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TELL ME AGAIN

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TELL ME AGAIN is a memory play which explores one man's journey of love and loss. We travel backwards through time to unravel the terrible tragedy which has befallen him, and then move forwards with him as he tries to make sense of his conflicted heart.

We meet HIM on a bench by a lake, chatting amiably with a seeming stranger about the nature of birds, and indeed all things living. As we move backwards in time, this stranger becomes more and more familiar, until we recognise HER as his wife. We are privy to that most intimate of relationships, between those in love, each scene sharpening in focus as her symptoms bubble to the surface, and her early dementia becomes the stranger in their marriage.

TELL ME AGAIN is a story about the havoc dementia wreaks. The play’s difference and strength is that it requires the participation of its audience to unlock the puzzle and dive into the unknown, into a world where memory becomes dream, with love the only constant. Unexpectedly funny, deeply sensual and ultimately heartbreaking, TELL ME AGAIN is a world many of us will travel through.

"Jeanette Cronin’s Tell Me Again shows a love and respect for the theatrical form and its audience, aiming to provide a moment in time with something deeply emotional, perhaps making us feel things in a way that our real daily lives are too fragile or restless to permit." - Suzy Wrong, Suzy Goes See

"...fascinating...has the literary echoes, for me, of Harold Pinter and Edward Albee - two authors not to be blinked at and, to boot, gorgeous to listen to." - Kevin Jackson's Theatre Diary

TELL ME AGAIN is a companion play to I LOVE YOU NOW.

Form/Style: memory play; puzzle play; poetic; lyrical.
Length in minutes: 75
Cast: 2 total
Roles: 1 female identifying, 1 male identifying
Themes: women
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: teen, young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Female | Unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 61

EXTRACT: Writerâ€™s Note: SHE has just returned home after getting a big promotion. With great excitement and joy she tells HIM an elaborate story of how her colleagues tricked her in to believing she didnâ€™t win the promotion. Her mind, racing with excitement, becomes muddled and confused when he interrupts her, and she begins the story again as if for the first time. At this point in the play her dementia is undiagnosed. In previous scenes he has started to notice that something is not quite right with her, and by the end of this scene his worst fears gain traction. She had been pushing these incidents to the corners of her mind, but now simple forgetfulness crystallises into the unspeakable. There is no going back. All scenes which follow are post-diagnosis. "I got it! I got it! I fucking got it! It's me! I'm the oneâ€”I'm the winner! Chicken dinner. (fast) Persecution! They did this whole thing. This whole elaborate thing, where they allâ€”they must have planned it for agesâ€”it was so ... well-executed, fucking sneaky and smart, really smart, like me-smart, but even better fuck them. Fuck these smart colleaguey-fuck-bags. I was touched though, really touched, that someoneâ€”no lots of themâ€”no fucking all of them would go to so much trouble to shit on me before the sunshine!"

Adult language, Adult themes

REVIEW

SUZY GOES SEE, SUZY WONG, 2014

"Tell Me Again shows a love and respect for the theatrical form and its audience, aiming to provide a moment in time with something deeply emotional, perhaps making us feel things in a way that our real daily lives are too fragile or restless to permit." - Suzy Wong

REVIEW

8 NIGHTS A WEEK, 2014

"Itâ€™s not easy to work out what is going on in this short piece by Jeanette Cronin but that doesnâ€™t make this sometimes playful, sometimes melancholy meditation on love and memory any less enjoyable."

REVIEW

WWW.THEATREUNZIPPED.WORDPRESS.COM, STEVIE ZIPPER, 2014

"Tell Me Againâ€™ is a dynamic, heart wrenching sensation of the mystery of mind and soul." - Stevie Zipper

REVIEW

KEVIN JACKSON'S THEATRE DIARY, 2014

"...fascinating..." - Kevin Jackson

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