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Simon Mendes da Costa

SIMON MENDES DA COSTA

  
Nationality:    British
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Simon Mendes da Costa's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Simon Mendes da Costa's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Better Woman, A         Laskarina Bubulina         Losing Louis         Table for One

Better Woman, A

Synopsis:
It's never too late to make the wrong choice. Tom is searching for the one. In fact, now in his forties, he's been searching for the one for quite a long time. After a few romantic near misses, he turns to the world of online dating to find someone to grow old with. With the help of his despairing neighbours he embarks upon a series of eventful dates with a series of very different women in search of the perfect companion. But is he even sure what he is looking for?

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1st Produced:
Canterbury: Marlowe Studio     01 Dec 2015

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Laskarina Bubulina

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Hampstead Theatre, London     24 Jun 2004

Organisations:
Younger Heat and Light Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Losing Louis

Losing Louis
What he does, ingeniously, is interweave past and present in a middle-class bedroom. In the late 1950s we see Louis, an adulterous solicitor, enjoying sex with a female pupil: what he doesn't know until too late is that his son, Tony, is privy to their lovemaking. And in the present we see the family truculently gathering for Louis's funeral. With Tony now a disgruntled middle-aged man hitched to a hideous vulgarian and bitterly resentful of his younger brother, the bedroom is transformed from a passion-pit into a place where past secrets and guilts are indecently exposed. - Billington, Guardian

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1st Produced:
Hampstead Theatre, London >>>     20 Jan 2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-0413775122

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Table for One

Synopsis:
David is a young restaurant reviewer who has been seated in Siberia' - at the back of the restaurant, by the toilets, one of which is blocked! At the front of the restaurant a birthday and wedding anniversary are being celebrated. This is a modern farce in which the past and present meet in a series of increasingly Dramatic revelations. . .

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1st Produced:
Hen and Chickens, London >>>     06 Nov 2001

Organisations:
Grovegate Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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