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a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)
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a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)
About this book
'It's not always all about you.'
Three couples.
What might be.
What once was.
What could have been.
debbie tucker green's play premiered in February 2017 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, in a production directed by the playwright.
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PART ONE
Scene One
A So is it –
B no.
A Is it that / you’re –
B No it is / not.
A so it’s
B there is no ‘it’s’ it’s nothing there’s nothing
A you’re not –
B no. Nothing. There isn’t.
Beat.
A My bad.
B Yeh.
A
B
B ‘My bad’ – piss off.
A I’ve always –
B no you haven’t.
A
B
B It’s not always all about you.
A Well. It usually is.
Isn’t it.
Beat.
…So there is –
B no there / isn’t.
A you’re –
B no
A you have a –
B (quietly) fuck / me.
A something’s not right
B you’re jumping / to –
A something about you’s not / right.
B (dry) really? Right. Me. Right.
A I’m just –
B is it? Me. Right.
(dry) My bad.
Beat.
You jump to conclusions. You always jump to – jumped to conclusions and wrong conclusions in leaps and fuckin bounds
A I know / you.
B come to conclusions where there aint none
A I do know / you.
B makin me make conclusions where there ent / one.
A I do still know you.
B Makin me want to make conclusions where there ent none to make, me makin them to make you feel better bout concluding there are conclusions, when there aint no conclusions to be had. Shit.
A …You ent never said something just to make me feel better.
B I ent lied to make you feel better / no.
A When have you ever said something to me to make me feel / better?
B I’m not gonna lie to you to make / you –
A Something considerate to – something mindful – and I’m not talking bout your / lies.
B you wanting me to say somethin to say anythin just so you can feel somethin – somethin good about y’self – no – and I don’t lie –
A thass one right there
B and I won’t say somethin just to say anything and lies ent got nuthin to do with what I do and don’t say what I will and won’t say what I won’t and don’t say – want to say and don’t – to you.
A I think –
B jump to conclusions –
A I think that –
B jump to your conclusions.
A I think that this is still about / me.
B (You) get me nervous to say anything me not knowin how you’d ‘conclude’ about it wrongly
A you’re nervous of nothing.
B Nervous of you
A couldn’t make you nervous of nuthin that you didn’t wanna be nervous of even if I wanted to.
B You wanted to.
A …I did not
B you tried to
A I do not
B you wanted to try to.
A I did (not). I –. I… No.
Beat.
You’ve never been nervous of me.
B Y’sound disappointed.
Beat.
A You’ve never been nervous of anything about me.
And there are no conclusions jumped to. Nothin in fuckin ‘leaps and bounds’ thank you – nuthin needed to be jumped to regarding you as you’re / quite –
B Here we / go.
A quite straightforward.
B Here. We. / Go.
A In a straightforward sort of way.
B That t...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Characters
- A Profoundly Affectionate, Passionate Devotion to Someone (– Noun)
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information