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Screwed
About this book
A gripping portrait of a destructive friendship between two women who push themselves to their limits.
Luce and Charlene are thirty-something binge-drinking soulmates. Clocking in after a heavy night out on the tiles, they pop caffeine pills and down miniatures on the factory floor, boasting about last night's sexual conquests.
When you're living for today, who cares about tomorrow?
Kathryn O'Reilly's play Screwed premiered at Theatre503, London, in 2016, in a co-production with KOR.
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Prologue
Dance music. We see a short burst of club. Alive, vibrant, full. LUCE and CHARLENE dancing hard, provocatively, possibly on podiums.
One
7 a.m. Early morning. A metal factory. Somewhere in West Byfleet, Surrey.
The steel shutters are up allowing us to see directly into the small, grey and cold factory floor. A distant but consistent noise of machinery from somewhere else in the factory. Over that, in this area of the factory, we hear a radio playing club music.
It is the morning after the night before. LUCE and CHARLENE, soulmates, and codependent, still in their clubbing gear underneath their work aprons. Hard-drinking survivors. Worse for wear, but this is standard. They are struggling but with a celebratory feel. They love the fact they can go out all night, get smashed, and come into work the next morning; they live and work to go out.
They are stood at their stations on the line, working. Putting plastic screw fittings on both ends of braided flexible hosing. They have been doing this job for so long, they could do it in their sleep.
There is a temp who they are teaching what to do.
CHARLENE | Cold morning. |
LUCE | Early morning. |
CHARLENE | Every morning. |
LUCE | Clocked in – |
CHARLENE | Shaking – |
LUCE | Radio on – |
CHARLENE | Shivering – |
LUCE | Kettle boiling – |
CHARLENE | Three coffees – |
L&C | Blah blah blah – |
CHARLENE | Pop the Pro Plus Extra – |
L&C | Blah blah blah – |
Addressing the temp now. | |
LUCE | Keep to your station. This is – |
L&C | Ours. |
LUCE | That is – |
L&C | Yours. |
LUCE | We go through this demonstration here – |
CHARLENE | Here. |
LUCE | Then you go over there and you get on with it. |
L&C | Right. |
Beat. | |
LUCE | On the line. |
CHARLENE | You put your gloves on. |
LUCE | I fought for those gloves so you better wear them. |
CHARLENE | Not everyone is down the nail parlour twice a week. |
LUCE | She wants rough man hands. |
CHARLENE | Yeah I do. A... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Characters
- Note on Play
- Screwed
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information