Sugar Baby E-Book

Alan Harris

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

A one-man comedy-drama from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris. When you're a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, it's tough living up to your family's expectations. Marc spends his time avoiding his mum, disguising his cannabis plants with fake tomatoes, and bailing out his old man, who owes £6,000 to local loan shark Oggy. When Marc meets Lisa for the first time in years, things get even messier. Lisa wants Marc. Only, Oggy wants Lisa. Marc just wants to survive the day. Sugar Baby premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017, in a production by Dirty Protest in Paines Plough's pop-up theatre, Roundabout.

Leseprobe

Alan Harris

SUGAR BABY

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Original Production

Note on Play

Sugar Baby

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Sugar Baby was first produced by Dirty Protest as part of Wales in Edinburgh with the support of Chapter, the Arts Council of Wales, Wales Arts International and British Council Wales. It was first performed on 4 August 2017 in Paines Plough’s Roundabout @ Summerhall, at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017. The cast was as follows:

Alex Griffin-Griffiths

Director

Catherine Paskell

Lighting Designer

Ace McCarron

Sound Designer

Dan Lawrence

Assistant Producer

Glesni Price-Jones

Stage Manager

Emily Butler

Marketing Consultant

Rhian Lewis

Note on Play

One actor plays all the characters.

Italics are for real-time dialogue.

Narrative dialogue is not in italics.

A dash on its own line (–) indicates a pause for thought.

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

Prologue

I try not to act on impulse.

But I can’t help it.

Which, to be fair, is the problem with impulse.

Or the problem with me.

–

I’ll start again.

I acted on impulse.

I was sitting on a bus stop waiting for the 61 minding my own when I sees a girl standing in the middle of Fairwater Road with a Beamer coming towards her.

I gets up, sprints the six yards and grabs her out of the road.

Impulse gets you into trouble.

The sort of trouble that leads to Vicci Park, murder, going on the run and Billy the Seal.

Seriously there’s a seal in this story.

The thing that’s always held me back is sharing – I’ve always hated it. Like when you’re out and there’s other people there and they say: shall we get something to share? No – I wants my own plate of food.

Sharing is dangerous ground.

I once told someone that once – once mind you – I played with a Wendy house with my cousin in Malpas, little Justine, and every times I sees him now they says, this person I told, they says ‘How’s it going, Wendy?’

I’ve always had a vision that I’m, like, some kind of lone wolf – I know.

And that I’m really in a movie – I’m the central character, obviously.

A’right, my story is a bit crappy and dirty and set in Fairwater and not LA and I feels a bit of a bell-end because people like me are not supposed to have a story.

But, anyway, that’s a load of shit.

What I want to tell you about is what happened on August 18th last year.

The story, really, starts before I save a girl from being run over by a Beamer.

About thirty-seven minutes before.

I’m sitting in Oggy’s.

Sweating.

Is not a bad day outside but he’s got the heating cranked right up.

I’m sweating so much my bollocks is damp, you know?