Plays
by Hester Tingey
The Hedge (2014)
The Hedge is about the barriers we put up around us and how they mirror our mental limitations and highlight our territorial natures.
What happens when the object of our obsessions takes centre-stage….literally? And what results when we can no longer see further than the end of our own hedge?
Watch as Mr and Mrs G and Mr and Mrs M spectacularly lose the plot amidst the collision of their world views.
How much will it take to push one or both couples over the 'edge?
Pearly (2017)
Pearly is the story of a flute, seen through the eyes and imagination of ten-year-old Georgie, who can glimpse the souls of musical instruments.
All Pearly wants is to be played, and to discover the wide and wonderful world of music. But being an object, being used by people, is never easy. Will she be loved by her owner, and enjoy magical adventures in a marching band? Or will she end up in the dreaded Artist’s Cave, melted into a mere ornament, condemned to a life of silence?
Can Pearly and her friends conjure up their beloved music to avoid the melting pot? And can Georgie finally help Pearly to live the life she has always wanted to live?
The Writer, The Director and The Actress (2018)
A Writer, frustrated when her housemates (an Actress and a Director) refuse to help her, decides to make a living play. Every selfish throwaway comment they make is transformed into art before their very eyes.
Things start to get complicated when the Actress and the Director take over the keyboard. Are they controlling the material or is the material controlling them? Sparks fly as these three theatricals fight over their roles, as the boundaries of performance and reality become ever more blurred.
