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Carl Grose: Plays One
Superstition Mountain; Horse Piss For Blood; 49 Donkeys Hanged; The Kneebone Cadillac
- 392 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Carl Grose: Plays One
Superstition Mountain; Horse Piss For Blood; 49 Donkeys Hanged; The Kneebone Cadillac
About this book
Bringing together five plays exploring our notions of family, myth, death, truth and the ever-fluctuating nature of reality, Carl Grose: Plays One celebrates the possibilities of theatre and humanity's desperate need to tell stories in order to survive. This collection includes Grose's blood-splattered love letter to the theatre, Grand Guignol, plus a quartet of anarchic Cornish-set comedies: Superstition Mountain, Horse Piss For Blood, 49 Donkeys Hanged and The Kneebone Cadillac.
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Information
Superstition Mountain was first performed by o-region on 9th September, 2009 at The Drum Theatre, Plymouth.
CAST
Slim Gunwallow | Simon Harvey |
Dwayne Gunwallow | Dan Harvey |
Mark Gunwallow | Brett Harvey |
CREATIVE TEAM
Director | Carl Grose |
Producer | Simon Harvey |
Set Designer | Laura McKenzie |
Costume Designer | Tracey Dawn Stevens |
Sound and Music | Wayne Chudley |
Lighting Designer | Alex Wardle |
Film | Mark Jenkin |
Set Construction | Alex Rogers |
Publicity / Photography | Olly Berry |
Stage Manager / Operator | John Crooks & Simon Ramsden |
Production Assistant | Ben Carlin |
Programme Design | Natalie Grose |
Additional voices | Helen Tiplady & Mark Jenkin |
Loan of cowboy boots, Bowie knife & Hank LPs | Ian Grose |
Part One
In the darkness, handheld camcorder footage:
An extreme close-up of a young man, MARK GUNWALLOW; filthy, haggard, bloodied, surrounded by darkness.
MARK: (To camera.) So. Welcome to Supersition Mountain... and the Lost Dutchmanās Gold Mine... Thatās Slim. Eās unconscious. Again. Dwayneās done a runner... Behind me is Elias Bolt, a treasure hunterā¦ eās deadā¦ thereās the goldā¦ and there ā I dunno if you can see? ā are some deadly poisonous rattlesnakesā¦ say āello snakesā¦
Rattlesnakes rattle.
MARK: (Turning camera on himself.) And Iām Mark Gunwallowā¦ and I thinkā¦ I am aboutā¦ to die ā
The image cuts out.
Sound of thunder and continuous rain.
An old granite-built house in St. Day, Cornwall.
The living room is gloomy, sparse, tidy. A small dining table with three chairs. On the table is a biscuit tin, and a jar with a slit made in the lid. Thereās a few coins in it. At the back is the entrance to the kitchen and the outside world. A few coats hang nearby.
Thereās another doorway leading upstairs. On the back wall, an old framed sepia photograph of two men standing either side of the entrance to a mine in a harsh desert landscape. Elsewhere, an old cabinet record player, with a stack of country & western records sat proudly on display.
SLIM (30) holds a letter. He studies it with deep concern. SLIM hears someone coming through the kitchen. He slips the letter in his wallet.
Enter MARK (20) from outside, wearing a bright yellow raincoat. Heās soaked.
MARK: Sorry Iām late.
SLIM: āfuck you bin?
MARK: Seth kept me on to clean the pumps.
SLIM: Didnā you tell āim you ad to go?
MARK: Yeh but you know Seth ā eās a twat.
SLIM: Thass yer uncle yer talkin about there.
MARK takes his coat off, flaps the rain off it, hangs it up next to the others, goes to biscuit tin, finds crumbs.
MARK: Eās gone downhill, then?
SLIM: See for yourself. Or did ya just pop round for a fuckin biscuit?
Enter DWAYNE (25) from upstairs.
DWAYNE: āfuck you bin?
SLIM: Eās bin workin, Dwayne, leaveām alone.
DWAYNE: Fuckin āworkinā.
SLIM rattles the swear jar in front of DWAYNE.
DWAYNE: Whassis?
SLIM: Swear Jar. Father dunāt want no cussin whilst e passes.
I said no swearin. Us? You gotta be fuckin jokin. But e was adamant so cough up.
DWAYNE: (Fishes for a coin, inserts it. To MARK:) You get my Chinese?
MARK: Didnāt āave time.
DWAYNE: What the fuck?
The swear jar rattles. DWAYNE fishes, inserts.
DWAYNE: You know I kent be seen on the fuckin streets of St. Day!
Swear jar r...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Superstition Mountain
- Grand Guignol
- Horse Piss For Blood
- 49 Donkeys Hanged
- The Kneebone Cadillac