing lure of the FA Cup Final), the cast at full throttle and a warmly responsive audience – well, it was everything I’d hoped for.

Our whole run at the Fringe was fantastically rewarding, and it was great to feel part of such a buzzing festival with so many inventive events going on all over Brighton. Creativity thrives on others creativity, and the Fringe spirit helps you turn your ideas into reality in no time at all.

The same spirit lies behind Shoreham WordFest. Though currently at a much smaller stage of development, I was impressed by how much our group managed to achieve for the inaugural festival in September. With barely any funding we managed to attract a big enough audience to prove the value of holding a larger-scale WordFest in 2012.

One final highlight was the news that I had made the final nine of the Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing for Inside My Head. Following a successful reading at Sussex Playwrights’ Club I’m now deciding what to do next with this short play.

And so into 2012, with the usual mix of apprehension and anticipation. Good luck with all your plans and hopes for the year ahead.