Green a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78001-863-8
Verlag: Nick Hern Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten

Reihe: NHB Modern Plays

'It's not always all about you.' Three couples. What might be. What once was. What could have been. debbie tucker green's play premiered in February 2017 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, in a production directed by the playwright.

debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Her plays include: ear for eye (Royal Court Theatre, 2018); a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011); random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003). She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film. Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gone, random, handprint and freefall. She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Debbie Tucker

Leseproben

PART ONE

Scene One

A So is it –

B no.

A Is it that / you’re –

B No it is / not.

A so it’s

B there is no ‘it’s’ it’s nothing there’s nothing

A you’re not –

B no. Nothing. There isn’t.

Beat.

A My bad.

B Yeh.

A 

B 

B ‘My bad’ – piss off.

A I’ve always –

B no you haven’t.

A 

B 

B It’s not always all about you.

A Well. It usually is.

Isn’t it.

Beat.

…So there is –

B no there / isn’t.

A you’re –

B no

A you have a –

B (quietly) fuck / me.

A something’s not right

B you’re jumping / to –

A something about you’s not / right.

B (dry) really? Right. Me. Right.

A I’m just –

B is it? Me. Right.

(dry) My bad.

Beat.

You jump to conclusions. You always jump to – jumped to conclusions and wrong conclusions in leaps and fuckin bounds

A I know / you.

B come to conclusions where there aint none

A I do know / you.

B makin me make conclusions where there ent / one.

A I do still know you.

B Makin me want to make conclusions where there ent none to make, me makin them to make you feel better bout concluding there are conclusions, when there aint no conclusions to be had. Shit.

A …You ent never said something just to make me feel better.

B I ent lied to make you feel better / no.

A When have you ever said something to me to make me feel / better?

B I’m not gonna lie to you to make / you –

A Something considerate to – something mindful – and I’m not talking bout your / lies.

B you wanting me to say somethin to say anythin just so you can feel somethin – somethin good about y’self – no – and I don’t lie –

A thass one right there

B and I won’t say somethin just to say anything and lies ent got nuthin to do with what I do and don’t say what I will and won’t say what I won’t and don’t say – want to say and don’t – to you.

A I think –

B jump to conclusions –

A I think that –

B jump to your conclusions.

A I think that this is still about / me.

B (You) get me nervous to say anything me not knowin how you’d ‘conclude’ about it wrongly

A you’re nervous of nothing.

B Nervous of you

A couldn’t make you nervous of nuthin that you didn’t wanna be nervous of even if I wanted to.

B You wanted to.

A …I did not

B you tried to

A I do not

B you wanted to try to.

A I did (not). I –. I… No.

Beat.

You’ve never been nervous of me.

B Y’sound disappointed.

Beat.

A You’ve never been nervous of anything about me.

And there are no conclusions jumped to. Nothin in fuckin ‘leaps and bounds’ thank you – nuthin needed to be jumped to regarding you as you’re / quite –

B Here we / go.

A quite straightforward.

B Here. We. / Go.

A In a straightforward sort of way.

B That the best you can do?

A No.

A 

B 

B …You didn’t understand my complexity.

A I think I / did.

B You never did understand how complex I could / be.

A I think I did. I think, there weren’t much to understand – I understood what was understandable.

B 

A What was coherent.

B You didn’t try to understand.

A I understood what was there to-sometimes – and this is with respect – sometimes you mistook – I felt you mistook, complexity, for… confusions.

B 

A 

A You were confusing – could be confusing.

B For you.

A (dry) Hmm no – you were, a bag of confusion.

Bags a contradiction, inconsistent –

B if you weren’t able / to –

A confusing generally and sometimes-sometimes – you mistook ‘confusion’ for actual… crap (gestures) was a bit crap about you. Not complex. Shit crap. About you. Bags of it.

B …You weren’t able to support my / complex –

A Bit of a fuck up bit of a crap fuck / up.

B You didn’t have it in / you to –

A (A) bit self-indulgent.

B Patience wasn’t one of / your –

A Well, very self- / indulgent.

B compassion wasn’t something you ever –

A I was compassionate

B you were condescending

A I was more than compassionate

B and I / knew –

A you drained my compassion well dry

B knew you didn’t understand me

A I was desert-like you got me-you drained me to a desert-like / state.

B knowin you didn’t understand want to understand never did understand me was quite an underwhelming experience. Generally.

A I went from bein an oasis of understanding to an – and I understood your lack of complexity which pissed you off I was more than patient with you which pissed you off more and you knew I could read you better’n you knew yourself – and underwhelming?

B (dry) With all due respect and all that.

A ‘Underwhelming’?

B Or am I not bein straightforward enough for / you?

A After seein y’mouth never sayin what y’mind was thinkin for years –

B thass depth

A now you got the-the no iss not – thass not depth thass boring. Was your eyes sayin one thing and your mouth not havin the bottle to follow / through.

B Thass knowin you won’t get what I got to say you won’t have the patience compassion or complexity –

A you were / boring.

B so I didn’t bother sayin it.

A You were borin.

B Don’t bother sayin it.

A In all aspects.

B ‘All aspects’ – borin’?

A All aspects.

B Fuck off.

Beat.

…Straightforward is good.

A I’m sure it is. If you were that.

…Do you miss me?

B 

A Do you even –

B you leapt and fuckin bounded…?

A Do you miss –.

B 

A 

A You miss me…?

…Did you miss being… ‘Underwhelmed’?

About me.

At all.

Then?

B …

Scene Two

A is busy.

B I want you. Yeah.

I want you to me. Want you with me want me us.

I want you beyond what I can say

beyond what I got words for

beyond my vocabulary

beyond any vocabulary

beyond language

beyond imagination,

beyond what words can do beyond what my words can do. Beyond what words have been known to do, have yet to do, beyond what they will ever...