Overview
Character Name
Bessie Burgess
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Spoken, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Vocal Technique
Folk
Time & Place
Dublin, Ireland, November 1915 - Easter week 1916
Analysis
“[Bessie] is a woman of forty, vigorously built. Her face is a dogged one, hardened by toil, and little coarsened by drink.”
Bessie Burgess is an Irishwoman living in Dublin. She resides on her own in the same tenement building as the Clitheroes. She works as a street
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