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Tess and the Pest is a three-act comedic play based on the true story of Esther Simpson’s friendship with Nobel prize-winning physicist Leo Szilard. Tess - as her friends call her - arrives in London in the mid-1930s to join the Academic Assistance Council, which is in dire need of a competent hand. As the Nazis are purging Germany for dissenters and Jews, Tess also has to deal with the resistance of pre-war Britain to welcome the refugees - personified in the play by the proprietor of The Daily Mail Viscount Rothermere through his personal private secretary William Outhwaite.

Tess and the Pest Andras Forgacs

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Tess and the Pest is a three-act comedic play based on the true story of Esther Simpson’s friendship with Nobel prize-winning physicist Leo Szilard. Tess - as her friends call her - arrives in London in the mid-1930s to join the Academic Assistance Council, which is in dire need of a competent hand. As the Nazis are purging Germany for dissenters and Jews, Tess also has to deal with the resistance of pre-war Britain to welcome the refugees - personified in the play by the proprietor of The Daily Mail Viscount Rothermere through his personal private secretary William Outhwaite.

    Tess and the Pest

    Tess and the Pest

    Tess and the Pest is a three-act comedic play based on the true story of Esther Simpson’s friendship with Nobel prize-winning physicist Leo Szilard. Tess - as her friends call her - arrives in London in the mid-1930s to join the Academic Assistance Council, which is in dire need of a competent hand to help displaced German scientists. As the Nazis are purging Germany for Jews and other dissenters, Tess also has to deal with the resistance of pre-war Britain to welcome the refugees - personified in the play by the proprietor of The Daily Mail Viscount Rothermere through his personal private secretary William Outhwaite.



    Cast: 



    Tamara Ritthaler - Tess Simpson

    Dan March - Walter Adams/Matthews, head of the tribunal

    Mihály Szabados - Leo Szilard

    Margaréta Szabó - Gisela Peiser

    Nigel Thomas - Max Perutz

    Tom Knight - William Outhwaite

    Christopher Presswell - Simpkins



    Sound mix by Nick Desmond.



    Written by András Forgács W.


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    • 1 hr 8 min

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