- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
I Run
About this book
A new Danish play by Line Mørkeby shining a light on how we talk about death. A dad loses his six-year-old daughter to cancer, and his world falls apart. He doesn't know how to process the life-shattering void following her premature death. He starts running to deal with his loss. Only, he can't stop. He runs through the pain, the memories and the grief to try and find the point where he no longer runs, but soars – the point where he is close to her again. I Run is a fast-paced, explosive and moving one-man play about running, grief and missing someone we love. About how you survive the death of your child. Why do we find it so hard to talk about death?
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DAY 0
Eternal weightless love till the end of time
I repeat
Eternal weightless love till the end of time
Eternal
Weightless
Love
I whisper your name
Ellen
I cry it to the heavens
Let her name colour you
Show me a rainbow over the hospital
Give me a sign she’s arrived safely
That she is somewhere
That she is
Now that she’s no longer here
The hospital
I have to get out of here
With the little that remains of her
A porter clicks off the brake on the hospital bed
And turns down the corridor to the lifts
The sheet
Clean
White
Crisp
The sheet
It’s my last glimpse of her
I have to get out of here
The porter shoves a key into a slot making the next lift stop
He stands waiting for a while, with Ellen
It’s my last glimpse of her
He rolls her into the lift
It’s my last glimpse of her
He stands next to her, for a moment, before the doors shut
It’s my last glimpse of her
It feels like an eternity
It’s my last glimpse of her
The porter shoves a key into a small box in the lift
So it goes directly down to the basement
So it doesn’t make any stops
So people visiting maternity wards
Don’t accidentally meet Ellen
Under the sheet
In the lift
On the way down
To a basement below the hospital
The doors shut
That
Is my last glimpse of her
I have to get out of here
DAY 0, PLUS 1 HOUR
It’s an hour since we left the hospital
Ellen’s Mum, Ellen’s younger sister and me
The three of us
Ellen is lying in a refrigerated room
Her belongings in a box
I
Carry that box
Ellen’s Mum can’t carry that box
The final drawings
A Sleeping Beauty DVD
Her clothes
Her clothes
It’s an hour since the porter rolled her away
It’s the first hour after the last hour
It’s an hour after for the very last time
It’s the first hour of eternity
I ought to sit down, indifferently
I ought to scream
I ought to cry
I ought to throw something and smash something
I ought to vanish with my vanished child
But I’m still here
I want to get out
Up
Who are you?
You, with my Ellen
Where are you?
I’m crying out to you
Let her name colour you
So I might see you
I will find you
You, carrying my eternal weightless love
The soul of my soul
In your arms
Out and up
Grant my legs the will
To place one foot in front of the other
Place one foot in front of the other
And the other in front of the one
One in front of the other
The other in front of the one
Again
One in front of the other
The other in front of the one
Again and again
A little faster
Until I’m running
...Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About Cut the Cord
- I Run