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Out of Love
About this book
A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.
Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That's what happens when you're best friends forever.
But when Lorna gets a place at university, and Grace gets pregnant, they suddenly find themselves in starkly different worlds. Can anything bridge the gap between them?
Elinor Cook's play Out of Love was first produced in 2017 by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, in a co-production with Theatr Clywd and the Orange Tree Theatre. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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# 1
A scrub of land in a town in the North East of England.
LORNA is scratching her head vigorously.
GRACEStop scratching.
LORNA snatches her hand away.
GRACE turns away for a moment.
Furtively, LORNA scratches her head again.
I saw that.
LORNASorry.
GRACEIt makes it worse.
LORNA folds her hand in her lap.
She drums her feet on the ground.
LORNAArgh but itās so itchy!
GRACEHere.
GRACE takes LORNAās hands.
She sits on them.
Now you canāt.
LORNA breathes deeply.
GRACE peers at LORNAās head.
I can see them.
LORNAWhat?
GRACEOn your head.
LORNANo you canāt.
GRACELook.
GRACE leans over and plucks something from LORNAās scalp.
There.
See?
See?
LORNA looks.
Itās alright.
Iāve got them as well.
Iāve got them as well.
GRACE extracts something from her scalp.
Here.
They look at it together.
They eat our blood.
Look.
When I squash himā¦
Look.
When I squash himā¦
LORNADonāt.
GRACEThatās my blood coming out.
I love blood.
Do you dare me to eat it?
I love blood.
Do you dare me to eat it?
GEORGE enters.
He looks at the girls warily.
GEORGEHave you still got them?
GRACEWhat?
GEORGEI canāt play with you if youāve still got them.
GRACEYouāve got them too.
GEORGENo I donāt.
GRACEAll the kids in the cottages have got them.
LORNAHello George.
LORNA gives GEORGE a winning smile.
GEORGEAlright, Lorna.
GRACE looks at GEORGE and LORNA.
GRACEShall we play weddings?
GEORGENot again.
LORNAYes.
GEORGEAlright.
GRACEWhich one of us today?
GEORGELorna.
GRACEThatās not allowed.
You married her last time.
You married her last time.
LORNAIt is allowed.
GRACEAlright then.
But get to the good bit.
But get to the good bit.
GEORGE approaches LORNA.
LORNA holds her breath.
GEORGE is about to lean in and kiss her.
You have to do it with your tongue.
GEORGEWhat?
LORNAGrace.
GRACEThatās the proper way.
LORNA and GEORGE look at GRACE.
They look at each other.
GEORGE sticks out his tongue.
LORNA looks at GRACE.
GRACE nods.
LORNA sticks out her tongue.
LORNA and GEORGE lick one anotherās tongues experimentally.
They break away.
Now take your knickers off.
LORNANo.
GRACEThatās what happens at the end of a wedding.
LORNAButā¦
GRACEGo on.
Do it.
Do it.
Miserably, LORNA removes her knickers.
GEORGE and LORNA look at GRACE, awaiting further instructions.
Now you look like your mum.
LORNANo I donāt.
GRACESheās running around without any knickers on.
Thatās why theyāre getting a divorce.
Thatās why theyāre getting a divorce.
LORNAThey arenāt.
GRACEWhere are you going?
LORNAHome.
GRACETell George youāre sorry.
Then you can go.
Then you can go.
LORNAI wonāt.
GRACEGo on.
Tell him.
Tell him.
LORNAIām sorry.
GRACEAnd you give her a slap.
GEORGENoā¦
GRACEYes.
He slaps LORNA gently on the face.
No not there.
On her bum.
On her bum.
GEORGEBut ā
GRACEGo on.
GEORGE slaps LORNA on her bum.
And again.
GEORGE slaps LORNA on her bum again.
LORNAOw.
GRACETell her you won...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Characters
- Out of Love
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information