Ally: Hi…mum, mum, can you hear me? Catherine: Ally…Ally, is that you? It’s great to hear you Catherine closes her eyes and breathes a deep sigh of relief, then signals a thumbs up to the waiting face peeking through the glass pane in the door. Ally: It’s a really bad line mum, can you hear […]
Sam: A bottle of vodka and a packet of cigarettes; please, this will not work. Alex: I need to distract her enough so she doesn’t start digging. Now move that chair so it’s facing the window, it looks too…too uniform there. Sam: You are joking! After all the Feng Shui nonsense you insisted on […]
Smiling and still wearing her headphones Letitia walks into the office. Unable to wait any longer, Bev reaches out and pulls Letitia’s arm pointing at the open Metro on her desk. BEV: He’s responded! LETITIA: Who’s he? BEV: Tall guy, dark hair, green coat, glasses – I’m not a fan of green as you know […]
Mary finally opened her eyes as dawn was slowly breaking. There was no point trying to sleep anymore. Not that she had slept, most of the night had been spent turning from left to right trying to stay cool. She would have been less tired if she stayed up all night. Swinging her heavy legs […]
Evelyn and Gail grew up together they used to be best friends, but an act of betrayal has destroyed their friendship. They have not seen or spoken to each other for nearly 3 years. Evelyn has entered the lift and the doors are closing before she realises Gail is already in there. Gail smiles broadly […]
The action takes place in a Polling station. The ensemble moves to the back of the stage leaving Annabel and Joan to tell their separate stories about different aspects of their previous lives. Joan has dementia and is reminiscing about her youth when she went travelling. When Joan returned from travelling she became a still […]
Saturday; named after the planet Saturn. Julie always wondered why that was, but who cares right now? This was the day; the one she’d been dreaming about, ticking off all the other days on the calendar for the last six months except this date. Today’s date had a great big red ring around it and […]
