Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her E-Book

Sami Ibrahim

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

When bereaved mother Mary finds a disembodied arm, a conspiracy builds: maybe her child isn't quite so dead after all. Shortlisted for Soho Theatre's Tony Craze Award, Sami Ibrahim's Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her is an enthralling monologue about love and loss. It was first performed as part of the 2018 VAULT Festival, London.

Leseprobe

Sami Ibrahim

WIND BIT BITTER,BIT BIT BIT HER

NICK HERN BOOKSLondonwww.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Welcome (back) to VAULT

Original Production

Characters

Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Welcome (Back) to VAULT

We once dreamed about offering the chance for talented writers at VAULT to see their work published. (Enter Nick Hern Books, confident, bold, even foolhardy.) Three years on, and Plays fromVAULT is becoming a festival staple. It’s energising to know that there is interest in, and demand for, the VAULT alumni of 2018.

This year, these committed and passionate publishers have gone a step further, becoming the sole sponsors of the VAULT New Writers Award. Alongside writer Camilla Whitehill, and producer Rosalyn Newbery, eight brand-new playwrights are taking part in an eight-week writers’ course at VAULT. It wouldn’t have happened without Nick Hern Books and they deserve loud thanks for their belief in nurturing new talent.

VAULT 2018, the sixth festival, runs for eight weeks. We are joined by more venues than ever including the Waterloo East Theatre, the Network Theatre, and the Travelling Through Bookshop. There are already over 330 groups of artists featured in the programme at this year’s festival.

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re already curious, so forgive us if we co-opt you a little further. If you’re good at being an audience member, come and see more than you planned to at VAULT. If you’re good at being an artist, think about bringing something to VAULT 2019. If you’re good at being a commissioner, you can go right ahead and commission these writers.

To the future!

Mat Burt, Andy George & Tim WilsonVAULT Festival Directors

Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her was first performed at VAULT Festival, London, on 24 January 2018, with the following cast:

MARYPhoebe VigorCHARLEYRosa CoduriDirectorSami IbrahimLightingJack TaylorMusicDavid RidleyPoster DesignLaura Whitehouse

Characters

MARY

CHARLEY

Note on Play

Text should be spoken at a frantic pace

(except when it shouldn’t).

A dash on its own line – is either a pause, or a moment when a character can’t or won’t speak.

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

ONE

MARY, Dymchurch, England, 2020s.

Mary.

Spelt like normal.

And then, uh, it’s Malek, my surname.

M-A-L-E-K

But I thought you’d have that down already, or –

Just to check, right.

Her as well?

I really thought you’d have this down somewhere, you’ve met her, you’ve –

Again, just to check.

Sure, for the record, or something.

Sorry.

I’m a bit –

Her, yeah.

She’s Charley.

Dimmock.

She’s not my girlfriend though, she’s –

Uh

D-I-M… M –

Yeah, exactly.

If you ever saw Ground Force, like the ginger one –

Yeah.

Charley’s spelt differently though.

E-Y, yeah – no, not a nickname.

–

Just put teacher – reception.