So Here We Are
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So Here We Are

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So Here We Are

About this book

Frankie's dead. And no one's quite sure why. But the boys won't talk about it. They can't. There are some truths that men can't share.

Luke Norris's So Here We Are is a play about what can happen when nothing happens, a compassionate look at young lives cut short and a touching portrait of childhood friendships under strain in adult life.

The play was the winner of a Judges Award at the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. It premiered at the HighTide Festival in September 2015, in a co-production with the Royal Exchange, Manchester, in a production directed by Steven Atkinson.

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Information

Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781780016573
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
British Drama
Index
Literature
PART ONE
Southend, Essex.
A milk-white day at the arse-end of summer.
SMUDGE and PUGH sit high up on the crumbling, graffitidaubed sea wall. PIDGE stands between them, wearing a surgical eyepatch.
DAN stands below on the sand/shingle, smoking a cigarette.
All are mid-twenties and are dressed in variations of black suits with ties (except SMUDGE who is in a short-sleeved shirt with no jacket). They each have a beer.
A long silence ā€“ as long as we can get away with ā€“ as they look out at the water.
The occasional swig of beer.
Nothingness.
PIDGE looks around at the other boys.
One. Two. Three. And himself.
Beat.
PIDGE. Well heā€™s fucked up the five-a-side, en e?
SMUDGE and PUGH laugh/smile. To acknowledge the joke more than anything. DAN doesnā€™t react.
Silence again.
What time is it now?
No one responds.
Beat.
PIDGE takes out his phone and checks the time, puts it away again.
Beat.
She wants to hurry up, I need a shit
PUGH. Nice
SMUDGE. I could do with / a poo
PIDGE. Iā€™ve already had two, itā€™s that fuckin coffee
SMUDGE. I ainā€™t bin all day
PUGH. What / coffee?
SMUDGE. I think itā€™s the stress
PIDGE. I had a double expresso this mornin before I et anyfin.
PUGH. Espresso.
PIDGE. You what?
PUGH. Espresso. Not expresso
PIDGE. Yeah thatā€™s what I said, espresso.
PUGH. Alright
PIDGE. Na I did
PUGH. Alright
PIDGE. I fuckin did, Smudge didnā€™t I say?
SMUDGE. I dint fink you drinked coffee?
PIDGE. Na well I donā€™t do I cos it makes me shit.
PUGH. Makes you talk shit
SMUDGE. Then whyā€™d you have one?
PIDGE. I dunno I thought it might gissa bit of summink, help us out or whatever like, I dunno
PUGH. You shouldā€™ve had your spinach.
PIDGE. My what?
PUGH. Your spinach.
PIDGE. What the fuck are you on about?
SMUDGE. Spinach
PUGH. Popeye
PIDGE. Popeye?
PUGH. Popeye, spinach
SMUDGE. Oh / yeah
PIDGE. Popeye yer fuckin ā€“ donā€™t start all that again
PUGH. Aye aye
PIDGE. Oi I mean it Iā€™m tryin to have a serious conversation here / yer cunt
PUGH. About how coffee makes you poo!
PIDGE. About how putting a mate in the ground takes it outta yer.
Long beat.
SMUDGE. Are knackerin ent they.
PIDGE. Eh?
SMUDGE. I never bin to one before.
PIDGE. What, like never?
SMUDGE. Na
PIDGE. What about
PUGH. Lucky you
PIDGE. Yā€™know likeā€¦
SMUDGE. What.
PIDGE. Your old man
SMUDGE. Oh. Na.
PIDGE. Yer never went?
SMUDGE. Na
PIDGE. What, yer mum never took yer?
SMUDGE shakes his head.
Thatā€™s a bit fuckinā€¦
SMUDGE shrugs.
SMUDGE. I was only two.
PUGH. Three.
SMUDGE. Eh?
PUGH. You were three.
SMUDGE. Was I?
PUGH. Yeah.
SMUDGE. Oh.
SMUDGE counts on his fingers.
Yeah, I was only three.
PIDGE. So what? Two, three, mate, if someone tried to stop me goinā€¦
He shakes his head/puffs out his cheeks.
PUGH. What?
PIDGE. I wouldnā€™t ave it, like, Iā€™d kick right off.
PUGH. At three years old?
PIDGE. Yeah I would / yeah.
PUGH. Youā€™re three years old.
PIDGE. So what?
PUGH. You can hardly talk let alone / kick off.
PIDGE. Yeah Iā€™d find a way wouldnā€™t I
PUGH. Alright.
PIDGE. Na I would though
PUGH. You struggle with speaking now
PIDGE. As if, yer fuckinā€¦
Beat.
PUGH. Go on
PIDGE. Latvian.
PUGH. Good one. Youā€™ve been warned once
SMUDGE. I wouldna wanted to be there anyway I donā€™t think.
PIDGE. Course you would.
SMUDGE. Mmn.
PIDGE. What you talkin about, course you would
SMUDGE. Dunno.
PIDGE. Course you would, why not?
SMUDGE. Horrible ent they?
PUGH. Well. / Yeah.
PIDGE. Yeah they are yeah
SMUDGE. Knew it would be, but.
Beat.
PUGH. Yeah.
PIDGE. Yeah.
PUGH. Did you see his mum?
PIDGE. Yeah.
SMUDGE. Yeah.
Beat.
Fit.
PUGH. I meant the state of her.
SMUDGE. Oh. Yeah.
PU...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Original Production
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Epigraph
  8. Characters
  9. A Note on the Punctuation
  10. So Here We Are
  11. About the Author
  12. Copyright and Performing Rights Information