By admin | Published:
August 20, 2009
one-mile-away-final-performance-draft
Click the link above to see the full text of the play that we used for the performance.
If you’ve read the writing in development, you might notice some changes - ideas have merged, been cut down, extended, and I’ve borrowed extensively from the contributions other people have made to the body of writing here.
This is [...]
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By admin | Published:
July 14, 2009
Estate Agent: I think you’ll like this one. I think it ticks a lot of your boxes.
Joanna: Right.
Estate: 4 bed place, Kennington Road, early Victorian. Really generous proportions and lots of the original features remaining.
Joanna: Right.
Estate Agent: It’s got potential for improvement. You could really put your own stamp on it.
Joanna: I think I’d like [...]
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By admin | Published:
July 14, 2009
Let me say this before I begin. We are committed to good quality affordable housing for everybody.
(Have you had that letter? And the brochure? With the pictures in it?
Grass and trees. Young people sitting round tables in outdoor cafes, people riding bicycles.
Pictures of new flats. Artists impressions. Computer generated.
They do look very nice.)
Sixteen new developments, [...]
By admin | Published:
July 14, 2009
An estate outside the E and C. Laquan is on his way to meet his dad and nan, but he’s running late.
Laquan: (on the phone)
I got held up. I’m sorry.
Yeah, dad, don’t go off at me.
It ain’t - don’t make it out that I don’t care.
Stop blasting my ear -
I’m on my way, I’m [...]
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June 2, 2009
Setting: a flat in a Victorian mansion block.
Rooms: the bedroom. Small and dark. A wardrobe is partially open, clothes and unidintifiable objects splling out. There’s a high window, covered with velvet fabric.
Computer room/study:
Front room:
Kitchen:
Start in bedroom:
Janice: She is lying on her stomach on the bed, skirt hiked up. She is kicking her legs back and [...]
By admin | Published:
June 2, 2009
Characters:
SARAH (early 40s), Fizzy ginger hair (which is actually a wig)
JAY (7), SARAH’s son.
Scene: Millennium Green (opposite The Old Vic), 4:00pm, Wednesday, late June, very warm day. SARAH sits on the grass on her puffa jacket, shoes off, legs outstretched, taking in the sun. She has earphones in and is humming along tunelessly. JAY enters [...]
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May 7, 2009
Jamie and Janine lie on the floor again.
Jamie: Soothsayers.
Janine: Say the sooth. Truth! It is though.
Jamie: Oh it fuckin is. The river will rise up and wash this all away. Carry off the chicken cartons and the art galleries. Coffee shops and crack whores altogether.
look out the window watch the river. rising again. tide out [...]
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April 27, 2009
A phone call. Derek is in his office in the council buildings. Jim is in his living room, looking out of his window.
Derek: Hello. Environmental Control.
Jim: Hello. It’s me again.
Derek: Who is it?
Jim: He’s doing it again. The naked thing in the tree.
Derek: Sorry – who is this speaking? You want to make a complaint?
Jim: Again. Yes. It’s Jim McCusker. I’ve rang before. Lots of times.
Derek: Right.
Jim: About them being naked in the tree.
Derek: Right.
Jim: You don’t remember me do you?
By admin | Published:
April 9, 2009
I was a mile away when I got the call. Jamie was standing on top of the building. I was the wrong side of the river.
I didn’t ask myself whether I could change anything. I don’t think I even thought about it – I got up and shot out of the door. Mary asked where [...]
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By admin | Published:
April 6, 2009
They said they was knocking us down.
Yeah
We were coming down,
Were you?
Yeah. We were coming down. But they ain’t coming down now.
No.
I used to live in Peckham. But the council wanted to build new flats, take these ones down. So I got moved up here.
Just the other side of St Thomas’s love.
There used to be a [...]
From Parliament to Elephant, Vauxhall Farm to Lower Marsh.....
One Mile Away is a new play about a one-mile-radius area of London, created by playwright Kat Joyce and theatre director Nathan Curry, in collaboration with many local people.
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