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Simon Mendes da Costa

SIMON MENDES DA COSTA  

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

 Laskarina Bubulina         Losing Louis         Table for One

Laskarina Bubulina

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Hampstead Theatre, London    24 Jun 2004

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Losing Louis

Simon Mendes da Costa
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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Methuen Drama    978-0413775122

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Table for One

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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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