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Godber Plays: 4 brings together four recent plays by one of Britain's most prolific, popular playwrights. The author is the artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre and the publication is timed to coincide with the opening of Hull Truck's new theatre building in the heart of Hull. In Our House May, a widow, mother and grandmother, is packing up her home of 45 years and heads for a life in the sun. However, trading neighbourhood hell for the Costa del Calm is no easy task as memories are harder to let go than possessions. First produced in 2007, the play was revived and toured the UK in 2008. In Crown Prince (2007) Godber finds comedy in a bowls club, and against the backdrop of the advancing years of its members, issues of redundancy, bereavement and guilt emerge. Sold is the author's most politically charged play to date, exposing the misery of people-trafficking and women sold into the sex-trade in Britain. Christmas Crackers follows overworked A&E nurses Holly and Kath on a shopping and booze trip to Prague where things take an unexpected turn. 'John Godber's work is unique; he is able to speak to a very broad
audience in a way that is thought-provoking, exciting and always very
funny.' Hilary Strong, Executive Director of Greenwich Theatre
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Our House was first performed by Hull Truck Theatre Company in July 2001 at Spring Street Theatre, Hull. This revised version of the play was first performed by Hull Truck Theatre Company in January 2008 at Theatre Royal, Wakefield with the following cast:
May | Jackie Naylor |
Ted | Dicken Ashworth |
Jack | Matt Booth |
Sharon | Fiona Wass |
Steve | Lewis Linford |
Sonja | Anne-Marie Hosell |
Les | Lewis Linford |
Candace | Anne-Marie Hosell |
Sylvia | Fiona Wass |
Lance | Dicken Ashworth |
Directed by John Godber
Designed by Pip Leckenby
The action takes place in the living room of a council house between the years 1958 and 2001. The play is set in a West Yorkshire pit village.
Act One
Scene One
The present.
The set is a cut-away of a council house built in the 1950s. It is spotlessly clean, though has seen many decades. Two large sofas occupy centre stage. Upstage there are doors through to a kitchen, and a door to the front door stage right. We are able to see through the cut-away wall to the front door, stage right, and to the dustbin, the fence and the next-door garden area. Upstage centre is a false wall where we will be able to see the next-door action when we need to. The living room is full of boxes and furniture ready for removal.
House lights. Music. May, a woman in her early seventies using a Eubank sweeper to tidy her living room. She is unsteady on her feet. As she works, Steve, a young man dressed in work clothes, appears at the back door. He reads from a small piece of paper. But May cannot hear him until he shouts.
Steve Hello? Hello? Is there anyone there? Hello!
May Hello!
Steve Hello! Are you there? Is this 102?
May turns, moves to the back door.
Silence.
May What are you looking for, love?
Steve 102.
May This is it!
Steve I thought ā¦
May Are you from Masonās?
Steve Thatās us ā¦
May I thought you werenāt coming ā¦
Steve (defensive) No I ā¦
May I thought you werenāt coming ā¦
Steve (defensive) Oh no, we ā¦
May Iāve just been to phone up ā¦
Steve No, we had a bit of a problem this morning ā¦
May Iāve phoned up twice ā¦
Steve The van wouldnāt start.
May The woman said youād overlaid ā¦
Steve First time itās let me down and all ā¦
May She said youād overlaid!
Steve (obviously lying) No ā¦ Donāt worry about that.
May I mean I could have got Ken Swale, you know?
Steve (looking around) Iām parked on the corner, canāt get any closer for that skip ā¦
May Our Jackās arranged it ā¦
Steve (still looking around) A bit of a carry but ā¦
May I told him to use Ken Swale.
Steve Youāll be all right with me ā¦
May I thought it was going to be Masonās?
Steve This is Masonās ā¦
May Youāre not a Mason, are you?
Steve Not me no!
May I mean, I went to school with Barry Mason ā¦
Steve I bought it off him ā¦
May I was going to say! I mean I know a Mason when I see one!
Steve Weāve kept the name.
May Youāll be here all day if itās just you!
Steve Is there much to go?
May A house full, what do you think? Come on!
Steve I thought there might be.
May brings Steve into the house.
May And I canāt help you, you know, so you can forget that!
Steve Donāt worry about that.
May (louder) I say I canāt help you.
Steve Iāll manage, no problem ā¦
Steve looks around at the distance between the van and the house.
Probably break my bloody neck but ā¦
May I donāt know how youāre going to manage the wardrobe.
Steve Piece of cake!
May Thereās a dining table and all and three beds.
Steve Smashing!
Steve makes to move and is stopped as May speaks. She seems slightly disassociated.
May ā¦ I mean our Jack said he was going to do it but ā¦ Heās bloody late and all.
Steve Iāll get you sorted ā¦
May I donāt know how youāre going to shift half of it. I mean, Iāve seen more fat on a chip!
Steve (eagerly) Iām all power me!
May Youāll need to be. I mean, heās full of good intentions our Jack ā¦
Steve reads a note he has in his hand.
Steve Is it Mrs Willis?
May Did my son speak to you? Heās...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Our House
- Christmas Crackers
- Crown Prince
- Sold
- Chronology
- By the same Author
- Imprint