Conversation Piece
- by Chris Cunningham
- ‘Ox tongue! For Christ sake, don`t you watch the news?’
- ‘No, why should I? I`m depressed, in fact I`m suicidal’
- ‘You must be, there`s foot and mouth going around’
- ‘Again?’
- ‘What do you mean again?’
- ‘It was here in sixty seven’
- ‘I don`t remember it’
- ‘`Cos you`re thick’
- ‘What do you mean?’
- ‘What I say’
- ‘Explain’
- ‘No point’
- ‘What do you mean, no point, and why are you calling me thick?’
- ‘I`m sorry. I apologise’
- ‘Well that`s a first, you apologising’
- ‘Now it`s your turn’
- ‘What for?’
- ‘To apologise’
- ‘I`ve nothing to apologise for’
- ‘Yes you have’
- ‘What?’
- ‘For upsetting me all these years, for making my life a misery’
- ‘You what!’
- ‘You heard’
- ‘Making your life a misery! What about you making my life a misery?’
- ‘You didn`t need my help to do that, you've always been a misery’
- ‘Are you on drugs?’
- ‘No’
- ‘You`re on something, this is not like you’
- ‘Then who is it like?’
- ‘I don`t know, has something happened?’
- ‘No’
- ‘Then why are you behaving like this?’
- ‘Like what?’
- ‘Like this’
- ‘Explain’
- ‘I can`t, I don`t understand’
- ‘I want you to go’
- ‘What for?’
- ‘Call a taxi’
- ‘I`ve got a car’
- ‘Then just go’
- ‘Why should I? I live here’
- ‘So do I’
- ‘Look can we talk about this in the morning?’
- ‘I don`t think so’
- ‘Why?’
- ‘`Cos you wont let me have ox tongue’
- ‘It`s bad for you, it`s bad for everyone’
- ‘No it isn't’
- ‘Shall I tuck you in?’
- ‘You might as well, you do every night’
- ‘I know, I really do love you, you know’
- ‘I know, where we playing tomorrow night?’
- ‘Croydon’
- ‘I don`t like it there’
- ‘Why not?’
- ‘It`s hard to pronounce, I keep saying Cloydon’
- ‘Don`t you worry about it, I`m the ventriloquist, not you. Goodnight’
- ‘Goodnight’