ANOTHER CHANCE TO SEE ACCLAIMED PLAY OF LOVE
AND ACCEPTANCE, TUESDAYS AT TESCO’S
Following a popular performance at Oldham Coliseum Theatre’s First Break Festival of new writing
and emerging talent in May 2016, Tangled Web and People Staring return to the Coliseum’s
Studio Theatre with another chance to see Tuesdays at Tesco’s.
Pauline used to be Paul and as far as her father is concerned she still is. Despite her father’s
inability to accept her as a woman, Pauline visits him every Tuesday to help him out with his
laundry and his shopping, wanting quite simply to be his daughter. Join her on her weekly visits,
come hell or high water, flouting the barbed comments, the battles and the stares.
Originally written by French playwright Emmanuel Darley and translated into English by Matthew
Hurt and Sarah Vermande, Tuesdays at Tesco’s is a one-man show sensitively performed by
Scott Kentell. The play is about more than just transgender issues, it’s about love and its
challenges, identity, and society’s need for men to look like men and women to look like women.
Above all, it’s about acceptance.
Director Sue Womersley commented: “We decided to concentrate on the relationship of father
and daughter; two people who love each other, need each other’s acceptance and yet struggle to
give it. The subtle comedy comes out of the tragedy of their inability to accept each other for the
way they are… We all need to be who we really are and yet how many times do we find it hard to
accept a loved one’s behaviour or decisions, even though they are incredibly important to us?”
Tuesdays at Tesco’s was first performed at 3MT (3-Minute Theatre) in Manchester in 2014,
followed by performances at Taurus on Manchester’s Canal Street later that year, where it was
selected by the Re:Play panel for inclusion in the 2015 Re:Play Festival at HOME, Manchester.
“Tuesday at Tesco’s was the highlight of this year’s Re:play Festival. Performed with wonderful
restraint and sensitivity by Scott Kentell, its story of how transgender Pauline copes with the daily
small battles to hold on to her sense of self was both funny and infinitely touching.” - Chris Honer,
former Artistic Director of Library Theatre Company, Manchester.
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Tuesdays at Tesco’s is on at Oldham Coliseum Theatre Studio from Thursday 28 – Saturday 30
July.
Tickets are £6
Tickets can be booked on 0161 624 2829 or at www.coliseum.org.uk
Link to event on website: http://www.coliseum.org.uk/plays/tuesdays-at-tescos-2/
For further press information, please contact Shelly Ramsdale on 0161 785 7012 or
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