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Brutal Cessation
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A relationship rotting. Purgatory. Is having no reason to stay a reason to leave? At what point does the abuser become the abused? And why aren't we more afraid of women? Two actors, one couple, swapping roles. A savage new play exploring violence in relationships, our expectations of gender and what happens when we're no longer in love but refuse to let go.
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SCENE 1
R and C are eating food. Theyāre watching a programme. Laughing.
R: Ha.
C: Stop
R: Iām ā
C: Oh god.
R: Iām
C: Oh god.
R: Oh god Iām crying. Ha.
R: Ha.
C: Ha.
R: Stop
C: Iām ā
R: Oh god.
C: Iām
R: Oh god.
C: Oh god Iām crying.
R: I canāt breathe.
R: The bit with the ā
C: Where he ā
R: No, I like it when heās screaming behind the door.
C: That bit?
R: Donāt you ā ?
C: Yeah.
R: Yeah?
C: But heās in pain.
R: Sure. But itās funny. You were laughing.
C: I was laughing at the snooty woman ā the guest whoās all confused about the ā the
R: ā alarm ā
C: Yeah.
R: But the bit with the ā
C: But the bit with the ā
R: ā the typewriter. The ā
Mimes.
C: Yeah and his little arms all ā
Mimes.
R: Like heās gonna justā¦
Mimes.
C: Yeah. Yeah. Would you love me if I looked like that?
Beat.
Would you be my friend if I looked like that?
R: No.
C: Fair. Would you be my friend if every time ifā¦every time we met your sister she justā¦uncontrollably shat herself.
R: No.
C: Cool.
R: Would you be my friend if it turned out all this time Iād been hiding your pubes?
C: What like, from me?
R: No, like, in a jar.
C: I meanā¦yes but Iād always wonder where we went wrong.
R: Youāre too forgiving.
C: Would you be my friend if ā no, would you still love me if ā
R: Dāyou know what I think is mad?
C: What?
R: That you can lock someone in a burning room and no one will notice.
C: I suppose he doesnāt know its burning.
R: Right ā that you can lock someone in a room and have them bang and scream on the door and shout for help and have no one come and save them.
C: But they think itās part of the drill.
R: They do not.
Beat.
Dāyou know, watching that, the thought struck me that they wouldnāt let you do that now.
C: Racism or violence?
R: Semi-tonally different alarms.
C: Semis?
R: Yep. Thatās exactly what I thought.
C: Ooh. Look at you thinking.
R: I have thoughts.
C: A single thought.
R: That thought is single, yes. But in general.
C: But this thought you thought?
R: Yes, I was struck by the thought that they wouldnāt let you get a semi nowadays.
C: The thought āstruckā you did it?
R: Yes, it did.
C: It struck you?
R: It struck me.
C: I didnāt hear you yelling.
R: Just because I didnāt yell doesnāt mean it didnāt hurt.
C: Did it hurt?
R: It was a proper brute.
C: Was it now?
R: It snuck in through the window, pinned me down and struck me.
C: Like the bit where he smashes the top of his head?
R: Just l...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Cast
- Scene 1
- Scene A
- Scene 2
- Scene B
- Scene 3
- Scene C
- Scene 4
- Scene D
- Scene 5
- Scene E
- Scene 6
- Scene F