Read Online Ravenhill Plays: 1: Shopping and F***ing; Faust is Dead; Handbag; Some Explicit Polaroids (Contemporary Dramatists) by Mark Ravenhill - Free Book Online Page A

     There’s no one out there.
    Gary      Think just because you don’t feel that way no one else does? There’s lots of people who understand. And someone’s gonna do it.
    I’m going now.
    Mark      Stay please. Please I . . .
    Mark
kisses
Gary ,
who pushes him away
.
    Gary      That’s not true about me mum. I don’t let her kiss me. She’s a slag.
    You go home now. You go back where you belong.
    Mark      I want to stay with you.
    Give me a day, OK? Another day.
    Gary      Don’t waste your time with me.
    Mark      You can . . . look yes. Come home with me.
    Gary      What for? I’m nothing.
    Mark      Show you where I live, who I live with.
    Gary      You’re pathetic you.
    Mark      Just one more day. Give it a day.
    Gary      You gonna take me home and fuck me? Alright then. One day. Take me home.
    Mark      Suck my cock.
    Gary      You taking me home?
    Mark      Suck my cock now. Take you home later.
    Gary      There’s a security camera.
    Mark      Doesn’t matter.
    Gary      All this for me? Fourteen.
    You got it wrong. I’m fourteen.
Scene Twelve
     
    Robbie
and
Lulu
looking at the phone
.
    Robbie      Come on. Ring. Ring.
    This shouldn’t be happening.
    Why is this happening?
    I mean, we’re close really. Nearly two thousand. Over two thousand – that’s good, isn’t it? We’re very, very close. We’ve been working. We’re making money. We’re good at it, aren’t we? Isn’t that right? You’d say that’s right, wouldn’t you?
    Lulu      That’s right.
    Robbie      So, it can’t stop now. They’ve got to keep on coming.
    Ring you bastard ring.
    Shit. I can’t stand it.
    Lulu      It’s just quiet. A quiet time. That happens.
    Robbie      Hasn’t happened before.
    Lulu      Sit down. Relax.
    Robbie      I can’t.
    Lulu      It’ll start again.
    Robbie      There isn’t time. We can’t afford this.
    Lulu      Just a moment’s peace. Make the most of it.
    Robbie      I want to live. I want to survive, don’t you?
    Lulu      I don’t know.
    Robbie      You want to die?
    Lulu      No. I want to be free. I don’t want to live like this.
    Robbie      That’s right. Another day yeah?
    Lulu      Yes.
    Robbie      One more day and we’ll be free.
    Lulu      Yes.
    Robbie      If it keeps on ringing.
    Ping of a microwave
.
    Lulu      Food’s ready.
    Robbie      Yeah.
    Lulu      Eat something?
    Robbie      Yes.
    Exit
Lulu .
    Robbie      Come on. Come on. Please.
    He picks up the phone and speaks into it
.
    Why aren’t you ringing you . . .
    He realises that the line is dead.
    Checks the lead – finds it’s been pulled out of the wall.
    Check the mobiles. They’ve been switched off.
    Sits
.
    Enter
Lulu
with microwave meals, offers one to
Robbie .
    Robbie      No thanks.
    Lulu      Eat something.
    Robbie      No thanks.
    Lulu      Come on.
    Robbie      I’m not hungry.
    Lulu      Alright then.
    Pause
.
    Have a bit.
    Robbie      Don’t want any.
    Lulu      Might as well have a meal while it’s quiet.
    Robbie      You reckon?
    Lulu      It’ll all start again in a minute.
    Robbie      They’ll all be ringing?
    Lulu      Of course.
    Robbie      Don’t think so. Do you?
    Lulu      Course they will.
    Robbie      No. I reckon they’re not gonna ring. I reckon that tomorrow we’re gonna die.
    Lulu      Course not.
    Robbie      Because I reckon that one of us wants to die.
    Lulu      No.
    Robbie      No?
    Lulu      No.
    Robbie      Then tell me why one of us disconnected the phones.
    Lulu      For a few moments. I just wanted / a few minutes peace.
    Robbie      And I want to live. That’s what I want to do.
    Lulu      I just wanted to eat a meal without