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The Acid Test
About this book
This has been the worst day of my life. So can you please get drunk with me? Dana, Ruth and Jess down shots to console the heart-broken, to comfort the anxious and just pass the time. Kicked out from the family home Jess's dad, Jim, invades the party with just as much recklessness as the girls. As the night passes and vodka bottles are emptied, Friday night in becomes high drama. An unruly new comedy asking if age equals maturity, Acid Test opened at the Royal Court in May 2011.
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Characters
DANA LORRE, 22
RUTH JOHNSTON, 21
JESSICA BANK, 21
JIM BANK, 57
SETTING
A first-floor London flatās living room;
A sofa in the centre with an about-to-break coffee table in front overloaded with magazines, cups and an ashtray. A pile of cushions serve as a chair to the side and a small TV faces the sofa. Behind the sofa is another table with ipod speakers on it. There are girlsā clothes and underwear drying on a clothes rack. The front door and a door to the kitchen are stage left while a corridor leading to the bedrooms and a door into the bathroom are stage right.
āIn the real dark night of the soul it is always 3 oāclock in the morning, night after nightā
SCENE ONE
Friday 9pm. Itās raining outside, in the empty flat you can hear running water, a clap of thunder then Laffy Taffy by D4L playing from the speakers. DANA LORRE emerges from the bedrooms wearing her bra and tracksuit bottoms. She dances around the room vaguely with a cigarette in her mouth and pours herself a glass of wine. She goes into the bathroom, the flat is empty again. She runs out with only a towel obviously having just got into the bath and disappears down the corridor, she returns with a razor and runs back into the bathroom and shuts the door. The doorbell rings, no response. It rings again and again. Someone starts bashing the door.
DANA: (From the bathroom.) Iām in the bath
GIRLāS VOICE: (From outside the door.) Itās me! Itās me!
DANA: Iām in the fucking bath
GIRLāS VOICE: Dana! Itās me
DANA: Iām in the bath!
GIRLāS VOICE: Dana! Itās me
DANA: I know itās you, Iām in the bath
GIRLāS VOICE: Dana?
DANA: Oh my fucking God!
RUTH JOHNSTON enters using her keys, a total mess and wet from the rain.
RUTH: Are you in the bath?
DANA: How did you get in?
RUTH: My key
DANA: Then why did you ring the door?
RUTH: I couldnāt find it, Iā¦I didnāt wantā¦can I come in?
DANA: No what the fuck is the matter with you?
RUTH: Dana Dana please
DANA: Iām in the bath
The handle turns.
DANA: Ruth! Iām naked; Iām in the bath, fuck off you fucking lesbian
RUTH: Get out then
DANA: Ruth you know the lockās broke. Donāt come in
RUTH opens the door, eyes closed.
DANA: What the fuck Ruth? You are so fucking, fucking annoying youā¦pass me the towel
RUTH gropes on the floor, looking for the towel and throws it into the bathroom.
RUTH: Okay?
DANA: (Comes out into the flat towel wrapped around her.) What do you want?
RUTH: Can I have a bath?
DANA: What?
RUTH: Dana please I have had the worst fucking night of my life
DANA: What? Why? Whatās the matter with you? (Turns the music off.) You look angry
RUTH: Iām not angry! Iām upset!
DANA: Why?
RUTH: I donāt want to talk about it
DANA: You just dragged me out the fucking bath
RUTH: Can you stop swearing at me?
DANA: Can you let me have a bath?
RUTH: Twix broke up with me
DANA: Oh shit
RUTH: Happy? Happy? Youāre so fuckingā¦Iām soā¦(Starts to cry.)
DANA: Oh Ruth sorry, I didnāt know, donāt cryā¦ummā¦
DANA pulls the towel around her and gives RUTH a hug, RUTH wails, DANA is torn between sympathy and concern for her towel, RUTH pulls away.
RUTH: Youāre wet
DANA: So are you
RUTH: Itās raining
DANA: Sit down
RUTH: I donāt want to sit down
DANA: What do you want? You can have a bath
Ruth āYouāve used the hot w...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Characters
- SCENE ONE