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Got To Hide Your Love Away | Play reading
January 9 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
We’re thrilled to be hosting a play reading of local writer Jacqueline Everett’s play, Got To Hide Your Love Away, which was long listed for The Bush script reading scheme. The play reading will take place in the upstairs room of the Black Swan Inn in York at 7.30pm on Tuesday 9 January 2024.
We’re looking for 8 actors for this reading, sharing the four roles below. The reading will be followed by a discussion with Jacqueline. All are welcome to attend, if you’re looking to read or simply sit back and listen. YSCP members can attend for free and the cost for non members is £5, which can be paid on the night (cash or card). If you’d like to come along, please email us at yorksettlementcommunityplayers@gmail.com to reserve your place.
About the play
‘Got To Hide Your Love Away’ is about the 1966 football World Cup, Béla Bartók, The Beatles, love, betrayal and hope…
It is set in a Budapest steel works canteen in 1965 and 1966 during the qualifying rounds of the World Cup and ten years after the 1956 Hungarian uprising (bloodily suppressed by Russian forces). Teenage football fan, Terez, blacklisted on account of her sister’s prominent role in the ‘uprising’, is desperate to get a life. But, after Terez battles to secure a job in the canteen kitchen, she finds herself caught up in web of conflicting loyalties. And secrets.
The roles
KLÁRA FODOR (KLARI): Female. A cleaner in the factory. In her early forties. A former professor who once taught Russian, German and English at the university. Has an intermittent cough characteristic of asthma.
ALÍZ BAKO: Female. The factory chief cook. In her late thirties with peroxide blond hair.
TEREZ KOVÁCS (TERI): Female. The new kitchen assistant. In her late teens. Sporty.
ISTVÁN FARKAS (PISTI): Male. A factory foreman, and the works social club secretary. Mid to late twenties. Fanatical about football. Used to be in the Hungarian youth team.
About the writer
Jacqueline lives in Yorkshire and writes plays, poetry, and historical novels (The Road to Waterloo, The Road to Peterloo). She is currently working on her third novel, The Road to Ruin, whilst continuing to write plays. She has had various script in hand performances whilst her drama Trespass was shown on the Northern TV networks in 1997. An extract from Got to Hide Your Love Away won Script Yorkshire’s 25th anniversary competition and the full length play was ‘long listed’ for the Bush script reading scheme. This event is the first read through of the subsequently revised version.