TUESDAYS AT TESCO’S

A touching, witty and unsettling one-person play -- imagine Alan Bennett meets Prima Facie in a Yorkshire Tesco's.

Performed by Mariah Louca (The Doctor (Almeida/West End/New York), Best Of Enemies (Young Vic/West End), The Ministry Of Lesbian Affairs (Soho/Kiln).

“I am as I am. Myself me and that’s that.”

Every Tuesday, Jacqueline goes back to her hometown and loyally spends the day with her father, tidies his home, does his ironing. Then they go to Tesco. Every Tuesday. All eyes are on Jacqueline when they go shopping. They know her, you see. Before Jacqueline, her name was something else. A dead name. And to her father she remains that dead name, despite all appearances to the contrary.

Told through the eyes of a woman facing the wind of an ever-growing social and political storm against her kind, Jacqueline must navigate her way through it to reach her father and hold on to the last family she has left. Whatever the cost.

A moving, work-in-progress play about identity, returning home, and the complexity of family and legacy.

Following a run at Sheffield Theatres’ Open Works Festival this autumn these are the premiere performances of this production in London.

Performed by Mariah Louca

Written by Emmanuel Darley

English Text by Matthew Hurt & Sarah Vermande

Directed by Steven Kunis

Sound Design & Composition by Daniel Mawson

Age: 14+

Contains themes of transphobia, transphobic language, strong language and descriptions of violence

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Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England