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Time and Tide

  • James McDermott
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy, Contemporary
  • ISBN: 9780573031090

"Norfolk's bootiful. Miles of coastline, endless sea, endless sky. So much space to dream big dreams. But... yeah: there's nowhere round here to make those dreams come true."

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
May runs a crumbling caff on the end of Cromer Pier. Her delivery man Ken is losing customers to Costa. Her head waiter Nemo is desperate to leave Norfolk and tread the boards in London. Nemo's unrequited love Daz is burying his head in the sand over his best mate leaving.

Time and Tide is an LGBTQ themed comedy drama about a Norfolk community struggling with change. 

The play was long-listed for The Bruntwood, Papatango and Verity Bargate Playwriting Prizes and was developed on Park Theatre's Script Accelerator Programme 2018 before having its world premiere at Park Theatre in February 2020.
REVIEWS:

"Bittersweet, intergenerational coming-of-age play..."

 The Stage

"Time and Tide explores the conflict between staying with the familiar and taking the leap to face the unknown."

 The Upcoming

"...it is equal measures laugh-out-loud, heartrending and nostalgic."

 The Upcoming

Premiere Production: The world premiere of Time and Tide took place at Park Theatre, London on 5th February 2020.

Characters

  • Casting:

  • MAY – female, fifties, slight Norfolk accent, runs a caff on Cromer Pier, cuddly, feisty, maternal
    KEN – male, fifties, thick Norfolk accent, bread man, talker, awkward, avuncular
    NEMO – male, eighteen, waiter but aspiring actor, clumsy, witty, book smart
    DAZ – male, eighteen, black, waiter but aspiring handyman, cheeky, cocky, chatty

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    May runs a crumbling caff on the end of Cromer Pier. Her delivery man Ken is losing customers to Costa. Her head waiter Nemo is desperate to leave Norfolk and tread the boards in London. Nemo's unrequited love Daz is burying his head in the sand over his best mate leaving.

    Time and Tide is an LGBTQ themed comedy drama about a Norfolk community struggling with change. 

    The play was long-listed for The Bruntwood, Papatango and Verity Bargate Playwriting Prizes and was developed on Park Theatre's Script Accelerator Programme 2018 before having its world premiere at Park Theatre in February 2020.

    		$24.95

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