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Lost At Sea
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A storm is brewing in a small fishing village. A young woman returns home, searching for answers about her father's death. But as she begins to weave together the strands of her past, a mysterious force unravels family secrets. Lost at Sea journeys through a labyrinth of myth and memory in an epic tale spanning forty years of the fishing industry. Featuring the voices of fishermen and their families in their own words - with music, songs and Scots language – it is the lyrical and powerfully evocative story of a North-East fishing family. Inspired by the loss of playwright Morna Young's fisherman father, Lost at Sea is a personal tribute to the fishing communities of Scotland.
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ACT 1
SCENE 1
A darkened stage.
A single spotlight shows a sparse table and two chairs. KEVIN sits in one, arms folded. SHONA sits opposite.
She is flustered. She struggles to take off her jacket then rakes through her bag pulling out a notebook, pens and a diary. Finally, she retrieves a dictaphone which she places squarely on the table. She presses the record button.
A breath.
SHONA Okay.
A beat.
KEVIN Ye’r a journalist.
SHONA I was.
KEVIN Is this gan tae be in the paper?
SHONA This? About my dad?
No. This is for me.
KEVIN Why the dictaphone?
SHONA To remember.
A beat.
KEVIN Whit do ye want from me?
SHONA The truth.
A sudden change of atmosphere, the stage engulfed by the sound and sight of the sea.
We see an abandoned wooden boat with SKIPPER perched on the side; a fisher, ragged and worn. Behind are the CHORUS; the voice of the community, of the ocean, of the dead.
ALL Ye dream o the sea
the dark murky watter,
Ye long tae be free
fae the sound o time.
Ye’r tangled an trapped
in a tentacled bind,
Death is the shadow
drownin yer mind.
SKIPPER addresses the CHORUS whilst pointing at SHONA.
SKIPPER She hears yer voices at nicht.
The VOICES echo.
VOICES 1. Ye’ll niver find the truth.
2. Ye’r wastin yer time.
6. Tis a wild place oot in the dark watters.
3. Fit happens at the sea, stays at the sea.
4. She’s lookin fer answers.
5. Trawlin. That’s whit she’s dein.
1. Stirrin it up.
7. Stickin her nose in.
ALL We should be left in peace.
The CHORUS turn away. SHONA is upset.
SKIPPER Look fit ye’v deen!
Salt tears –
Teeny wee drappies.
Harmless.
Salt watter –
An ocean.
Deadliest force on Earth.
D’ye ken, I niver really understood why they caad it ‘the Earth’. Maste o it’s watter efter aa.
(Sung.) Oh the sea, the sea,
A fishing life, sae free.
I robbed fae the ocean
And noo she’s taken me!
C’mon quine… man versus the ocean. Fa wis gan tae win that ane?
VOICES 1. Ye’r haverin, lass.
5. Send a wee lamby tae the slaughter, it’s nae gan tae come back noo, is it?
4. Fit chance did we hae?
The sea grows louder; thrashing, crashing, lashing. The wind swells. Rain, thunder. A storm is brewing.
As SKIPPER leads the CHORUS, the voices whisper and echo like the wind.
SKIPPER The beastie braks banes; smashin, crashin, lashin.
She’ll pound ye, astound ye, ground ye tae a fragment –
Crack, fracture, splinter –
crushin, pulverisin, shatterin yer existence, slammin yer soul.
VOICES 2. … it’s a dangerous animal, ken?
4. Flat calm aey day an batterin ye stupit the next.
SKIPPER Och, we used tae tame her, we did –
Pray tae her, slave fer her,
whistle her some wind,
worship the waves an belittle the spirits o the land.
VOICES 6. You grow up in a fishin community, ye go tae the fishin.
1. There’s nae choice.
2. I wisna feart when I wis younger. But as ye get auler… th...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Glossary