Day One, a Hotel, Evening
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Day One, a Hotel, Evening

Joanna Murray-Smith

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Day One, a Hotel, Evening

Joanna Murray-Smith

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Graciously irreverent, this play explores the revelations of three couples entangled in a web of extra-marital indiscretions. It asks us, 'What is love?' in a glaringly honest, deeply searching and ultimately sobering way.

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Publisher
Currency Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781925210200
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Drama
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Literature
SCENE ONE
A three-star hotel room, slightly dismal. Today. Evening. Lamplight.
MADELEINE and SAM, dishevelled. We see enough of their clothes to know they are expensive, quite conservative, workwear. There’s a small suitcase on the floor through which a rather elegant feather and some red silk is peeking.
They are delighted in each other.
MADELEINE: So you see, why I’m here—
SAM: I think so.
MADELEINE: Here with you.
SAM: Yes.
MADELEINE: Instead of with him.
SAM: It makes sense.
MADELEINE: Instead of longing for a thrill, I want shelter, I want shelter from interesting things. It’s all too interesting. Life is too interesting. I need to be somewhere where the excitement feels contained, it’s ours, it belongs to us, in this enclosed space, here. Here with you—
SAM: Good.
MADELEINE: Do you see?
SAM: Whatever it takes.
MADELEINE: What do you want?
SAM: Now?
MADELEINE: What do you want from… this?
Beat.
SAM: I want a woman who could drive a Mustang from Albuquerque to San Jose.
MADELEINE: Is that so?
SAM: I want a woman who can wrap a telescope to send through the mail.
MADELEINE: Oh.
SAM: I want a woman who could build an irrigation system.
MADELEINE: I can’t do that.
SAM: How do you know?
MADELEINE: True.
SAM: You could learn.
MADELEINE: You don’t own anything that needs irrigating.
SAM: I might.
MADELEINE: Do you?
SAM: I might… one day. What do you want?
MADELEINE: I want a man who could rob a bank.
SAM: Is that so?
MADELEINE: Looking stylish. A stylish man who could rob a bank. A man who could rob a bank stylishly.
SAM: Quite a tall order.
MADELEINE: Doesn’t have to be tall. Just brave.
SAM: Still.
MADELEINE: Plenty of men can rob banks. Quite a few do. Just not my husband.
SAM: Not much of a heist guy?
MADELEINE: He could build a bank. He could sell a bank. He could definitely manage a bank. But I don’t think he could rob a bank.
SAM: Ouch. ‘Manage’ a bank?
MADELEINE: I think it’s a reasonable assessment.
SAM: Bit of a ‘bank manager’, is he?
MADELEINE: Nothing wrong with that.
SAM: No.
MADELEINE: Unless it’s a bank robber you want.
SAM: He might surprise you.
MADELEINE: It’s been twelve years. A long build.
SAM: That’s depressing.
MADELEINE: That’s why I’m here.
SAM: True.
MADELEINE: If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be here with you.
SAM: He causes me?
MADELEINE: Husbands. Lovers.
SAM: You were loitering.
MADELEINE: Was I?
SAM: Standing in the lobby looking like a hooker.
MADELEINE: [indicating her outfit] In this?
SAM: Hooker who could make a hollandaise...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Playwright’s Biography
  4. First Production
  5. Characters
  6. Day One, a Hotel, Evening
  7. Copyright Page