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TAMSIN OGLESBY (1965 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Knight Hall Agency Ltd represented by Charlotte Knight |
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Plays by Tamsin Oglesby |
Mouse and His Child, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Nov 2012 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135843 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adaptation of Russell Hoban's classic children's story | |||||
Synopsis: | Acclaimed as one of the classics of 20th century children's literature, The Mouse and His Child is a moving story about two clockwork mice thrown on a scrap heap who then have to begin a dangerous quest for a place to belong | |||||
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My Best Friend | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Jan 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430609 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26241 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | subsequently seen at Birmingham Rep | |||||
| Bee and Em have been best friends for thirty years: they're on holiday in rural France, away from the demands of work and family. But just as they're setting the clocks forward, in steps Chris, a blast from their school days past. As the evening wears on, the three women joke and fight with one another just like the old times. But time plays tricks with memory and some wounds are just too deep to heal. This provocative and hilarious play takes a scalpel to childhood friendships and asks whether we ever get over them. | |||||
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Olive | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Mar 2002 | |||||
Company: | International Connections | |||||
| 1st Published: | International Connections: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26242 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A curious, dark and highly stylised comedy about youth, religion, loss an the happenings inside little Olive's head. Olive is a teenage girl, who is 'reclaimed' by her real father. But as they begin to live together again, personal and religious differences build to an intolerable level, her father cuts off her fingers, and Olive flees into the world. She meets Oliver, a young man who has similar issues with his monstrous mother, and as the two lovers plan their wedding, she too hatches a scheme to do away with Olive; but, in a bizarre and mysterious way, she is saved, her hands are healed and she, Oliver and their new baby are reunited. | |||||
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Only The Lonely | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Nov 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45473 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | voice | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When 12-year-old Joe's mate Billy goes missing, the whole community begins to eye each other with deep suspicion. Abandoned by his dad and ignored by his mum, it's little wonder that Joe turns to the next-door-neighbour Bill 'the dog man'. But when the police begin a murder investigation and everyone's life comes under scrutiny, Joe must choose where his real loyalties lie. | |||||
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Really Old, Like Forty Five | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 Feb 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029826 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45186 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| There are just too many old people. As a government research body seeks to deal with the problems of a maturing population, a family addresses its own. Lyn's memory starts to go, Alice takes a fall and even Robbie has to face the signs of ageing. Relations are put to the test across three generations. As are those who enter the increasingly sinister world of State Care. Tamsin Oglesby's furious comedy confronts head-on our embarrassment and fear about old age. It exposes a society in which compassion vies with pragmatism and, by asking unequivocal questions, it comes up with some extraordinary answers. | |||||
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Two Lips Indifferent Red | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Bush Theatre Plays" Faber, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26243 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Tamsin Oglesby's first play explores the world of cosmetic surgery, from the misogynistic surgeon himself to his wife who, in her forties and studying law, wants "to be sexy not interesting" and their daughter who gives up her lucrative modelling job to learn photography. A very funny play, warm and brittle by turns with an immensely moving resolution between warring mother and daughter and the end. | |||||
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US And THEM | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 May 2003 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26244 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1m doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The buffer zone between trust and suspicion proves fertile ground for this witty dissection of a special relationship. A chance meeting in a Manhattan restaurant for English couple Martin and Charlotte with affluent New Yorkers Ed and Lori carries the promise of a close friendship. But are they in fact speaking the same language? A transatlantic comedy of manners in which old Europe and the New World struggle to understand each other. | |||||
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War Next Door, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58961 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sophie and Max are a thoroughly modern couple, cosmopolitan and open-minded. They have even constructed their own eco loo, well, it does save 30 litres of water a day. Max is a lawyer, albeit a lawyer who grows his own dope. Then there's Hana and Ali next door - neighbours, but in every other sense, a world apart. Hana is pregnant, but black eyes are not normally a symptom of pregnancy. What a man does on his own patch is his business - but when war starts raging next door, whose business is that? | |||||
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