Tight

by Tina Esper

2025 NuWorks Play Development Series and Staged Reading at the Studio@620
2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semifinalist

May is in love with Beau Jameson. Beau Jameson is in love with May. But May is old enough to be his mother! So what's May to do? Aha! She'll get a total rejuvenation package--from face to lady bits! May's daughter Ophelia thinks she's insane, so attempts to run interference only to discover that maybe she needs a total reinvention herself. This play asks the hard questions: Is it ever too late to fall in love? Who can love who? And is beauty only skin deep...or deeper?

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Playwrights Foundation: Tight by Tina Esper

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The community of National Committee readers for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced TIGHT as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We found this piece to be a deeply funny exploration of bodies, lust, and aging. We were specifically drawn to the script’s celebration of elders as complex, funny, and vibrant individuals. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production.

The community of National Committee readers for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced TIGHT as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We found this piece to be a deeply funny exploration of bodies, lust, and aging. We were specifically drawn to the script’s celebration of elders as complex, funny, and vibrant individuals. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production.

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Kim E. Ruyle: Tight by Tina Esper

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I loved this play! Tight grabbed me from the opening and held me tightly in its grip until the surprising and highly satisfying conclusion. The premise, the characters, and dialogue are fabulous. It’s so refreshing to see stories like this, stories about vibrant seniors in the thralls of love… Or lust... Fantastic!

I loved this play! Tight grabbed me from the opening and held me tightly in its grip until the surprising and highly satisfying conclusion. The premise, the characters, and dialogue are fabulous. It’s so refreshing to see stories like this, stories about vibrant seniors in the thralls of love… Or lust... Fantastic!

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