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    The Village Church (NHB Modern Plays)
    The Village Church (NHB Modern Plays)
    The Village Church (NHB Modern Plays)
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    The Village Church (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Tamara von Werthern

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    A short play about faith, families, and fitting in.
    Tom and Marie, a couple in their sixties, have just made the move from London to a small village in the countryside. And everything's different out here.
    Marie is getting involved with the church community, just to find her way into village life. But Tom is a committed atheist, and a bit of a hermit. He won't listen to reason. Until events intervene, and he discovers a faith that's stronger than anyone expected.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateNov 18, 2017
    ISBN9781780019819
    The Village Church (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Tamara von Werthern

    Tamara von Werthern is a playwright and producer. As a playwright, her work includes The White Bike (The Space, London, 2017) and the short plays Baby Dolls (Hackney Attic, 2015) and The Village Church. Her work has also been shown at the Royal Court, the Arcola Theatre, Burdall’s Yard, Bath, the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London, and the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, as well as a number of site-specific performances with her own theatre company Para-Site Productions and Plays Rough London. She is founder and producer of Fizzy Sherbet, a writing initiative for women from across the world with regular events taking place at Hackney Attic. She has published short stories and poetry as well as a crime novel written in German.

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      The Village Church (NHB Modern Plays) - Tamara von Werthern

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      Tamara von Werthern

      THE VILLAGE CHURCH

      NICK HERN BOOKS

      London

      www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

      Contents

      Title Page

      Characters

      The Village Church

      About the Author

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information

      Characters

      TOM, late sixties, old commie

      MARIE, mid-fifties, bubbly and sociable

      ZOE, their daughter, early thirties and a breath of fresh air

      It’s dark.

      We hear the last stanza of the hymn ‘As We Gather at Your Table’, sung by many voices at a village church service. It’s ephemeral, beautiful, a bit haunting.

      Lights up on TOM, in corduroys, a nice shirt, glasses on a chain round his neck and a flowery pink-and-blue Cath Kidston apron that has seen better days. The hymn fades into Radio 4, from a transistor radio on the kitchen counter. He stirs a big Le Creuset pot on the Aga, then looks into

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