The One (NHB Modern Plays)

Vicky Jones

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Jahr: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781780013824
• Thema: Literature
• Thema: Drama

A viciously funny play about a couple trapped in a destructive cycle of love and lust. Winner of the 2013 Verity Bargate Award.

Harry and Jo are up all night drawing the battle lines of a relationship based on desire, dependency and dirty games.

The One premiered at the Soho Theatre, London in February 2014.

ONE

The lounge. About 10 p.m. Saturday. HARRY and JO are having sex whilst watching porn.

JO is sitting on top of him and also eating Wotsits.

Both appear more interested in the porn than in each other.

JO is alternately jerking up and down a bit, and nibbling on a Wotsit.

JO throws a Wotsit in the air and tries to catch it in her mouth.

HARRY

Can you not?

JO	YES! [Or ‘BOLLOCKS!’ if she doesn’t catch it.] What?

HARRY

With the Wotsits

JO	What with the Wotsits?

HARRY

It’s minging.

JO	You want me to starve?

HARRY

You had dinner.

JO

Gone!

The sex becomes more rhythmic, more intense.

JO resembles a jockey, deep in concentration.

HARRY is touching her body but she doesn’t respond.

JO picks up the remote and turns off the porn.

She begins channel surfing.

HARRY appears neither surprised nor annoyed.

She climbs off him and watches the TV.

HARRY

A week isn’t going to kill us.

She continues to surf.

Can we at least talk about the possibility

JO	Ah, The Boy Who Gave Birth to his Twin?

HARRY

You’ve seen that one.

JO	Shock d...