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This is a Chair
About this book
A short play about the surreal nature of modern life.
A play that is at once modern and postmodern, tragedy and farce, about all and about nothing.
Caryl Churchill's This is a Chair was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre at the Duke of York's, London, on 25 June 1997 as part of the London International Festival of Theatre.
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THIS IS A CHAIR
The War in Bosnia
JULIAN is waiting in a London street holding a bunch of flowers.
MARY arrives.
MARY | Iām so sorry. |
JULIAN | Thatās all right, donāt worry. |
MARY | Have you been here ages? |
JULIAN | I got you these. |
MARY | Theyāre beautiful. |
JULIAN | I donāt know what you like. |
MARY | Thank you very much. |
JULIAN | I like orange and blue together, I donāt know if you do, I thought of roses but I think roses are a bit dull, I donāt like pink and red very much as colours, I donāt mind yellow but I thought these. |
MARY | Listen, Iām afraid thereās a problem. |
JULIAN | Yes. |
MARY | Iāve made a stupid mistake. |
JULIAN | Never mind. |
MARY | No but Iāve made two different arrangements for the same evening, Iāve doublebooked myself, I donāt know how I can be so stupid. |
JULIAN | So you have to make a phonecall or . . . ? |
MARY | No, itās really awful, what I have to do is jump in a cab and go whizzing off. Because I have to be there by half past seven. |
JULIAN | Something starts at half past seven? |
MARY | Yes and I couldnāt reach the other person and anyway the tickets and . . . |
JULIAN | Donāt worry. |
MARY | It is a concert I particularly . . . |
JULIAN | Yes of course. Weād better look for a cab. |
MARY | It was the arrangement I made first you see and somehow it slipped my mind and I thought we might have time for a drink anyway but then I was late finishing work and there was a hold-up on the tube it stopped in the tunnel for about five minutes people were starting to get nervous you could see from the way they kept on reading or just staring into space but deliberately because they were getting nervo... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Characters
- This is a Chair
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information
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