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Tamsin Oglesby

TAMSIN OGLESBY

  (1965 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  represented by Charlotte Knight

Tamsin Oglesby is currently under commission to the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Hampstead Theatre. Her plays for Oberon include My Best Friend, the War Next Door and Really Old, Like Forty-Five.

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

         Ephebiphobia         Every Last Trick         Future Conditional         Mouse and His Child, The         My Best Friend         Olive         Only the Lonely         Really Old, Like Forty Five         Two Lips Indifferent Red         US And THEM         War Next Door, The

Ephebiphobia

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1st Produced:
Landestheater Linz, Austria    Oct 2012

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Every Last Trick

Every Last Trick
My dear fellow. Dreadfully sorry. Ill be marrying your wife.. A charming politician and his glamorous new wife evoke a picture of marital bliss. Her first husband was a liar and a cheat. Her second is a different batch of chromosomes altogether. Not only is he chairman of the Feminist Forum but he clearly adores her. He says so, repeatedly, usually on Thursday nights when he goes out to stretch his legs. Her suspicions are obviously hormonal. But when he resorts to illusion to maintain the delusion, well, theres a lot of confusion. If experience has taught her anything its the need to fight fire with fire, lies with more lies and every last trick with pure magic. . .

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Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau (Le Systeme Ribadier). Adapted by Tamsin Oglesby

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Told By An Idiot and Spymonkey

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783191338

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Future Conditional

Future Conditional
Future Conditional tackles the nightmare of British schooling through a myriad of characters including parents, teachers, and Alia, a prodigiously clever fourteen-year-old Afghan refugee and the newest member of Britains Education Research Board. Alia has a radical solution for Britains schools that could restore our place in the world education league. But is the system ready to take lessons from a schoolgirl. . .?

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-1783199198

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Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  15            Other:  musicians

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Mouse and His Child, The

Mouse and His Child, The
Acclaimed as one of the classics of 20th century children's literature, the Mouse and His Child is a moving story about two clockwork mice thrown on a scrap heap who then have to begin a dangerous quest for a place to belong. It is adapted for the stage by Tamsin Oglesby and will be directed by Paul Hunter, Told By An Idiot's Co-Artistic Director. the Mouse and His Child continues the Royal Shakespeare Company's long tradition of creating new stage adaptations of much-loved childhood tales including Beauty and the Beast, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Heart of Robin Hood, and Matilda the Musical, the RSC's award-winning Roald Dahl adaptation

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adaptation of Russell Hoban's classic children's story, 1967. Russell Hoban was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction and poetry. However he is perhaps best known for his children's tale the Mouse and His Child, which was made into an animated film in 1977.

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849434652

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  11            Female:  7            Other:  with doubling and extras

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My Best Friend

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 school days past. As the evening wears on, the three women joke and fight with one another just like the old times. 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.

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subsequently seen At Birmingham Rep

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430609

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Olive

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A curious, dark and highly stylised comedy about youth, religion, loss an the happenings inside little Olive's head. Olive is a teenage girl, who is 'reclaimed' by her real father. But as they begin to live together again, personal and religious differences build to an intolerable level, her Father cuts off her fingers, and Olive flees into the world. She meets Oliver, a young man who has similar issues with his monstrous mother, and as the two lovers plan their wedding, she too hatches a scheme to do away with Olive; but, in a bizarre and mysterious way, she is saved, her hands are healed and she, Oliver and their new baby are reunited.

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International Connections

1st Published:
International Connections: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, London, 2002   -

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Only the Lonely

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When 12-year-old Joe's mate Billy goes missing, the whole community begins to eye each other with deep suspicion.  Abandoned by his dad and ignored by his mum, it's little wonder that Joe turns to the next-door-neighbour Bill 'the dog man'.   But when the police begin a murder investigation and everyone's life comes under scrutiny, Joe must choose where his real loyalties lie.

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Faber and Faber, London, 2005   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  voice

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Really Old, Like Forty Five

Really 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.

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1840029826

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Two Lips Indifferent Red

Synopsis:
Tamsin Oglesby's first play explores the world of cosmetic surgery, from the misogynistic surgeon himself to his wife who, in her forties and studying law, wants "to be sexy not interesting" and their daughter who gives up her lucrative modelling job to learn photography. A very funny play, warm and brittle by turns with an immensely moving resolution between warring mother and daughter and the end.

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1st Produced:
Bush Theatre, London >>>    08 Sep 1995

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in "Bush Theatre Plays" Faber, London, 1996   -

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US And THEM

Synopsis:
the buffer zone between trust and suspicion proves fertile ground for this witty dissection of a special relationship. A chance meeting in a Manhattan restaurant for English couple Martin and Charlotte with affluent New Yorkers Ed and Lori carries the promise of a close friendship. But are they in fact speaking the same language? A transAtlantic comedy of manners in which old Europe and the New World struggle to understand each other.

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Faber and Faber, London, 2003   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  1m doubling

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War Next Door, The

War Next Door, The
Sophie and Max are a thoroughly modern couple, cosmopolitan and open-minded. they have even constructed their own eco loo, well, it does save 30 litres of water a day. Max is a lawyer, albeit a lawyer who grows his own dope. then there's Hana and Ali next door - neighbours, but in every other sense, a world apart. Hana is pregnant, but black eyes are not normally a symptom of pregnancy. What a man does on his own patch is his business - but when war starts raging next door, whose business is that?

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007   978-1840027297

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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