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Ding Dong the Wicked
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A short play by one of the UK's leading dramatists. Premiered at the Royal Court in October 2012.
'No one could blame me. I've been hurt. You're a monster.'
A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war. And meanwhile in another country...
'The best short play since Harold Pinter's Mountain Language ' Mark Lawson, Front Row
'As always Churchill seems inventive, coolly socialist, bleak yet dazzling, a bit of a shaman' Evening Standard
'An intriguing work, with an underlying atmosphere of unease and menace reminiscent of Pinter... it nags away in the memory long after you have left the theatre' Telegraph
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A living room. There is a door leading to the rest of the house, a front door and a window. There is a tv but we canāt see the screen or hear the sound.
A QUIET MAN, about forty-five, is alone in the room. There is a plastic sheet on the floor and a large strong bin bag.
Doorbell. The QUIET MAN opens the front door, taking out a gun.
| QUIET MAN | Come in. | |
| | The QUIET MAN shoots someone, who falls dead. The QUIET MAN puts the body and the bloodstained plastic sheet in the bag, and leaves with the bag by the front door. | |
| | Time passes. | |
| | Doorbell. A WOMAN IN BLUE, late forties, comes from inside and opens the street door. A YOUNG WOMAN CARRYING A FLOWER comes in, they embrace. | |
| YW w FLOWER | All right? | |
| W in BLUE | I am, he is, guess whoās making a fuss. Just donāt get him started. | |
| FLOWER | Itās because heās suffered, isnāt it, I know he has. | |
| BLUE | I get tired of it. | |
| FLOWER | Of course. | |
| BLUE | Iām not saying heās wrong. | |
| FLOWER | Youāre sensible, thatās what it is. | |
| BLUE | Mind you. | |
| FLOWER | Oh Iām not sayingā¦ | |
| BLUE | Thereās someone kept calling me names when I was at school, jellybelly, doubletrouble ā just a bit overweight ā and one day I pushed her so she fell down in a puddle and before she could get herself sorted out I jumped right on her and I got a handful of mud and stuffed it in her mouth. | |
| FLOWER | She was asking for it. | |
| BLUE | She was pretty but she was skinny. Sheās the one with the problem. | |
| FLOWER | Did I hear someone crying? | |
| BLUE | Sheās just calming down. You canāt let them think theyāve got you where they want you. You have to break their spirit. It doesnāt take long. | |
| | An OVERWEIGHT MAN, about fifty, husband of t... |
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- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Characters
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- About the Author
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