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Static
About this book
Static is the story of a young woman who has lost her husband. Discovering a compilation tape that he made but never gave her, she becomes convinced it contains a secret message. What could the tape mean - and is he trying to communicate with her from beyond the grave?
Static fuses music, dialogue, sign language and audio description to explore our complex response to love and loss. It is steeped in a love of music from Sonic Youth to The Smiths, The Ramones to the Rakes and from Girls Aloud to the Goodies (we've all got guilty pleasures).
Static opened at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in February 2008, in a production by Suspect Culture and Graeae Theatre Company.
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Characters
CHRIS
JULIA
MARTIN
SARAH
This text is written to be performed bilingually.
Scenes with the same scene number are written to be performed simultaneously.
Within scenes:
Lines in bold are only signed and not spoken
Lines underlined are only spoken and not signed
Lines underlined and in bold are spoken and signed
Lines without additional formatting can be signed
and/or spoken
Lines underlined are only spoken and not signed
Lines underlined and in bold are spoken and signed
Lines without additional formatting can be signed
and/or spoken
here lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is… the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
Keep on playing our favourite song
Turn it up while you’re gone
It’s all I’ve got
When you’re in my head
And you’re in my head
So I need it
Queens of the Stone Age
Music coming through static.
1
An expectant silence.
CHRIS How do you get –
JULIA How do you get –
CHRIS From Johnny Cash
JULIA (Who’s Johnny Cash?)
MARTIN (Did she just say who’s Johnny Cash?)
CHRIS He’s a legend.
JULIA Okay from Johnny Cash to –?
MARTIN Nine Inch Nails!
SARAH The Clash! Easy easy!
CHRIS No and no.
JULIA (Why isn’t it ever music I know?)
MARTIN (How can you not know Johnny Cash?)
JULIA It’s just music –
MARTIN Ah but music isn’t just music –
ALL Music is also everything else!
CHRIS Johnny Cash to Hall and Oates.
SARAH To Hall and Oates?
MARTIN You’re taking the piss.
JULIA This is like Mornington Crescent.
CHRIS And in one move.
MARTIN In one move? Fuck!
JULIA Did Hall & Oates do ‘Solid as a Rock’?
MARTIN No, dear.
SARAH Hall & Oates are white soul, Julia. You know, (She attempts a little dance.) blue-eyed soul.
MARTIN
& CHRIS (Ad lib.) No! Don’t dance!
SARAH You’re so mean to me. I’m a great dancer.
MARTIN You look ill.
CHRIS He’s right, baby.
SARAH Hall & Oates don’t connect with anything. That’s the whole thing about Hall & Oates.
CHRIS Is that your final answer?
MARTIN No, hold on, work backwards. Were they in another band before they went solo?
CHRIS It won’t help you.
MARTIN Who produced them? Who discovered them? What label were they on?
JULIA Is it about facial hair?
MARTIN Julia! I believe it’s beer time! (She hits him, but she goes anyway.)
JULIA Cheeky bugger.
MARTIN And get one for yourself, darlin’.
CHRIS I’ll have to hurry you.
MARTIN Okay. Okay. Bluff.
SARAH Yes, bluff. There’s no connection.
CHRIS Final answer?
SARAH
& MARTIN Final answer.
CHRIS I got three words for you lo...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Biographies
- Suspect Culture
- Lines of Enquiry
- Graeae
- Every Seventh Word
- Static Set
- Notes on Design
- The Brilliant Moment
- Chris’s Promise
- White Noise / Empty Rooms
- Characters
- Chris’s Tape