"Long suffering Paula is rapidly running out of patience with her nice but predictable and boring husband - so how will she react when he unexpectedly steps out of his comfort zone and buys her the most unusual birthday present ever?" 

ALTERNATE REALITY (10-minute Version) (2022) is a sci-fi comedy with 2 characters (1F, 1M or 2F). 

The play was short-listed for the prestigious Short+Sweet play writing festivals in Sydney and Dubai before being selected for production at the Short+Sweet Hollywood festival in 2024. The initial Hollywood performances took place at the Victory Theater, Burbank, LA on 24 and 25 May 2024. It was performed there again on 7 June as one of the selected semi-finalists. Sadly, Jonathan's play just failed to make the finals but getting to the semi-finals of "the biggest short play festival in the world" out of over 1,400 submissions was a fantastic achievement. 

To view a YouTube recording of one of the Short+Sweet Hollywood 2024 performances of ALTERNATE REALITY at the Victory Theater in LA please click here (please note that the recording contains some swearing).

Following on from the LA production, the play was declared joint-winner of the Theatre Royal's 2025 UNWRITTEN SHOWCASE in Winchester. As a result of this win, the Theatre Royal invited Jonathan to extend ALTERNATE REALITY into a 50-minute play for performance in a double-bill with the other winning play. The extended versions of both plays were performed on the main stage of the Theatre Royal on 29 August 2025. 

Jonathan subsequently re-wrote the 50-minute version of  ALTERNATE REALITY. In June 2026 the re-written version made it through to the second round of the 2026 BBC Open Plan Scripted Development Programme for which the BBC received 5,727 submissions. Only 12.6% of these made it through to Round 2!

The 10-minute version of the ALTERNATE REALITY script can be read and purchased here.