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Jeffrey Beatty

JEFFREY BEATTY  

 Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Jeffrey Beatty's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Convictions         Scam

Convictions

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Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    1990

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Scam

Synopsis:
In the 1920s and '30s, Oscar Hartzell conned 70,000 Americans into investing in shares in the multi-billion dollar inheritance of Sir Francis Drake. Hartzell's scheme ran successfully for 12 years, and in 'Scam' we see its debilitating effect on one family of farmers in one Iowa county. It's an old-fashioned play, sporting dialogue hewn from the same timber as Michael Folkard's farmhouse set, but it riffs effectively on the theme of fantasy, and demonstrates how desperate folks - this was the Depression era - will believe in the unlikeliest salvation. Thomas is waiting for Oscar's promised fortune to save his ailing farm. His son has fled in despair at dad's faith in this chimera. His neurotic sister.in-law is equally in Oscar's thrall and, in one of the play's Dramatic peaks, her preacher husband extorts from his congregation contributions to the fantasy fund. events demonstrate how a community's faith in this imaginary panacea erodes the only links - the human ones - that might sustain it through straitened times. To develop his theme, Beatty shows that the play's only sceptic, Thomas's wife eve is beholden to her own dreams: both the investigator Wedge and her own daughter, who dances in Chicago for a living, rep. resent the (apparently) sophisticated world on which she feels she's missed out.
Brian Logan, Time Out

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Head to Toe productions

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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