Time – Present <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Location – Richmond <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Characters <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe (a poet)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie (sister of Joe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sephine (Joe’s girlfriend)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cora (sister of Elena)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elena (sister of Cora)
Joe – Lets all play Charades<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – I would rather eat head <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – I am told that you are rather good at that <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – I have written clues on these coloured cards <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – Your writing is awful Joe <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – Are you on again sis as you are very aggressive like small fat women on hot days <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – I am heavy with child <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cora\/Elena – How thrilling <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – Who is it this time <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie looks at all present in the room <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – With the exception of me there are only girls in this room <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – Girls cannot make other girls preggers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sephine – I love charades <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cora – What is on your card <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sephine – An unmarried mother <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – The thickest man in history <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – A Nonce <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elena – A Bully <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – A woman who lies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sephine – A Faggot <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cora – A man so corrupt and stupid that he believes that movies are real <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elena – My card is blank<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – A ship of fools <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – Dad what are you doing here <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – Playing charades with you all <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – Daddy my Daddy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – Darling Josephine how are you <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – As mad as normal <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie then hugs her father and smothers him with kisses <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sephine is quietly weeping <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cora and Elena are chatting quietly to each other in Greek <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – But Dad you are dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – I drowned at sea when the Joe & Josephine sank <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – But you are very much alive <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – You have the finest brain I know and will accept what I am about to say <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – Go ahead <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – There is a God and a heaven I had always suspected that <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – I agree <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – I am happy to say that you do not spend all your time in heaven <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sephine – Really <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – Yes you get pass cards little pink cards signed by God <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – They are like travel passes <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – Are you going to stay <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elena – Would you like tea <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – Date and Walnut cake <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy (to all present) – Remember this day my children as I have brought you all good news <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – The Prime Minister has been assassinated <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – I said good news not great news <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – Have you visited Mummy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – I am on my way there <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie – On Sundays she is sometimes at the allotment <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – It is the north allotment as the south one is flooded<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – God guides me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy – Theatre of the Absurd <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe then stands up and collects cards from each player opens the window and throws them out<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe – Silence screams but we do not hear its music<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daddy leaves the stage <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lights fade <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nothing is said <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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