Triplex Nervosa Trilogy

by Marianne Ackerman

Tass Nazor has given up her cello to buy a three-story stone apartment building. Her friends/tenants, a clingy seller and semi-reliable handyman, drive her to the brink. The sequel, Rooftop Eden, finds Tass hosting a memorial dinner for one who has died, meanwhile juggling motherhood and a musical career. A few months later, Famously delivers the ultimate clash of ambition versus domestic bliss. Seven actors play 17 characters. Features music by the incomparable Mile End composer/performer Patrick Watson.

269 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 1, 2020

About the author

Born in Ontario, citizen of Montreal since the Eighties. Three published novels, 2 short story collections, and a dozen plays including Triplex Nervosa, to be published spring 2020 by Guernica Editions as Triplex Nervosa Trilogy, with an introduction about the slings and arrows of writing for theatre: Where do plays come from? Where do they go?

Reviews

[Martin J Saxton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this trilogy of the events of a decade in the life of Tass Nazor, property developer and cellist.

Marianne Ackerman creates an atmospheric setting and a great set of characters to populate these plays.

Life can be messy and financially challenging, as for ambitions and relationships - well, sometimes you need a ghost or someone from the past to help sort things out.

Well-tempered scripts that would make very satisfying theatre.