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Got to be Happy

  • Simon Burt
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9781854597465

A poignant and tender-hearted play set in a pub kitchen.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
A poignant and tender-hearted play set in a pub kitchen.

When fifty-something Connie starts work in a pub kitchen one sweltering summer, she proves to be the catalyst for change in everyone's lives: Charley, the stubborn cook, is forced to reassess his past; while Richard, the stroppy bar manager, and his waitress girlfriend Caroline, come to realise that they may not be heading for the same future.

Simon Burt's play Got to be Happy was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2003.
REVIEWS:

"A tender study of love, loss and loneliness... a genuinely compassionate play that augurs well for Burt's future."

 The Guardian

"Simon Burt has evoked searingly poetic intensities of love... Quite superb."

 Evening Standard

"It's good to find a dramatist who not only writes deft dialogue but takes a romantic view of love. Burt is clearly a Simon to watch."

 The Times

Premiere Production: Bush Theatre, London, 2003.

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  • Casting: 2M, 2F

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A poignant and tender-hearted play set in a pub kitchen.

When fifty-something Connie starts work in a pub kitchen one sweltering summer, she proves to be the catalyst for change in everyone's lives: Charley, the stubborn cook, is forced to reassess his past; while Richard, the stroppy bar manager, and his waitress girlfriend Caroline, come to realise that they may not be heading for the same future.

Simon Burt's play Got to be Happy was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2003.

$24.95

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