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Hotel (NHB Modern Plays)
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An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough.
Hotel is in two parts:
In the first, Eight Rooms, fourteen people - tourists, couples and business people - spend an ordinary night in a hotel. But they all occupy the same space, their stories overlapping and interweaving and creating an exhilarating collage of words, voices, music and choreographed movement.
In the second, a dance piece entitled Two Nights, we see two distinct nights happening at the same time. Two people find different ways to disappear, while a diary found in another hotel room tells of one more extraordinary disappearance.
'Elusive, poetic, striking and substantial' - The Times
'Their pieces have the power to make you leave the theatre in an altered state' - Observer
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HOTEL
Words
Caryl Churchill
Music
Orlando Gough
Direction/Choreography
Ian Spink
Eight Rooms
Characters
SILENT COUPLE
US COUPLE
AFFAIR COUPLE
OLD FRENCH COUPLE
GAY COUPLE
DRUNK COUPLE
BUSINESSMAN
BIRDBOOK WOMAN
TV
GHOST
Hotel bedroom. Large double bed, sink, wardrobe, TV.
It is eight identical hotel bedrooms superimposed. Each couple behaves as if they were alone in the room.
1. Arrivals
SILENT COUPLE arrive, start to settle in.
BUSINESSMAN arrives, puts on TV, flops on bed.
TV
rain later . . heavier and more prolonged on to tomorrow
US COUPLE arrive.
US MAN
which is terrific. The window you get a view of the
US WOMAN
uh huh uh huh
AFFAIR WOMAN arrives alone.
OLD FRENCH COUPLE arrive.
OLD FRENCH COUPLE arrive.
OLD COUPLE
demain . . le fleuve . . en bateau . . si tu veux
GAY COUPLE arrive.
GAY 1
I told him
GAY 2
you tell him
AFFAIR MAN arrives.
AFFAIR MAN
Miss me?
AFFAIR WOMAN
Missed you. Miss me?
AFFAIR MAN
Missed you.
BIRDBOOK WOMAN arrives. Starts to read hotel brochure.
BIRDBOOK WOMAN
The hotel is situated . .
in every room . .
continental or full English
in case of fire.
OTHERS join in brochure.
2. Settling In
BUSINESSMAN phones home.
BUSINESSMAN
Hi darling . . no really . . yeh . . yeh . . put him on.
Hi darling . . you did? . . big kiss, bye bye.
Hi darling . . you did? . . big kiss, bye bye.
Darling . . bye bye . . big kiss, bye bye.
GAY 1
we donât have to
GAY 2
of course we donât
GAY 1
we can simply
GAY 2
spend some time
GAY 1
get to know each other
GAY 2
get to know each other?
GAY 1
again.
US MAN
Golf in the neighbourhood . .
little guy in reception made me laugh when he said . .
if we get an early night we can make an early . .
US WOMAN
uh huh uh huh uh huh
OLD COUPLE
son chapeau
They laugh.
AFFAIR COUPLE
canât believe
just so
nothing like
wonder
BIRDBOOK WOMAN is reading a bird book.
BIRDBOOK WOMAN
sparrowhawk . . tinted eggs . . sedges . . nightingale
DRUNK COUPLE arrive cheerful and noisy.
because I really sincerely do
youâre completely right to
and heâs such an arsehole
which nobody understands except you
3. TV
By now many people are lying on the bed watching TV, often changing channels.
TV
your mothe...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Original Production
- Acknowledgements
- Hotel
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information