Flint premiered just before the 1970 General Election which was to replace the Labour Government of Harold Wilson. It is driven by the figure of Ossian Flint, a seventy-year old swinging vicar who believes in "crossing lines not drawing them" and espouses the romanticised Communism of Lenin and Guevara; In the BBC play The Bankrupt, Ellis Cripper, a woman aged fifty has become bankrupt through operating at "the dishonourable end of the system...capitalism"; An Afternoon at the Festival centres around a version of middle-aged man Leo Brent who is an extreme egoist and a failure in his personal relationships; Duck Song was first produced in the dying days of the failing Heath government and the characters represent a society in decline as the younger characters attempt to find a solution through feminism or psychiatry, it presents "a world to which one cannot relate, which one cannot control, which one can't understand, and which one can't manipulate"; The Arcata Promise centres around the attraction betwen an actor and an inexperienced girl and the destructive conclusion of such an attraction; Find Me returns to the theme of ideological conflict and Eastern Europe; Huggy Bear, a Yorkshire Television production that depicts Hooper, an infantile and philosophical dentist with a "failure to integrate".
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Mercer Plays: 2
Flint, The Bankrupt, An Afternoon at the Festival, Duck Song, The Arcata Promise, Find Me, Huggy Bear
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Mercer Plays: 2
Flint, The Bankrupt, An Afternoon at the Festival, Duck Song, The Arcata Promise, Find Me, Huggy Bear
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HUGGYBEAR
369
JAWS.
I
thought
you'd
give
inÂ
-
HOOPER.
BabsieÂ
just
aÂ
wee
nightmareÂ
now,Â
Jaws.
One
must
grit
the
chompers,
andÂ
opt
for
integrity.
JAWS.
Master
Joyce's
own
words,Â
Sir,
in
effect.
(Pause.)
Non
serviam.
(Pause.)
The
wilyÂ
Celt
-
HOOPER.
I
wish
I'd
known
Major
Trumpkins
-
JAWS.
AÂ
manÂ
of
yourÂ
stamp,Â
Sir.
(Raising
bis
glass).
How
many
goÂ
to
greetÂ
theirÂ
Maker
onÂ
the
rollingÂ
tide
ofÂ
an
orgasm?
The
Knights
Templars
of
happyÂ
prurience,
MrÂ
H.Â
A
selectÂ
company
-
JANINE.
Time
for
bye-byes
-
HOOPER.
WhatÂ
about
one
last
glug
of
scotch?
JAWS
half
fills
a
tumbler,
and
passes
itÂ
to
HOOPER.
He
holds
itÂ
up.
HOOPER.
Looking
atÂ
Ma,
overÂ
there.Â
Dreaming
I
bet,
of
sprightly
timesÂ
when
sheÂ
had
wind
and
limb.Â
Yes.Â
Peeking
at
Mums,
I
would
sayÂ
my
wistful
wishesÂ
haveÂ
neverÂ
included
the
inter-
uterine.Â
Never
soÂ
far
back,Â
Jaws.
Just
the
first
few
biffy
months.
Before
the
awful
nature
of
thingsÂ
became,
soÂ
to
speak,
as
clear
asÂ
the
teat
on
one's
bottle.
(Pause.)
I
wellÂ
remember
the
firstÂ
salutaryÂ
hint
of
things
to
come.Â
Astride
the
pot.
Refusing
to
perform.
(Pause.)
I
wouldÂ
peruse
a
woollyÂ
rabbit.
Batten
down
the
sphincters.
By
God,Â
Jaws,
IÂ
can
stillÂ
feelÂ
that
cold
ringÂ
of
enamel!Â
FaceÂ
red.Â
Lungs
constricted.
Totty
paws
beating
the
air.
(Pause.)
Helpless
oneÂ
is,
attended
by
what
seems
toÂ
beÂ
an
importunateÂ
giant.
(Pause.)
The
junction
of
potÂ
and
backside,Â
Jaws,Â
triggered
offÂ
the
firstÂ
word.
The
first
precious
unretractable
statement.
(Pause.)
UpÂ
it
came
-Â
a
gust
of
air,Â
twanging
and
strumming
the
virgin
vocalÂ
cords.
UpÂ
-
hup
hup
hup!
Out
with
it!Â
LetÂ
it
come!
The
gift
of
language,
the
firstÂ
coherentÂ
sound
from
smacky
bubblingÂ
lips:
No!
JAWS.
I'llÂ
drink
to
that
-
They
drink
and
JANINE
lovinglyÂ
tweaks
HOOPER's
cheeks.
HOOPER.
The
rest,Â
dear
old
leprechaun
-Â
isÂ
the
corruptÂ
workings
of
civilisation.
JANINE
(to
Jaws).
Isn't
heÂ
a
lovely
old
bear?
(To
Hooper,
tweakingÂ
again.)
You're
a
huggy
bear,
you
are.
A
real
huggy
bear-
Titles
overÂ
ToytownÂ
music.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Mercer on Mercer
- FLINT
- THE BANKRUPT
- AN AFTERNOON AT THE FESTIVAL
- DUCK SONG
- THE ARCATA PROMISE
- FIND ME
- HUGGY BEAR
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