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 B

. . . all that.
    Robbie      There’ll be time later.
    Lulu      I can’t stand it. In my head.
    Robbie      And what about me?
    We’ve got to do this together.
    Robbie
moves to reconnect the phone
.
    Lulu      No. Please. Not yet.
    Robbie      We have to carry on.
    Lulu      After we’ve eaten this. Ten, five minutes.
    Robbie      Come on.
    Lulu      There was this phone call. I had this call. Twenty minutes, half hour ago. Youngish. Quite well spoken really. And I did the . . . you know . . . where are you sitting? In the living-room. Right. And you’re . . . ? Yes, yes, playing with his dick. Good. Fine. So far, auto-pilot. And then he says, I’m watching this video. Well, that’s good. And then he starts to . . . he describes . . . because he got this video from his mate who copied it from his mate who copied it from dahdahdah. And I mean, he’s wanking to this video of a woman, a student girl who’s in the Seven-Eleven, working behind the counter. And there’s a wino and . . . yeah.
    Robbie      Fuck.
    Lulu      Yeah. He was wanking to the video.
    So if we can just. A few more minutes.
    Robbie      No. We’re gonna carry on.
    Lulu      Eat something first.
    Robbie      There’s no time.
    Lulu      Eat. Eat. Eat first. Few minutes.
    Robbie      I’m not eating.
    Lulu      What’s wrong with the / . . . Look, if I’m eating . . . If I can . . .
    Robbie      I don’t want the food, / it doesn’t taste of anything . . .
    Lulu      And why? / What is so wrong that you can’t eat it?
    Robbie      I’m not eating. / There isn’t time.
    Lulu      Come on, you’ve got the world here. You’ve got all the tastes in the world. You’ve got an empire under cellophane. Look, China. India. Indonesia. In the past you’d have to invade, you’d have to occupy just to get one of these things and now, when they’re sitting here in front of you, you’re telling me you can’t taste anything.
    Lulu
holds
Robbie
back to prevent him reconnecting the phone
.
    Robbie      Well, yes. Yes I am. / There’s no taste. This stuff tastes of nothing.
    Lulu      Eat it. Eat it. Eat it.
    Robbie      This stuff?
    Lulu      Now. Eat it now.
    Robbie      No. This? This is shit. / This? I wouldn’t feed a fuckng paraplegic with cancer this shit.
    Lulu      Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it.
    Lulu
pushes
Robbie
’s face into the food
.
    Enter
Mark
and
Gary .
    Mark      Hello.
    Robbie      Where have you been?
    You went out to get chocolate. A week ago.
    Chocolate or a cheeseburger from the shop.
    So why have you brought him back?
    Mark      Show him where I live.
    Robbie      Been shopping? How did you pay for all that?
    Mark      He paid.
    Gary      Yeah. Paid for everything.
    Mark      Who I lived with.
    Robbie      And here we are. I’m Barney, this is Betty. Pebbles is playing outside somewhere. And you must be Wayne.
    Gary      Wayne? I’m not Wayne. Who’s Wayne?
    Lulu      We’re just eating. Sitting down for a meal. It’s actually very difficult to share them actually because they’re specifically designed as individual portions but I can get an extra plate. Plate. Knife. Whatever.
    Mark      No no no. I don’t think we’re that hungry.
    Robbie      We? We? Listen to that: we.
    Mark      Well, I don’t think we are.
    Gary      Didn’t come round to eat, did we?
    Mark      No, no, we didn’t, no.
    Robbie      You on special offer?
    Gary      You what?
    Robbie      Cheaper than a Twix?
    Gary      He don’t need to pay me.
    Robbie      Really? He will do. He’s got this thing. Has to make it a transaction.
    Gary      Not with me.
    Lulu      It all got a bit messy.
    Robbie      Paid Wayne, didn’t you?
    Mark      Gary, this is Lulu.
    Lulu      Things got out of