
- 128 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Little Light
About this book
A dark, volatile new play that asks if we can ever let go.
Reminiscing.
Once a year to tell stories.
To share little bits of our little lives.
A house by the sea. Teddy wants more light. He's knocked that staircase down. Alison is soaked through. She's livid. Clarissa's ready to burst. They can't keep meeting like this.
Reminiscing.
Once a year to tell stories.
To share little bits of our little lives.
A house by the sea. Teddy wants more light. He's knocked that staircase down. Alison is soaked through. She's livid. Clarissa's ready to burst. They can't keep meeting like this.
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Information
| There are no stairs. | |
| ALISON has just walked in. She is soaking wet. | |
| TEDDY can hear a bird. | |
| TEDDY | Think of the light. |
| . | |
| ALISON | Fuck. |
| TEDDY | Imagine all that light. |
| . | |
| ALISON | Fuck. |
| TEDDY | You know how people always talk about light just sort of |
| Flooding | |
| a room – on on [TV] and in in [films] and I’m I’m sceptical to be honest because it’s well it’s it’s bollocks isn’t it – but | |
| But it does. | |
| It drenches it. We are literally Wading in light. | |
| ALISON | . |
| You are an absolute tit | |
| TEDDY | It’s |
| Incredible. | |
| ALISON | Are you drunk? |
| TEDDY | I was thinking about spiral staircases |
| ALISON | Seriously – are you a little bit hammered? |
| TEDDY | You always said you wanted a spiral staircase |
| ALISON | What |
| TEDDY | So |
| ALISON | Seriously – when did |
| TEDDY | I wanted to give you a spiral staircase. |
| So. | |
| ALISON | That. Teddy. |
| Is a fucking Ladder | |
| TEDDY | It is a work in progress |
| ALISON | So. So let me get this. Let me. Because this is – so. You wanted to give me a spiral / staircase |
| TEDDY | / staircase, yes – yes I wanted to give |
| ALISON | So you ripped out my perfectly functioning staircase and you are – what – you are essentially Showing me a ladder I already had – and and – when the When did we even have a conversation about spiral fucking staircases |
| TEDDY | All the time – you talk about it All the time |
| ALISON | Are you – No I. When – When do |
| TEDDY | You talked about it three weeks ago |
| ALISON | No I |
| TEDDY | And in Venice. When we were in Venice you didn’t stop going on about |
| ALISON | You’re trying to wind me up – you are inexplicably trying to get a a |
| TEDDY | The whole way round that little shit piazza you |
| ALISON | Rise out of me for some unknown – We have never been to fucking Venice |
| TEDDY | Yes we have |
| ALISON | You have lost your Fucking Mind |
| TEDDY | We go all the time |
| ALISON | Jesus Christ |
| TEDDY | How would I know about the little shit piazza if We hadn’t been to Venice |
| ALISON | How would you know about the unspecific Italian word for Square you just dragged / out of your brain |
| TEDDY | / Are you thinking about the dinner parties? |
| ALISON | . |
| TEDDY sees the guests. Smiles at them. | |
| TEDDY | Are you thinking about the dinner parties? |
| ALISON | I’m thinking about my fucking stairs |
| TEDDY | It’s these WINDOWS. They’re Giants – and and it’s really funny |
| ALISON | is it |
| TEDDY | It’s really Stupid because I never really Noticed them before but they’re Ridiculous and We – We could throw these really really shit dinner parties and it wouldn’t matter because come sunset okay – come sunset we’d turn to our guests – our food-poisoned guests and be like FUCK YOU. Sunset. See that. Sunset. |
| ALISON | Right. |
| ALISON is close to tears. | |
| Are you | |
| Right. | |
| You. | |
| Because I’m just going to | |
| And pretend that none of that | |
| . | |
| I think this is. | |
| Nothing. Um. Nothing is really as it should be and. And. You are. Knocking my. | |
| And. | |
| And I’m. I’m. I think I’m. | |
| . | |
| TEDDY | It keeps banging into things |
| ALISON | Okay. |
| What. | |
| TEDDY | The light. |
| ALISON | . |
| The light | |
| TEDDY | Light. Yes. |
| ALISON | Teddy |
| TEDDY | It keeps. |
| It keeps banging into things – into stairs and walls and doors and and things | |
| The phone rings. | |
| and. And they just keep getting in the way. | |
| And. It was. | |
| The phone rings. | |
| It was | |
| The phone rings. | |
| It was | |
| The phone rings. | |
| It was | |
| The phone stops. | |
| It was | |
| Beep. | |
| A breath and a click. | |
| When you were gone – I couldn’t sleep – not at all, not even a bit actually and and I know people Say that but and it’s I’m I’m lying there and it’s like it just hit me, I keep thinking that if we just op... | |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Characters
- Little Light