- 64 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Anyone's Guess How We Got Here
About this book
Anyone's Guess How We Got Here is a road-trip. A haunted house. A bedtime story. A photo-album. An 80s fantasy film. A demolition project. A riot. Barrel Organ's new play about the long-lasting trauma of debt and eviction.
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SCENE ONE
MC | Two people, in a car. |
OC | Driving down an A-road. At night. |
MC | Heading to a funeral. |
OC | In the middle of the midlands. |
MC | Entering Robin Hood country. |
OC | The home of Major Oak. |
MC | The thousand-year-old tree. |
OC | Three trees sprouting from one base. |
MC | Tangled up in each other. |
OC | As thick as a – |
MC | Tree trunk. |
OC | Redundant comparison. |
MC | It looks like three sisters growing old in the place they were born. |
OC | Fuck off does it. |
No, it looks like three witches sealed in bark. | |
MC | If you take trees as female. Mother Nature, all that. |
OC | It’s so old, the branches are held up by scaffolding. |
MC | To stop it collapsing under its own weight. |
OC | It’s being preserved. |
MC | It’s not yet dead. |
OC | They say this is the tree he used as a hide-out. |
MC | The man in the green tights. |
OC | Where they buried the loot. |
MC | Before it was re-distributed to those who needed it. |
OC | You know the saying. |
MC | No. Which one. |
OC | Take from – |
MC | Take from the rich. |
OC | Give to the poor. That tree has seen it all go down. |
MC | If you believe the stories. |
OC | You can choose to. |
MC | Here’s one. |
OC | Another story. |
MC | Happening now. Imagine. |
OC | They’re driving over what was once Sherwood Forest. Where the most famous story of taxation happened. |
MC | Might have happened. |
OC | There’s no off-shore tax-haven in the woods, with a bow and fucking arrow in your face. |
MC | Come on, back to them. |
OC | The two people, in the car. They’re heading to the funeral. For – |
MC | No. |
*Pause* | |
I mean, not yet. | |
OC | Heading to a funeral – |
MC | Before that. |
OC | Alright. |
MC | Tomorrow, the funeral. Tonight, they’re making a detour. To a house – |
OC | A terrace – |
MC... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Characters
- Scene One
- Scene Two
- Scene Three
- Scene Four
- Scene Five
- Epilogue
- Notes on Production