Japes E-Book

Simon Gray

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

A funny and sardonic play about two brothers trapped in a love triangle with the woman they both love. Two brothers share the house they grew up in and then share the woman they both love. But as time passes and their family grows, the ties that bind them are tested to the limit. Spanning thirty years and offering a new slant on the eternal triangle, the plot is driven by involuntary cruelties, damaging accidents of fate and the terrible ravages of time. Simon Gray's play Japes was first performed at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, in November 2000 before transferring to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in February 2001.

Leseprobe

Simon Gray

JAPES

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Original Production

Characters

Act One

Act Two

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Piers

26 May 1947–28 June 1996

Japes was first presented at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, on 23 November 2000, and subsequently transferred to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, opening on 7 February 2001. The cast was as follows:

JASONToby StephensMICHAELJasper BrittonANITA/WENDYClare SwinburneDirectorPeter HallDesignerJohn GunterLighting DesignerNeil Austin

Characters

MICHAEL

JASON

WENDY

ANITA

ACT ONE

Scene One

Early seventies. Sitting room of family house in Hampstead. The house belongs to MICHAEL and JASON CARTTS, brothers. MICHAEL is in his mid-twenties, JASON a year or so younger.

Upstage left, door leading off sitting room to other rooms. Kitchen also off stage left.

Sound of typewriter from upstairs.

JASON is sprawled on sofa in sitting room. He has a bottle of wine beside him, a glass in his hand.

Sound of typing stops. Footsteps on stairs. MICHAEL enters sitting room, walks irritably about, ignored by JASON, goes out again. Footsteps on stairs. A pause. MICHAEL comes back into sitting room, collapses onto chair tensely.

JASON (after a pause, mumbles). Hi.

MICHAEL. Hi. (Glances at JASON.) Are you asleep?

JASON. No. I’m trying to remember.

MICHAEL. Remember what?

JASON. ‘Sunday Morning’. The last bit. The deer.

MICHAEL. And can you?

JASON. Mmm –

Deer walk upon our mountains, and the quail

Whistles about us their spontaneous cries;