Tamsin Oglesby
Список книг автора Tamsin OglesbyReally Old, Like Forty Five
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.
Future Conditional
Future Conditional tackles the conundrum of British schooling through a myriad of characters including parents, teachers and Alia, a prodigiously bright young Pakistani refugee and the newest member of the Education Commission. There are big questions to answer: how do we make the system fair? Do we even want to try? And is anyone ready to take lessons from a schoolgirl…?
Every Last Trick
TOM: As Shakespeare said, and I agree with him: ‘Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.’ ANGELA: I don’t think he meant ignore the fact that your lover got married. A charming diplomat and his glamorous new wife ought to be happy. Angela’s first husband was a liar and a cheat; her second husband, on the other hand, clearly adores her. He says so, repeatedly, especially on Thursday evenings when he goes out to visit one of his clubs. The suspicions she begins to harbour are obviously based on her unfortunate first marriage, poor thing. But as her apparent neurosis takes hold, Juan resorts to illusion to maintain the delusion which results in a lot of confusion. If experience has taught Angela anything it’s the need to fight fire with fire, lies with more lies, and every last trick with pure magic…
The War Next Door
Sophie and Max are a thoroughly modern British couple, cosmopolitan, open-minded. They've even constructed their own eco loo (well, it does save thirty litres of water a day). Then there's Hana and Ali next door. Neighbours, but in every other sense, a world apart. Max is a lawyer, albeit a lawyer who grows his own dope. Okay, what a man does on his own patch is his business – but when war starts raging next door, whose business is that? If ever there was a time for liberal intervention, this is surely it. Tamsin Oglesby's black comedy takes a humorous and subversive look at the world we live in today – one of multi-culturalism and blurred boundaries. And one in which violence is right on our own doorstep – no matter where we come from. The War Next Door opened at the Tricycle Theatre in February 2007.
My Best Friend
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 schooldays’ past. As the evening wears on, the three women joke and fi ght with one another just like the old days. 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.
