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- English
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The Here and This and Now
About this book
'I just don't know if I'm ever happy. Like, really truly happy. Even if you sent me up to space, by day four I'd be worrying if I had enough stuff on my Kindle...'
What makes us truly happy? Health? Family? Professional success? Blasting it in the gym? Romance? Pills?
Or are we ignoring the bigger stuff? Real life-changing stuff that can devastate the world if we just keep ignoring it.
Glenn Waldron's darkly surprising comedy The Here and This and Now takes a look at the pharmaceuticals business, the salaryman and woman, and the quest for happiness. It premiered at Theatre RoyalPlymouth in March 2017.
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NIALL This?
Beat.
Oh it’s.
Nothing.
Laughs.
Bit daft, really.
Beat.
My son.
Five years old and everything’s –
Tractors.
Diggers and tractors and –
Tractor wallpaper.
Tractor cartoons. Spaghetti shapes –
Laughs again.
Got in a bit of trouble actually.
With the boss.
Jack – my son – he’s been a bit, bit ill recently –
Oh nothing serious. Just a bit, fluey and.
Which is rubbish when it’s the holidays and all
the other kids are out there playing and you’re stuck inside.
the other kids are out there playing and you’re stuck inside.
Do you remember that, Jan?
So yesterday he’s finally on the mend and he’s been cooped up for, like, two weeks. And he’s looking forward to going to the park and seeing all his pals and all that.
But then Martine, that’s my wife, she gets it too, this flu-thing.
Beat.
Tell me about it!
And I’m just about to leave for work.
Yesterday.
Got my car keys and I’m halfway out the door and, and then I see him.
See him sitting there in front of some cartoon.
Bored witless, poor little –
And I’m standing there and, and I get this idea in my head.
I get this idea in my head and something in me just –
Clicks.
And I think, I think – excuse my French, Jan – sod it.
Sod it.
Because it’s not right, y’know? It’s really not right.
And I phone up the boss and – I mean I could pretend that I’m sick.
Could say I’ve caught it off the nipper or whatever but then I think, know what, Jan? Know what – today I’m gonna be honest.
Not gonna sneak around.
And I phone up my boss and say to him, ‘Michael.’
I say ‘Michael, I know it’s all chocka. I’ve know I’ve got appointments in Bracknell and Bicester and Lord-knows-where-else lined up but they’re going to have to wait because actually I’m not working today.
I say ‘Michael, I know it’s all chocka. I’ve know I’ve got appointments in Bracknell and Bicester and Lord-knows-where-else lined up but they’re going to have to wait because actually I’m not working today.
I’m not working today because I’m going to spend some time with my family, fella.
I’m spending the day with my son.’
And Michael’s pretty mad obviously but y’know – stuff it.
Stuff it.
Because – sometimes I think some things are more important than work.
Don’t you think, Jan?
And so. So we jump in the car and we head up the M5 and all the way, Jack’s so revved up. Like ‘Where we going, Dad where we going?’
And, truth be told, I think he’s just happy spending some time with his old man, y’know?
Truth be told, think he’s almost forgotten what I look like recently.
Martine too.
And then, then we turn on to the A38 and we turn around the corner and – there it is. We’re there.
Beat.
Diggerland.
No really, it’s a place. M5, Junction 27.
It actually exists!
It’s just all these diggers and tractors and – but Jack’s face.
Jack’s face when we come round the corner and he sees where we are.
His face is just –
Yeah....
Table of contents
- Cover
- Original Production
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Characters
- Part A: A Presentation
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information