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TESS BERRY-HART (1975 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Conville & Walsh Ltd |
Writer-in-Residence, Blue Elephant Theatre, London
Plays by Tess Berry-Hart
Circus Ain't In Town (Jack), The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Under The Skin writing festival | |||||
| 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 | #40599 | |||
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Genre: | Play (magic realism) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Drinking From A Dirty Glass | ||
| 1st Produced: | read at Royal Court and BET theatres | 2001 | ||||
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 | #40220 | |||
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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. | |||||
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Legoland | ||
| 1st Produced: | European Interplay playwrights' festival in Poland | 2000 | ||||
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 | #40219 | |||
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Genre: | Play (social/magic realism) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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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. | |||||
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Someone to Blame | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 06 Mar 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 | #134268 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In 2004, at the age of 17, Sam Hallam was tried and convicted of murder in a London street fight. But he maintains that he wasn't even there. With little education and no funds, Sam was at the mercy of the justice system and two eye-witnesses, one of whom retracted his accusation in court, and another who admitted in court that when she accused Sam, she had been looking for someone to blame. He has so far spent the last 7 years in prison. The campaign for his release has taken his case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and an independent police enquiry, whose findings have been so significant that the case has now been referred back to the Court of Appeal. The campaign is being led by Paul May, who was responsible for leading the campaigns of the Birmingham Six, the Bridgewater Four, Judith Ward, Danny McNamee and many other miscarriages of justice. To highlight Sam's case at this critical time, The King s Head Theatre, director David Mercatali and writer Tess Berry-Hart have produced a verbatim piece of theatre using police interviews, court transcripts and independent interviews. Every word of SOMEONE TO BLAME has been taken verbatim from written sources or interviews. Miscarriages of justice are no longer make today s headlines, but they can still happen. This is Sam's story. | |||||
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Waking Up Suddenly | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Blue Elephant Theatre Press, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3146 | |||
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Genre: | Play (social realism) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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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. | |||||
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