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Three Kings (NHB Modern Plays)
Stephen Beresford
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Three Kings (NHB Modern Plays)
Stephen Beresford
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When Patrick is eight years old, his absent father returns unexpectedly for a brief but memorable encounter.
Years later â recalling that meeting, and the revelations that followed â Patrick traces the events of his father's life, laying bare a journey of grandiose plans, aching disappointments and audacious self-delusion.
Three Kings by Stephen Beresford is a heartbreaking and hilarious play for a solo actor about fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human relationships.
It was written for Andrew Scott to perform as part of Old Vic: In Camera, a series of live performances streamed from The Old Vic, London, in 2020. This edition includes an introduction by the director Matthew Warchus.
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âI have never understood the enthusiasm people have for dying by the sea.
âI like the sea. I like the sucking of waves on shingle â Iâm not⊠This isnât a condemnation of the poetic principles of nature.â
I have no idea why I am speaking like this.
Iâm looking around the cafĂ©. It has tiles on the walls in yellow and blue. A scene â like a mural â stretching across them. I think itâs a bull facing down a matador, but half of itâs hidden behind a fridge.
âThis is one of the more⊠authentic places,â he says. And I canât quite detect whether thatâs a boast or an apology.
I have a brandy in front of me â which, Iâm aware, has raised some eyebrows at ten oâclock in the morning â but since Iâve been brought here on the business of death, I appear to have been excused â
At least by him.
A television, above the bar, is showing football.
There are little plates of octopus and potato skewered onto toothpicks. A neon sign in the window â âEstrellaâ.
He taps my hand and, nods over at the glass counter.
âDonât touch the ham.â
His name is Dennis.
âI was a friend of your fatherâs,â he says. âIn as much as heâŠâ
âHad friends?â
âAllowed people in.â Dennis replies.
He seems pleased with that â and he lets it sit there between us for a moment.
Dennis has lived here for almost fourteen years. He is a leading light among the expatriate community. He offers all kinds of services â mortgage broking, naturalisation, currency exchange.
âNot that he was unpopularâŠâ he adds. âOh, far from it. He was always a veryâŠâ
I can see that the dangling of unfinished sentences is going to be Dennisâs style.
âEspecially with the ladies, of course.
âI helped him with all his difficulties.â
âYou mean prison?â I say.
âI gave him advice. I advised him. Especially about the divorces. His will. There were â this being Spain â the inevitable land and property issuesâŠâ
Heâs obviously going to gloss over my fatherâs brief but significant criminal career, so I say it again.
âDid you help him when he was sent to prison?â
âHe was incarcerated, yes. Briefly. In Madrid. I gave advice to his wifeâŠâ
âYou must remind me â â I say, âwould that have been Barbara?â
âBarbara?â
âBarbara. An older lady. Made a lot of money in care homes, I thinkâŠâ
âNoâŠâ he says. He looks troubled for a moment. âI think Barbara might have been before my time. This was ConcepciĂłn.â
âConcepciĂłn?â
âA younger person. Very pretty. At one time she was a stewardess for Jet Blue.â
âOh.â
Iâve never heard of Jet Blue. I try not to make that a reflection on ConcepciĂłn, but Iâm not entirely sure I succeed.
âAnd did she last the course?â I say.
âNo⊠She was a little⊠excitable. She didnât take too kindly to him being carted off like that. It was rather a shock.â
âIt must have been.â
âExtremely heavy-handed â but then, thatâs the guarda civil for you. Frankly, I canât think what was gained by it. Apprehending him, like that, at the
Royal MĂĄlaga Yacht Club⊠Parading him past the buffet in handcuffsâŠâ
Dennis is exercised by this miscarriage of justice so heâs keen to change the subject.
âYouâve been here before!â He says, brightly. âThree months ago!â
I fold the napkin.
âMy sister told me he was dying and so I came. I came and visited him.â
âI wasnât here.â
Dennis seems genuinely saddened by that.
âI was visiting the mainland â for a client in concrete.â
âI didnât expect to be back again so soon.â I say.
He pats my hand.
âThat trip must have been good for you,â he says. âAnd him.
âClosure.â
He says the word as though heâs only recently come across it â and perhaps he has.
His wife may have used it in front of him. Or his daughter.
I can see them sitting on a terrace, sharing a jug of sangria. Dennis loves his family â I know that from spending a few minutes with him.
I see them everywhere â men who love their families. I have an antenna for it.
I see them young â pushing swings and standing outside of schools. I see them old â in booths at restaurants â at graduation ceremoniesâŠ
My father was not such a man, I think.
And neither am I.
âHe was completely exonerated.
âThey sent him all the way back to Ireland and he was released. A full acquittal.â
âI know,â I say.
âHe may have owed a great deal of money â he may have been l...