- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Lovelock's Dream Run
About this book
This play sets the well-known events of Jack Lovelock's Berlin Olympics in parallel with a conservative boarding school in New Zealand today.
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Preshow
Slides 1a-e: Jackās smiles, alternate.
Music from the show plays, ie: āThese Foolish Thingsā, the theme to Brideshead Revisited, āDeutschlandā, āGod Save the Kingā and the āMarseillaiseā.
Scene One: The Boysā High Playing Field
Slide 2: Lovelockās Oakāclose up.
HOWARD is wearing a perfectly fitting Boysā High School summer uniform. He sings to himself part of āThese Foolish Thingsā while picking up acorns and putting them in a bucket.
HOWARD:
Oh will you never let me be
Oh will you never set me free
The ties that bound us are all around us
Slide 1a: Jackās smile
Thereās no escape that I can see.
Pause.
These foolish things remind me of you.
To audience: Itās a charming smile, donāt you think? Pause. Hmm? Pause. Well, I think itās charming. I used to walk around Intermediate imitating Jackās smile. He strolls around with a fixed grin acknowledging imaginary people. Widening the grin with his fingers: Course other kids thought I was mental. But people thinking I was mental wasnāt exactly news.
Slide 2: Lovelockās Oakāclose up.
A ragged group of third formers enter marching badly. They are harangued by a prefect, PIKE.
PIKE: Keep your dressing!
Some third formers check their dressing and lose time.
But stay in step! Left, left, left, right, left. Leftā
NICK still canāt get in step.
Donāt get up his bum. You, whatās your handle? Pause. Whatās your handle?
NICK: I havenāt got a handle.
PIKE: Your name, have you got a name?
NICK: Nick.
PIKE: No, your second name?
The other boys have been marching on the spot.
Halt, you other idiots.
They halt badly.
NICK: Huriwai.
PIKE: Well Huriwai, you can go and count acorns with that other useless turd, Curtis. Way you go.
NICK walks over to HOWARD.
You other turds, attention! By the left, quick march. Left, left, left, right, left.
HOWARD: F...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- First Performance
- Production Note
- Characters
- Slides
- Preshow
- Copyright