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From Here to the Library

  • Jimmie Chinn
  • Short Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573120589

Beryl Tidy, whose life is dominated by her elderly, irascible and demanding father, works at the library and finds that it is her only escape. She has a new boss at the library, Mr Gostilow, who has just moved to the North from London. When Beryl storms out of work after an uncharacteristic fit of temper and fails to return, Gostilow visits her to find out why.

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 40 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Elementary School / Primary, High School/Secondary, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
From Here to the Library is one of the first one-act plays from the sensitive and humorous pen of Jimmie Chinn. It was presented and performed as a double bill -- with one of Mr Chinn's other plays, A Respectable Funeral -- under the title of Back to Back in Oldham. Both plays can be performed separately or as an entertaining double bill.

Beryl Tidy, whose life is dominated by her elderly, irascible and demanding father, works at the library and finds that it is her only escape. She has a new boss at the library, Mr Gostilow, who has just moved to the North from London. When Beryl storms out of work after an uncharacteristic fit of temper and fails to return, Gostilow visits her to find out why. Despite the idiosyncratic and often hilarious comments from Beryl's father, Gostilow succeeds in showing her that she needs and is needed by the world outside. This is a touching and gently humorous portrait of a woman's life. 

Premiere Production: The play was first presented by Teddington Theatre Club at Hampton Court Theatre on November 2nd, 1983. The play was also presented on Radio Four on May 19th, 1984.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 1F

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From Here to the Library is one of the first one-act plays from the sensitive and humorous pen of Jimmie Chinn. It was presented and performed as a double bill -- with one of Mr Chinn's other plays, A Respectable Funeral -- under the title of Back to Back in Oldham. Both plays can be performed separately or as an entertaining double bill.

Beryl Tidy, whose life is dominated by her elderly, irascible and demanding father, works at the library and finds that it is her only escape. She has a new boss at the library, Mr Gostilow, who has just moved to the North from London. When Beryl storms out of work after an uncharacteristic fit of temper and fails to return, Gostilow visits her to find out why. Despite the idiosyncratic and often hilarious comments from Beryl's father, Gostilow succeeds in showing her that she needs and is needed by the world outside. This is a touching and gently humorous portrait of a woman's life. 

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