- 88 pages
- English
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Letters to Windsor House
About this book
A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people's mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance… Songs, politics, dodgy landlords and detective work: Another potentially felonious show by the award-winning Sh!t Theatre for Generation Rent.
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LETTERS TO WINDSOR HOUSE
Audience coming in.
Becca (B) & Louise (L) are sat on a sofa, talking to each other, drinking tea. Looking very comfortable and at home.
Audio: Heart’s ‘Alone’
Video: Shot from behind of B & L relaxing on the balcony of Windsor House, watching the pigeons through the pigeon netting.
The set is two large piles of cardboard boxes at the back of the stage. Next to the sofa, a mic on a stand on either side of the stage, and a disco ball in the centre behind the sofa. There is a cardboard postbox on either side of the stage. There is a colourful rug in front of the sofa. A projection screen to the back. The mics are connected to a loop pedal.
NB: words underlined are spoken in unison. Also we feel it important to mention that, unless the script says that we are dancing, we are not dancing.
The footnotes describe a slide photo seen by the audience, projected behind performers.
Lights change, video stops, audio down.
B & L stand up, go to mics and sing ‘Rule, Britannia!’ like bad brass instruments. (‘Berrr berrr berber!etc.) They then look at each other, semi-impressed.
B: Getting there.
L: (To Jen in tech box.) Take it away Jen.
Audio: Karaoke version of ‘Who Will Buy?’ from Oliver!
B: The area of Manor House, N4 North London is not named after a manor house. It is named after a pub.1 The Manor House pub.2
L: Built in 1832 and visited by local residents Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens. Sorry, visited by local residents, comma, Queen Victoria3, Cambridge comma, and Charles Dickens.4
B: Who had a spritzer.5
L: By the 1950s the area was mostly council housing.6
B: The largest council estate was called Woodberry Down. You might recognise it from Steven Spielberg’s 90s smash hit Schindler’s List.
Audio: ‘Up In Da Hood N4’ (a homemade music video by local gangs, uploaded to YouTube) with pics of Tweets from the local police about the estate in Schindler’s List.
B & L hop on the spot in a circle.
Up in da hood up up in da hood
Up in da hood up up in da hood
Audio: Karaoke version of ‘Who Will Buy?’ from Oliver!
B: (Into mics.) We live in Windsor House.
L: Not that Windsor House, this Windsor House.
B: Windsor House is in Manor House, N4. We moved into Windsor House on 29th October 2013.
L: Becca hadn’t seen it before the day we moved in. She cried. A lot.
B: I’m fine now.
L: We each pay £467 a month rent for one bedroom and the shared kitchen.7 And bathroom.8
B: Our flat is on the second floor of this block of council flats. We are surrounded by three other blocks – all four are un-ironically named after Royal palaces: Buckingham,9 Balmoral,10 Holyrood11 and Windsor.12
L: Our flat is dark but what it lacks in visuals it makes up for in scent and sound.
B & L take mics from stands and walk to opposite sides of upstage. They look at each other to confirm the distance.
L: Our bedrooms are approximately this far apart from each other but we hear everything. Becca on Skype,
B: Louise listening to the Harry Potter audiobook she needs to sleep to,
L: Becca asking Reggie ‘who’s a cat?’
B: Ruth getting up at some ungodly hour of the morning (8.30am?), Louise asking Reggie ‘who’s a cat?’
L: Ruth asking Reggie ‘who’s a cat?’ The neighbours upstairs sweeping the floor in a way that can only be described as ‘tenderly’.
B & L walk with mics to sofa and both lounge comfortably.
B: That’s our playground.
L: Trampoline,13
B: Bit of wood,14
L: Squirrel on a swing.15 16
L: Our postcode is N4 2QA.
B: You can get amazing free bread here,17 here18 and here.19
L: Our closest late-night shop is Thondon supermarkets.20
B: Thondon.
L: Like London.
B: But with a ‘Th’.
L: It’s about thirty seconds away.
B: All of the Polish women who work at Thondon call Louise sweetheart (L looks smug) but we’ve been there for three ...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Andrew Haydon
- Foreword by Professor Jen Harvie
- Letters to Windsor House
- Epilogue by Ruth Turner