- 142 pages
- English
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Cathy Come Home
About this book
Sandford's 'Cathy Come Home' details the issue of homelessness and the life of a young woman in 1960s London as she moves from her own home, to council accomodation, and finally emergency accomodation for the homeless before being evicted and her children taken into care. It is a harrowing and emotive screenplay of the '60s television docu-drama which caused social upheaval upon its transmission and caused the homeless charity 'Shelter' to be formed. Although often distressing to read, I cannot recommend this book highly enough as it truly will change the way you look at the issue. Perhaps the most tragic thing of all is the preface to the re-printed edition which discusses how the issue of homelessness is now worse today than it was when Sandford decided to document it with this amazing play.
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CATHY COME HOME
screenplay
A YOUNG GIRL stands by the entrance to the motorway, waiting for a lift.
She shifts from one foot to the other, walks a little, impeded by her ‘smart’ shoes, turns round as lorries or cars pass.
She’s evidently been left here by another car that brought her this far. She’s young, pretty, and with an air of excitement about her; freed at last from ties to her family, heart-whole, at the age of consent, but unconsenting as yet, exultant yet shy. She carries a change of clothès, shoes, etc. in a parcel.
With a hiss of its steam brakes a lorry draws to a stop ahead of her.
CATHY moves towards it. The door swings open; the DRIVER leans out.
DRIVER. Well, well, well, where we going then? Touring?
CATHY. Where you going?
DRIVER. Motorway.
She looks him over a moment, friendly, yet shy, then says, reckless, trusting him;
CATHY. O.K.
She climbs in, inexpertly, throwing her parcel up first. The door shuts. The lorry begins to move off. We see CATHY through windscreen, as she gazes ahead, trees, hills, reflected in windscreen, and the DRIVER glances at her as the lorry gains speed, sizing her up.
We hear the voice of;
CATHY. Well, I was a bit fed up … didn’t seem to be much there for me … you know how these little towns are … one coffee bar … it was closed on a Sunday.
The DRIVER is respecting CATHY’S silence, but liking her;
DRIVER. Was you by any chance interested in music?
The DRIVER leans to switch on the lorry radio, so that we have tinny music for the journey as it continues.
We hear the voice of;
CATHY. … didn’t even tell them I was going … I sent them a card when I got down there …
The lorry approaches the big city. The lorry passes through subtopia and the dingy down town area, which is to be CATHY’S home; the city with its hopes, heartlessness, excitement, squalor.
CATHY. That house over there … that one with the broken steps, that’s where I went for the room, and the fella tried to practically rape me! … Where did I get a room in the end? Oh, yeah, down there, Mantua Street. Three pound a week.
They pass a garage.
That’s where I got my first job—petrol pump girl … I was mad in a way in those days … suppose you could say I was bored, wanted a bit of adventure … some adventure.
By an urban stream, half stream, half sewer
REG and CATHY are walking.
REG. They’re all travellin in hearses, you see Cath, to this what they call unusual supper party. Then the chandelier falls on him don’t it, he...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface to Cathy Come Home
- INTRODUCTION
- CREDITS
- CATHY COME HOME screenplay
- THE STORY BROUGHT UP TO DATE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Copyright