TESS BERRY-HART (1975 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Tess Berry-Hart
Circus Ain't In Town (Jack), The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | Under The Skin writing festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Play (magic realism) | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Monologue about the fantastical world of an Alzheimer's sufferer. Jack can see monkeys climbing the walls again, but Margery doesn't believe him. Come to that, why can't anyone else see Margery? At least Jack has his dancing shoes to keep him company. | ||||
Drinking From A Dirty Glass |
| 1st Produced: | read at Royal Court and BET theatres | 2001 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Play (social/magic realism) | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Two Western backpackers in Pakistan's North West Frontier see how the other half live. Idealistic Jenny's always wanted to travel, but scatterbrain Elsie's never been further than the outskirts of Burnley before. Working as teachers in dusty Peshawar, their lives are changed irreversibly when they meet Sami and Aysha, young Muslims caught between two cultures. Who is the mysterious figure in black that haunts Elsie's dreams? During the bloody festival of Ashura Muharram, Elsie's nightmares become a reality. | ||||
Legoland |
| 1st Produced: | European Interplay playwrights' festival in Poland | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Play (social/magic realism) | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Reading in Royal Court Theatre (July 2001) and Blue Elephant Theatre (May 2003) | ||||
Synopsis: After the death of her mother, fifteen-year old Jo lives alone in LegoLand, the brightly-coloured mechanically-controlled house designed and painted to accommodate her mother's disability from cancer. Disgusted by the succession of mourners that visit the house concealing sinister agendas of their own behind sympathetic smiles, Jo takes the ultimate step to ensure that she will never be left alone again. | ||||
Waking Up Suddenly |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Blue Elephant Theatre Press | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Play (social realism) | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Family drama going backwards in time. When Brin, a divorced, fortysomething ex-soldier commits suicide, his family - father Don, sister Ann, estranged daughter Ema and nephew Charlie - are unable to articulate either their grief or understand the reason for the tragedy. But, looking back on events, the causes of his death gradually become clearer. | ||||