Mercer Plays: 2
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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

About this book

The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers


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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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780413652003
eBook ISBN
9781408177853
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Drama
Index
Literature
HUGGYBEAR
369
JAWS.
I
thought
you'd
give
in 
-
HOOPER.
Babsie 
just
a 
wee
nightmare 
now, 
Jaws.
One
must
grit
the
chompers,
and 
opt
for
integrity.
JAWS.
Master
Joyce's
own
words, 
Sir,
in
effect.
(Pause.)
Non
serviam.
(Pause.)
The
wily 
Celt
-
HOOPER.
I
wish
I'd
known
Major
Trumpkins
-
JAWS.
A 
man 
of
your 
stamp, 
Sir.
(Raising
bis
glass).
How
many
go 
to
greet 
their 
Maker
on 
the
rolling 
tide
of 
an
orgasm?
The
Knights
Templars
of
happy 
prurience,
Mr 
H. 
A
select 
company
-
JANINE.
Time
for
bye-byes
-
HOOPER.
What 
about
one
last
glug
of
scotch?
JAWS
half
fills
a
tumbler,
and
passes
it 
to
HOOPER.
He
holds
it 
up.
HOOPER.
Looking
at 
Ma,
over 
there. 
Dreaming
I
bet,
of
sprightly
times 
when
she 
had
wind
and
limb. 
Yes. 
Peeking
at
Mums,
I
would
say 
my
wistful
wishes 
have 
never 
included
the
inter-
uterine. 
Never
so 
far
back, 
Jaws.
Just
the
first
few
biffy
months.
Before
the
awful
nature
of
things 
became,
so 
to
speak,
as
clear
as 
the
teat
on
one's
bottle.
(Pause.)
I
well 
remember
the
first 
salutary 
hint
of
things
to
come. 
Astride
the
pot.
Refusing
to
perform.
(Pause.)
I
would 
peruse
a
woolly 
rabbit.
Batten
down
the
sphincters.
By
God, 
Jaws,
I 
can
still 
feel 
that
cold
ring 
of
enamel! 
Face 
red. 
Lungs
constricted.
Totty
paws
beating
the
air.
(Pause.)
Helpless
one 
is,
attended
by
what
seems
to 
be 
an
importunate 
giant.
(Pause.)
The
junction
of
pot 
and
backside, 
Jaws, 
triggered
off 
the
first 
word.
The
first
precious
unretractable
statement.
(Pause.)
Up 
it
came
- 
a
gust
of
air, 
twanging
and
strumming
the
virgin
vocal 
cords.
Up 
-
hup
hup
hup!
Out
with
it! 
Let 
it
come!
The
gift
of
language,
the
first 
coherent 
sound
from
smacky
bubbling 
lips:
No!
JAWS.
I'll 
drink
to
that
-
They
drink
and
JANINE
lovingly 
tweaks
HOOPER's
cheeks.
HOOPER.
The
rest, 
dear
old
leprechaun
- 
is 
the
corrupt 
workings
of
civilisation.
JANINE
(to
Jaws).
Isn't
he 
a
lovely
old
bear?
(To
Hooper,
tweaking 
again.)
You're
a
huggy
bear,
you
are.
A
real
huggy
bear-
Titles
over 
Toytown 
music.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Chronology
  4. Introduction
  5. Mercer on Mercer
  6. FLINT
  7. THE BANKRUPT
  8. AN AFTERNOON AT THE FESTIVAL
  9. DUCK SONG
  10. THE ARCATA PROMISE
  11. FIND ME
  12. HUGGY BEAR