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Every One
About this book
Mary, a mother of two, is doing the ironing one Saturday morning when she feels something on her shoulder. It's the beginning of a series of events that will change things for ever. For every one.
A re-imagining of Everyman, one of the oldest stories in English drama, Jo Clifford's bold and haunting play tells a deeply emotional and warmly funny story of a voyage into the heart of living ā and of what it means to lose the people we love.
Every One was first performed at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, in 2010, and was revived in a new production by Chris Goode & Company at Battersea Arts Centre, London, in 2016.
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ACT ONE
The family come onstage. MARY, JOE, MAZZ, KEVIN and the MOTHER. The MOTHER is in a wheelchair. Each go to their own space. And then there is a pause.
JOE | You first. |
MARY | Why me? |
JOE | Itās your play. |
MARY | I suppose it is. |
JOE | You always said ā |
MARY | Women should be more at the centre of things. I know. |
JOE | Here you are then. |
MARY | Yes. Well. |
Iāmā¦ | |
Iāmā¦ | |
Well itās hard to say, isnāt it, hard to explain who you are. | |
What would you say? | |
Iāll sayā¦ | |
Iāll just stick to the facts. | |
My name is Mary Jane Hunter Spring. | |
Hunterās my husbandās name but I didnāt want to lose my own. | |
So when we got married I just kind of tacked it on. | |
And itās a wee bit double-barrelled and pompous but I like it. | |
Andā¦ I live with my husband, Joe, short for Joseph, which he hates, so itās easy to wind him up if I need to, and heās a teacher and we have two children: Mazz whoās just left school, and wants to be a fashion designer, and Kev whoās about to go into sixth form and spends his whole life on the computer. | |
And we live in an ordinary kind of house. And itās a bit messy. | |
Weāre just normal people, really. So I donāt know what all the fuss is about. | |
And, well, I work as a tax inspector. Which isnāt all that normal I suppose. | |
For some reason our friends find it hilarious. | |
Watch out hereās the tax inspector. | |
Better stash the money away. | |
How about hiding... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Original Production
- āEvery Oneā by Maddy Costa
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- āBefore You Start to Readā by Jo Clifford
- Authorās Note
- Characters
- Every One
- About the Author
- Copyright