FOR a few years Fauzia Rahman's play sat in a draw untouched. But The Philosopher's Tale is now getting the recognition it deserves and will be performed at The Camden Fringe festival next month.

Fauzia, from Wooburn Common, got a taste for creative writing when she signed up for classes in Gerrards Cross.

She started her career in medicine but left to help her husband, Stuart, set up a business.

Fauzia, 50, said: "I started off by going to Gerrards Cross library one day. I saw this sign, 'Are you interested in creative writing?'

"I thought, 'I am', so I went along to some workshops with a lovely lady called Alexia Casale, who is now a published author.

"There were about six of us who got to the end of it and thought we don't want this to stop, so we kept meeting regularly."

She has had a few poems published with Metroland Poets, who read at Wooburn Arts Festival and Wycombe Arts Festival, and has also worked with Jan Moran Neil, who also teaches creative writing in the area.

As well as this Fauzia has written a few plays before but never had them performed. The Philosopher's Tale was inspired by the classes she had taken in philosophy.

She became so interested she even took a masters. She is part of a philosophy group called Ray's Academy which meets on Wednesdays at 2pm in Gerrards Cross Memorial Centre. The next term starts on October 2 and they will be discussing, 'Philosophy of Biology.' All are welcome to attend this relaxed informal group.

She said about the play: "It is about the concept of truth and deception and I was trying to think how does that idea work?"

Fauzia then took it to the Player-Playwrights association, who are a group of artists and writers who meet for professional readings of a new work to an informed audience.

She said: "The amazing thing was it was a knock out. They said we don't want this to end here and asked if they could submit this to Camden Festival, and they will give it their endorsement."

And the Camden Festival said yes. It is going to be performed at Tristan Bates Theatre in The Actors Centre in Covent Garden. It is about a professor of moral philosophy called Gerald Angel who goes to a successful weekend conference.

Then he wakes up in his hotel bedroom and finds a naked blonde woman next to him. How did she get there and why? And how is he going to tell his wife?

It is a fast-paced hour of deception, dissembling and mistaken identities in an entertaining examination of moral philosophy, all wrapped up in a farce. There are five actors in it.

Fauzia, who has three rabbits, has been going along to rehearsals. She said: "They are very good. They ask me for my input."

The Philosopher's Tale is at The Tristan Bates Theatres in Covent Garden from August 6 to 10 at 5.30pm. Tickets are £10 (£6 concesssions) from 0207 2406283 or go to www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk

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