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Brothers Wreck
Jada Alberts
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Mob can't survive like that, you can't survive like that. We gotta talk to each other, as hard as it is, 'cause I guarantee you, that phone will ring and you'll have to say goodbye again.%##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##%This play is about life.%##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##%It begins with a death: on a hot morning under a house in Darwin, Ruben wakes to find his cousin Joe hanging from the rafters. What follows is the story of a family, buffeted by constant tragedy, holding itself togetherāas their people have done generation after generation. This play asks us: how do we deal with death? And how many other people does it take for each of us to live? Little by little, Ruben's family brings him back from the edge.
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TeatroSCENE ONE
Six months ago. Dawn. August, during the build-up.
RUBEN is sitting in the hallway, against a wall. ADELE enters, dressed in basketball shorts and a singlet. Sheās just woken up. She sees RUBEN.
ADELE: Youāre up early.
She crosses to the table and takes a cigarette and lighter from a packet. She puts the cigarette in her mouth but doesnāt light it. She goes to the kitchen and boils the kettle.
Jesus, this heat is killin me.
She waits for the kettle to boil, makes a tea. Milky, two sugars.
You slept?
She heads outside with her tea and cigarette.
Why you sittin there, weirdo?
As ADELE exits, RUBEN attempts to say something to her, nothing comes out. ADELE gets outside and we hear her mug hit the ground. She stumbles back inside, shocked, stunned.
Joe! Jarrod, Jarrod, Jarrod! Jarrooood!
JARROD: [offstage] Whaaat?
ADELE: Joe, heāsā¦ hurry! Hurry!
ADELE looks at RUBEN.
JARROD: [offstage] What?
ADELE: Jarroood!
JARROD: [offstage] Iām up, what?!
JARROD enters.
ADELE: Hurryā
ADELE rushes outside, JARROD follows behind her.
JARROD: Whatās going /
ADELE: Help me lift himā
JARROD: No, no, no, Joeā
ADELE: Get a knife. [Beat.] Knife, Jarrod!
JARROD enters running. He goes to the kitchen, grabs a large knife and runs back outside.
Hurry!
We hear a plastic chair dragged, repositioned. JARROD stands on it and tries to cut his friend Joe out of a makeshift noose.
JARROD: Itās not working. Fuckā¦ the sinkersā
ADELE: I canāt hold himā
JARROD: Knifeās bluntā¦ [He drops the knife.] Fuck!
ADELE: [calling to RUBEN] Ruben?! Grab another knife!
JARROD runs in, grabs another knife, runs out again.
I canāt hold / him!
JARROD: Iāve got him, Iāve got him!
They swap position. We hear JARROD lift Joeās body. ADELE stands on the plastic chair. Sounds of a knife cutting through net.
Hurry, Del.
ADELE: Itās not cutting!
JARROD: Ruben!
ADELE: Fuuuuck!
JARROD: Can you untie it?
ADELE: I donāt know.
JARROD: Try.
Beat.
ADELE: My hands.
JARROD: You can do it.
ADELE: Itās tangled.
JARROD: Give it a sec.
ADELE: Iām making it worse. Fuck!
The second knife drops to the ground.
Oh my God, I canātā¦
ADELE is crying.
JARROD: Ruben! [To ADELE] Oi, itās okayā
ADELE: Itās not fucking okayā
JARROD: / Ruben!
ADELE: I gotta get downā
JARROD: Lift him, / Iāll tryā
ADELE: [sobbing] Get him down, Jarrod, get him down ā
JARROD: RUBEN!
ADELE: Get him down, get him downā
JARROD walks into the house and looks at RUBEN.
[Crying] Godā¦ Jooooe!
RUBENās broken in the corner, hiding his head. JARROD leaves him, goes back outside.
JARROD: Come inside, Del.
ADELE: No, no, I wonātā
JARROD: Come inside, / bub, now.
ADELE: No, noā
JARROD: Thereās nothing / we can doā
ADELE: Get him down, Jarrod, get himā¦ Put me down, arsehole!
JARROD enters carrying ADELE over his shoulder.
JARROD: Stop, Delā
ADELE: Put me down!
JARROD puts ADELE down, stands in her way, blocking her.
JARROD: Thereās nothing we can doā
ADELE: I wonāt leave him out there alone.
JARROD: Heās gone, bub.
ADELE: Iām not leaving him!
ADELE tries to get past JARROD. He holds her, restrains her, but she manages to make ground towards the door.
JARROD: Rubenā
ADELE: Move, / donāt leave himā
JARROD: Shut the door!
ADELE: Joey! / Joe!
JARROD: / Ruben!
RUBEN stands.
ADELE: Fucking / move!
JARROD: Shut the door, Ruben!
ADELE: Let me / go!
RUBEN rushes towards the door.
JARROD: Ruben, SHUT THE FUCKING DOOR!
RUBEN finally slams the door shut.
SCENE TWO
Six months later. Itās April, the beginning of the dry season.
RUBEN sits outside his old house, Balnba Road, iPod on, white earpieces in his ears. We hear the track as he would: āRule the Worldā by Jimblah. He stands under a street lamp looking at the old house. He has a cap on backw...