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Content Type:

Playtext

Period (first performed):

1991-2000

Playwrights:

Gems, Pam

Setting:

Africa

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Deborah’s Daughter

Deborah’s Daughter (summary)

Written by Pam Gems

~playauthor~Written by ~Pam Gems
DOI: 10.5040/9781784601713.00000005
Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

Pam Gems' play Deborah’s Daughter explores the fragile relationship between the West and the developing world seen through the prism of a mother/daughter relationship. It was first performed at the Library Theatre, Manchester on 3 March 1994.

Deborah Pedersen has been recently widowed. Her husband was an enormously powerful oil tycoon to whom Deborah was devoted. She even sacrificed her burgeoning career as a scientist to enable his ambitions. Now she is left to pick up the pieces after his death in an unnamed North African country with strong business ties to Pedersen Oil. The trouble is, she is largely unacquainted with the country and its people. Along with her precocious and privileged daughter, Stephanie, and her short-tempered mother, Rhoda, the women find themselves caught up in a violent coup. When Deborah becomes romantically involved with Hassan, an army Colonel with a poetic streak, her life begins to unravel.

The Library Theatre production was directed by Sue Dunderdale and designed by Shimon Castiel. The cast was Anna Carteret, Jane Freeman, Mia Fothergill, Raad Rawi, Peter Yapp, Philip Darling, Nasser Memarzia and Royce Hounsell.

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Deborah’s Daughter
  • Title:
    Deborah's Daughter
  • Author(s) / Editor(s):
    Pam Gems
  • ISBN:

    9781784601713 (online)

    9781854592477

  • Date of Publication:
    1995
  • Drama Publishers
  • Place of Publication:
    London
  • Publisher:
    Nick Hern Books
  • Edition:
    First Edition
  • Content Set:
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Copyright © 1995 by Pam Gems

Enquire about performing rights for professional performances at: Curtis Brown Group Ltd

Enquire about performing rights for amateur performances at: Nick Hern Books Ltd

All rights whatsoever in this play are strictly reserved and application for performance etc. should be made before rehearsals to the performance rights holder. No performance may be given unless a licence has been obtained. No rights in incidental music or songs contained in the Work are hereby granted and performance rights for any performance/presentation whatsoever must be obtained from the respective copyright owners.