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Beata Beatrix

Short Play, Drama  /  4w, 3m

Gillian Plowman

Touring an art gallery, Beatrice notices a lone man, Jon, crying before a painting created out of remorse for a tragedy in the artist's life. Intrigued, Beatrice offers help.

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes

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Summary

Touring an art gallery, Beatrice notices a lone man, Jon, crying before a painting created out of remorse for a tragedy in the artist's life. Intrigued, Beatrice offers help, and it transpires that for Jon, whose wife had died of leukemia while he was with another woman, the painting tells his own story. Beatrice, also, has her own haunting secret...

M3 (any age, middle age). F4 (any age, young)

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    An art gallery

  • Duration 30 minutes

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Gillian Plowman

Gillian Plowman
Gillian won the Verity Bargate award in 1988 with Me and My Friend, a poignantly funny play about the release of four patients from a psychiatric hospital into the community. It was first produced at the Soho Poly Theatre in 1990 and at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1992 ...
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