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Victoria Beesley

VICTORIA BEESLEY

  
Nationality:    British
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Victoria Beesley's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Victoria Beesley's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         30:60:80         Fire Into Song         My Friend Selma

30:60:80

Synopsis:
30:60:80 is a celebration of three lives, spanning fifty years with the women of one family and inviting audiences to consider the richness in their own maternal herstory. When Amy's grandma turned 30, she had three children and was thankful to finally live in a house with an indoor toilet. When Amy's mum turned 30, she had a profession, a mortgage and was pregnant with her first child. Amy just turned 30. She's single, chancing it, and certain about exactly nothing. 30:60:80 is an invitation to three landmark birthdays to meet three remarkable birthday girls

Notes:
devised by Amy Conway and Victoria Beesley

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Amy Conway in Association with Platform

1st Published:
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Music:
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Fire Into Song

Synopsis:
Drawing on a wealth of texts, from Ovid and Hesiod to Kafka and Helene Cixous, Fire Into Song shines a new light on the Prometheus myth by asking: can we imagine a female Prometheus? Dance, spoken word and live improvisation combine to create a new and surprising performance each night as the main themes of the myth - the disintegration of the creative body, fire that brings life but also consumes it, and the creative act as one of self-destruction - are reexamined from a feminist perspective.

Notes:
Cara Berger with Victoria Beesley & Vanessa Coffey

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Arches Live!

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Music:
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piece 60 min

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My Friend Selma

Synopsis:
Victoria Beesley shares her own memories of living in an old boarding school in Leeds with fifty refugees and some of the stories of the refugees she lived with. When I was seven years old, my dad set up a charity to help people in danger escape the war in Bosnia. Fifty Bosnians arrived in big coaches. We moved into an old boarding school with these refugees, to help them settle in. We lived there for four months. It was brilliant  there was a playground in my front garden, we had lots of visitors, people were always feeding me and I learnt to ride a bike! But the best thing about living there was meeting my friend Selma.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Terra Incognita

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
work in progress

Parts:
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