Fields of Gold

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Milk quotas, crop circles, a son who speaks to aliens and a daughter who wants to transform his farm into an organic nightmare of hippy proportions are more than farmer Ben Handley can bear. His mum is sleeping in a JCB bucket and his wife, Mags, is desperately trying to hold family and farm together. But disease is at the doorstep and something has to give...

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Alex Jones writes for theatre, radio and film. Credits include the internationally acclaimed play Noise for Soho Theatre Company, also produced in LA, Chicago, Portugal and Italy. Other work includes Phil & Jill & Jill & Phil for Coventry Belgrade and companies in Chile and Italy, A Miracle in No Mans Land for BBC, Fields of Gold and Rivers Up for Alan Ayckbourns Stephen Joseph Theatre, BBCand Teatro Cometo in Rome, Mr And Mrs Schultz for The Watermill Theatre, Canned Peaches in Syrup for Pasadena Playhouse, L.A. Films include: Greasy, Faster, Harder, Longer, Whistle! And Rhubarb And Roses (short-listed for a BAFTA nomination). Various projects are currently in development, including the film versions of Noise and Canned Peaches In Syrup.