Haslemere  UNA Branch Theatre offers dramatised readings of the following peace plays by Frances Jessup

francesjess@clara.co.uk for when available and to book for your venue

 

Official Secrets of the Peace Movement

A play about temptation that begins in the Garden of Eden and ends in the Museum of Nuclear Warfare

 

Prometheus Unbound

A play about a night in the life of the Father of the Atom Bomb ‘very moving at the heart’ Christopher Fry

 

Old Lady Calls her M.P.

An old lady in reduced circumstances summons her daughter from the South Coast when she is on her deathbed and   mutters about ‘pro patria mori

 

The Life and Times of Chico Mendes

A play about the Amazonian rubber tapper who first alerted the world to the importance of saving the rainforest 

 

Interviewing Mrs Thatcher

The iron lady is interviewed by a passionate socialist

 

A Meeting Between Boutros Boutros & Kalinda of the Khymer Rouge & A Member of the Public in Edinbergh

Boutros-Ghali helps a young supporter of Pol Pot to confront the enormity of his crime and become a supporter of his Agenda for Peace

 

Reform Reform the UN

‘A hammer and tongs performance between Gaia and the Secretary General’

Christopher Fry

 

The Car: A Fable for Voices

The car god wishes to atone and help save the planet by becoming an oak

 

End of a War

Based on Euripides 2000 year old peace play

 

Reform Reform Reform the UN

A Secretary General hears the Earth Mother crying for help and has a terrible dream

In which the Father of the Atom Bomb appears

 

Ralph and Rebecca and Signing the Charter

The play is about the nine weeks’ conference in San Francisco in 1945 and Eleanor Roosevelt setting sail in the Queen Elizabeth, after the death of her husband,

To attend the first UN General Assembley in London and chair the Commission on Human Rights

 

 

New Theatre Publications has published The Fable for Voices, Interviewing Mrs Thatcher and Meeting as Three Short Plays by Frances Jessup  plays4theatre@ntlworld.com  to order copies