- 'Property of Iron'
''Property of Iron' is the working tile for a musical work started by Martin Day in the late 1990s. At present the work is 'on hold' until a time when Martin finds an appropriate composer to partner in the project with him. The current status is that a basic plot has been constructed, some of the songs have been written lyrically and there are already some 'notepad' melodies. The lead characters are part formed but some other characters need to be developed to make for a full-cast musical.
Background
After working hard on the implementation of a purchasing system Sam Ferrara finds that his job as a buyer is no longer needed. He has unwittingly been the architect of his own demise. He has some redundancy pay but he is tired and disillusioned of the corporate world. He wants to take a break but he doesn't want to fritter away his windfall. If he was to rent his house out he could live modestly from the income, but then where would he live himself?...
Sam finds an unconventional way of getting what he wants. His solution leads him into new relationships and rather than simplifying, his life become unmanageable and he finds he has just swapped one kind of pressure for another.
