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Icecream (NHB Modern Plays)
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An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.
'The idea of Oregon, the word, just the word Oregon really thrills me'.
'You can't help loving England. The green fields. The accents. The pubs.'
Set half in the UK and half in the US, Icecream tells the story of two couples - an American man and wife and an English brother and sister. Implicated in each other's lives more than any of them would wish, their respective love affairs with each other's countries prove difficult to explain.
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1. Road to the Isles
LANCE and VERA in car. They are singing.
LANCE and VERA.
| The far coo-oolins are putting love on me As step I with my something to the road The dadeda dedadeda dedadeda away As step I with the sunlight for my load. And by something and by something and by something I will go And never something dadedadeda And something and dedadeda and something in my step |
And Iâll never something something of the isles. |
They laugh. |
LANCE. | Speed bonny boat Like a bird on the wing Over the sea to Skye |
VERA. | Youâre really flat. |
He stops. |
VERA. | Sorry. |
LANCE. | No, youâre right. |
VERA. | Oh come on. |
Pause. |
She sings. |
Why donât we go walking together Out beyond the valley of trees Out where thereâs a hillside of heather Curtsying gently in the breeze. Thatâs what Iâd like to do See the heather but with you. |
Itâs a pity no one remembered her though. |
LANCE. | My great grandmother was a very obscure woman. |
VERA. | Drowning yourself in a well isnât obscure. |
LANCE. | They were probably all at it. |
Pause. |
LANCE. | What was that from? |
VERA. | Brigadoon. |
LANCE. | Youâve got such a great memory. |
2. Castle
LANCE is turning round looking up at ceiling. VERA has a guide book.
LANCE. | What have we got thatâs old? |
VERA. | Sofa. Freezer. |
LANCE. | Nothing old. Just plenty worn out. No history. |
VERA. | Itâs twelfth century up the end and thirteenth on top. |
LANCE. | Eight hundred years. Whahey! |
VERA. | Iâve been touching the walls to try and believe it. |
LANCE. | We think the nineteenth century is history. We had wilderness and aboriginal people. For the British the nineteenth century is just now, they hardly notice itâs gone. For them history is ... |
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- Title Page
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- Original Production
- Characters
- Icecream
- About the Author
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