Meat (NHB Modern Plays)

Gillian Greer

• Editorial: Nick Hern Books
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781788503303
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: British Drama

When Ronan's former girlfriend Max turns up at his fashionable Dublin restaurant, he's determined to prove to her how far he's come. But Max has something bigger to discuss.

Over the course of one winesoaked evening, old wounds are exposed and new truths uncovered.

Gillian Greer's play Meat is a story of class, consent and transgressions buried in the past. How can one couple navigate their shared history when their memories don't quite match up?

The play was a finalist in Theatre503's International Playwriting Award in 2018. It premiered at Theatre503, London, in February 2020.

ACT ONE

One

We are a few courses into a meal in a fancy restaurant. MAX and RONAN sit in a glum show of civility, it’s clear a bomb’s been dropped. RONAN picks at his food.

...

MAX	There won’t be any names any identifying that’s not what –
RONAN	Right.
MAX	This is just a courtesy. I thought it I thought: Only fair you know. Up front. In advance.
	I was talkin to my editor you know
	like I was tellin ya
	about delving deeper baring
	a version of myself they’ve never seen before
	a perspective they’ve
RONAN	They?
MAX	The people who read my stuff my my my my followers
	Giving them access to my past my trauma to
RONAN	To me?
MAX	No not to you access to to to me
	to what you did to me. I just want to tell my story
	talk about my my experience of it
	what it means to be yaknow
	a survivor
RONAN	A survivor of what? What did you ‘survive’?