TAMSIN OGLESBY (1965 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Tamsin Oglesby
My Best Friend |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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| 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/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: subsequently seen at Birmingham Rep | ||||
Synopsis: Bee and Em have been best friends for thirty years: theyre on holiday in rural France, away from the demands of work and family. But just as theyre 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. | ||||
Olive |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | International Connections: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber | 2002 | ||
| 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: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
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Only The Lonely |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, london | 2005 | ||
| 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/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | voice | |||
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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. | ||||
Two Lips Indifferent Red |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Bush Theatre Plays" Faber, London | 1996 | ||
| 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/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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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. | ||||
US And Them |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, london | 2003 | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1m doubling | |||
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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. | ||||
War Next Door, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2007 | |||
| 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/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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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? | ||||