Epic Love and Pop Songs E-Book

Phoebe Eclair-Powell

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: NHB Modern Plays
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 53

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

A smart, funny play about love, friendship and growing up, from the author of WINK and Fury. Remember your best friend? No, the other one. The one that liked to lie. Maybe it's time they 'fessed up. Maybe Doll and Ted should start telling the truth.   Doll is on the mic, Ted is on backing vocals. Set to the greatest love songs of all time, this is what happens when the lights come on, you're singing your heart out to Celine Dion, you've been sick on your shoes, and you realise you might just have to grow up. Phoebe Eclair-Powell's Epic Love and Pop Songs was first performed at the Pleasance Dome during the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Phoebe Eclair-Powell

EPIC LOVE AND POP SONGS

NICK HERN BOOKSLondonwww.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Original Production

Acknowledgements

Characters

Epic Love and Pop Songs

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Epic Love and Pop Songs was produced by Showroom and first performed at Pleasance Dome, as part of the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, on 6 August 2016. The cast was as follows:

DOLL

Norah Lopez Holden

TED

George Caple

Director

Jamie Jackson

Designer

Anna Reid

Sound and Lighting Designer

Charley Mackley

Movement Director

Isla Jackson-Ritchier

Stage Manager

Andie Dew

Casting Director

Rebecca Targett

Producer

Callum Smith for Showroom

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Jamie Jackson, who is my Ted. Forever.

Thank you to my mum and dad for their constant support this year. And as ever – thank you, Mum, for being an incredibly fast reader.

Thank you, Mr Callum Smith, for making me take the risk – no regrets. Really – thank you.

Thank you, Amy Clamp and Matthew Dwyer and all at the Pleasance for taking a big punt – I am very, very grateful.

Thank you, Isla Jackson-Ritchie, because you are just a bit too awesome.

Thank you to my very first Doll and Ted – the excellent Norah Lopez Holden and George Caple.

Thank you to Anna Reid, Charley Mackley and Andie Dew – what a fantastic crew.

Thank you to my agent, the lovely Ikenna Obiekwe.

Thank you to the dude that is Dan Nixon – I owe you lots.

P.E-P.

Characters

DOLL, sixteen, a liar (?)TED, sixteen, a hero (?)

Ted and Doll are the storytellers and this play is all about how you spin a tale. The set is negotiable, there could be a bed and a chair, a teenage bedroom from which a world is created, or nothing at all.

The title of this play mentions pop songs – use as many as you can/like to underscore the action – or they could even sing/perform certain songs. Keep it contemporary and relevant to you – though Beyoncé should probably stay the same – as I’m sure she won’t be going out of fashion any time soon…

A forward slash (/) in the text indicates that the next person should interrupt the previous speech slightly. It is important to keep a rhythm and a pace with this play.

An ellipsis (…) means there is a slight moment of pause.

A dash (–) means the next person’s line comes in straight away, not so much an interruption as a continuation.

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

DOLL. Hello, my name is Doll Evans and this is my show. And it is a one-woman show with supporting material – a backing dancer if you will – you know like one of them women that sing in a black dress at the back of the stage on Britain’s Got Talent and wave their arms a bit – except my one’s a man and he’s called Ted Parker. But forget about him, because this is about me. And this is a list of things I like:

I like dunkin’ biscuits in tea and then downing all the bitty bits in the bottom of the cup. I like watching Dinner Date on ITV3 because it reminds me that at least I’m not that much of a freak. I like wearing these pyjamas every night even though the towelling starts to smell of fanny really quickly, you know how it all rides up, well it does.

I go to Harris Academy and I’m in Year 10 don’t ya know, yadda yadda I’m giving background, trust me it helps.

I’m really average is basically what I am trying to say, I really, really am just that teenage girl you all know and won’t sit next to on the back of the bus. That one. Music too loud brap brap I don’t care, feet up on the seat, likes to link arms, laughs at everything and thinks ‘you’re well fit’ is the best chat-up line ever. I’m her.

I live with my mum, cos well, that’s the way it’s always been, but my dad lives round the corner, with Auntie Cheryl who is both my aunt and my stepmum. Jezza Kyle ain’t seen nuthin yet. Get me a double-page spread in Take a Break.

But no really it’s fine. As my mum would say ‘no really everyone I think you’ll find IT’S FINE’. And then she chews on some more HRT and puts a nicotine patch on her nipple.

I think I’m what’s pushing Mum over the edge at the moment to be honest.

Her blood pressure is well high and you can hear her teeth gnashing together in her sleep from my room. Except when she’s like, crying.

I think it’s because I’m pregnant.

Ta-dah.

I love a reveal don’t you?

Trust me I’m not trying to be a bit-part in Hollyoaks it just sort of happened and then you think, ‘well why not eh?’A little thing, round here, could be fun. I thought Mum would be more excited, she’s always going on about me growing up and having nothing to live for blah blah, so now we both have something to live for – don’t we?

I thought it was a great plan, but she was, well she was…I think it’s cos I couldn’t tell her who the father was. Sorry, but it’s a secret – I might not even tell you guys.

TED. She won’t even tell me.

DOLL. This is Ted – he’s just here to make some things clear, and sometimes play other people, but that’s all, cos it’s my story, isn’t it.

TED. Yeah course.

DOLL. And it’s important that I tell it, isn’t it?

TED. Yeah no / I