Open Works Festival Presents a work in progress double bill performance of Echo Echo Beach and Tuesdays at Tesco's

Echo Echo Beach

Things aren’t like they used to be, are they? A show about nostalgia; an ode to the crumbling, faded glory of seaside towns and the faded glory of our crumbling bodies. Come relive better days and listen with us to our favourite song, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again…

Tuesdays at Tesco's

‘I am as I am. Myself me and that’s that.’  

Every Tuesday Jacqueline goes back to her home town and loyally spends the day with her father, tidies his home, does his ironing. Then they go to Tesco. Every Tuesday.   

All eyes are on Jacqueline when they go shopping. They know her, you see. Before Jacqueline, her name was something else. A dead name. And to her father she remains that dead name, despite all appearances to the contrary.   

Told through the eyes of a woman facing the wind of an ever-growing social and political storm against her kind, Jacqueline must navigate her way through it to reach her father and hold on to the last family she has left. Whatever the cost.  

A touching one-person play about identity, returning home and the complexity of family and legacy.

Emmanuel Darley's French-language play, Le Mardi à Monoprix, was a critical and commercial hit when it premiered in Paris in 2009, and went on to be nominated for a Molière, France's national theatre awards.

This English translation, Tuesdays at Tesco's, by Matthew Hurt and Sarah Vermande, was first performed by Simon Callow at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award and a Herald Archangel Award.

Thank you to the Darley estate, Matthew Hurt, Sarah Vermande and Daniel Mawson.

The performances of Tuesdays At Tesco's at Open WorksFestival are dedicated to the memory of Daniel Thorpe.

Part of Open Works Festival