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Tessa Hart

TESSA HART

  (1987 - )
Nationality:    German
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Literary Agent:    Trixter Agency

Tessa Hart is a London-based artistic director, actress, director, producer, writer and activist. She is a co-founder and current Artistic Director of The Bread & Roses Theatre in Clapham (South London, UK), a new and innovative fringe pub theatre, as well as the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Goblin Baby Theatre Co., an activist theatre company set out to challenge the confines of conventional theatre. Tessa holds an MFA in Acting (International) from East 15 Acting School (2011) and a BA in Theatre Studies from the Free University of Berlin (2009). She has completed further performing arts work and training in Bali, London, Berlin, Brussels and Moscow.

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

         (S)Elfish Christmas         Appointment, The         Being John Barrowman         Cassie Knows Best         CinderElla - And Her Smelly Old Slipper         Hail Your Majesty         Miss Julie         Proposal, The         tu: point faiv

(S)Elfish Christmas

Synopsis:
The Chief Elf accuses Elfidanina of stealing all of this year's Christmas presents; now Elfidanina must call for the help of her best friend Elfidanini and a mysterious Fairy to find the presents and save Christmas!

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Goblin Baby Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, Children's Theatre 45 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 (either male or female)

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Appointment, The

Synopsis:
The Legend of the Female Species. And its mysterious swelling bellies.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Goblin Baby Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy 10-15 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Being John Barrowman

Synopsis:
Christmas Eve. On top of a skyscraper. Sky is right at the edge. Sky is also convinced of being John Barrowman.

Notes:
a new play currently in development. Note the [rehearsed reading] Bread & Roses Theatre, 68 Clapham Manor Street, Clapham SW4 6DZ, London >>> on 07 Dec 2014 was cancelled

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Goblin Baby Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
ten min dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 any gender

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Cassie Knows Best

Synopsis:
A monologue projecting the character Cassandra from the Greek Tragedy to the 21st Century.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Corbett Theatre, Essex, UK     01 May 2010

Organisations:
International Voices / East 15

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama 10 - 15 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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CinderElla - And Her Smelly Old Slipper

Synopsis:
An exciting and modern retelling of the classic fairytale in which a girl's ultimate dream doesn't necessarily need to be to marry some Prince. . . - Ella is devastated when shortly after her mother's death her Papa remarries and before long passes away himself. She doesn't get along at all with her Step-Mama and stepsister Elizabeth-Victoria (Evi). With only her Fairy to confide in, Ella dreams of flying far, far away. When one day the average looking, twice divorced Prince Prince announces a ball to find his third wife, things get really out of a hand!

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Goblin Baby Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, Children's Theatre 45 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hail Your Majesty

Synopsis:
A real-life Princess. In the 21st Century. Born into one of the richest Royal Families in the World. She has it 'all'. . . Except her own voice.

Notes:
part of the Princess monologues

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Goblin Baby Theatre Co.,

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
ten min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Miss Julie

Synopsis:
A striking, sensual and timeless adaptation of Strindberg's masterpiece. - Young socialite Miss Julie struggles to find her place and sense of purpose in life. After breaking up with her latest fiance, she amuses herself by attending the servants' ball on Midsummer's Eve and takes a particular liking to handsome butler John, himself engaged to the cook Christine. They soon get into a series of dangerous mind games as things quickly spiral out of control. Originally written in 1888, the play caused a scandal when first produced and has been hugely popular ever since. This sensual adaptation emphasises Strindberg's viscerally honest portrait of the class system and human sexuality. Amidst the midsummer frolics, the boundaries of status start to blur and the battle of the sexes intensifies. Who truly has the upper hand and how far will people go in the ultimate power struggle?

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bread & Roses Theatre Company (BRTC)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation 80 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Proposal, The

Synopsis:
Well, in Russia 2114 Ivana has come to propose marriage to Stepan's daughter Natalya. However, she only gets into a succession of pointless arguments with Natalya, involving boundary disputes and dogs. Stepan's contributions to the flow of events are no help to the situation either; nor is Ivana's hypochondria. . . But at least all of this is happening in Russia; a beacon of equality; where a woman is proposing to another woman! - In response to the legislations allowing same-sex marriage in the UK and alongside the widely discussed discrimination of LGBT people in Russia, Goblin Baby Theatre Co. gave Anton Chekhov's one-act-classic 'the Proposal' a new twist by turning it into a futuristic farce about marriage equality.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. Adapted by Tessa Hart, further adapted by the company

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Goblin Baby Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Farce 25-30 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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tu: point faiv

Synopsis:
According to U.N. estimates, approximately 2.5 million people are being trafficked around the world at any given time. 80% of them are women and children. Approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation. It is estimated that there are 20 to 30 million slaves around the world. tu: point faiv tells the story of one woman's journey through the net of human trafficking in the UK, the people she encounters along the way, and the ones she doesn't.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Goblin Baby Theatre Co as part of One Billion Rising Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
play 75 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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