Tell Me How it Ends
By (Author) Tasha Dowd
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
12th July 2024
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)
Relationships: friends / peer groups
822.92
Paperback
72
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Tell me what you're gonna do, tell me all these things you're gonna do. That sounds like a story worth spoiling. Its Liverpool, 1987. The AIDS epidemic threatens a generation of queer people left with no one to turn to but themselves. Across the world, groups of lesbian women hold out their hands to help and right here in this city, Aster sits by Marcs hospital bed watching, wondering and reading. Tasha Dowd's Tell Me How it Ends is about queer lives connected two people deemed polar opposites realising they're tied to each other in the face of an uncertain tomorrow. As they laugh, dance and argue their way into their future, can they make sure their own storys ending never comes A joyous and uplifting journey through bedrooms and nightclubs, bad oysters, surprises and secrets, Tell Me How it Ends was the 2023 Homotopia Writers Award winner. In this warm and wonderful world premiere, theres lots of living to be done. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre in June 2024.
Tasha Dowd is a multi-instrumentalist actor, musician, and writer based in Liverpool and Leeds. Tasha studied at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and Leeds Conservatoire. Off-stage, Tasha collaborates with theatre companies to compose and musically direct songs for their productions. Tasha's play Tell Me How it Ends won the 2023 Homotopia Writers' Award and was staged in June 2024 at the Liverpool Everyman.