Leaving Planet Earth by Lewis Hetherington & Catrin Evans

Author:Lewis Hetherington & Catrin Evans [Hetherington, Lewis & Evans, Catrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783190348
Goodreads: 18406139
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 2014-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE ATRIUM: ONE

VELA and BOY.

All three audience groups are led into the Atrium. VELA is there – walking down the central staircase. An image of a young BOY appears before her. The BOY’s voice is recorded and haunts the whole space.

BOY: Vela.

I think I'm quite ill. Mum says I have to try really hard to get better. But I'm just really tired and it's like, it's like my skeleton hurts and my skin and everything.

I have this dream with the Gatekeeper and like when I push him off the mountain he falls and explodes on the rocks and everything, and then he is just next to me, but he isn't friendly. He is laughing but it's sort of like horrible laughing.

And my hair falls out and then my teeth. And he just keeps laughing. And then he grabs me on my arm and drags me up into the sky and I'm being sick everywhere but we just get higher and higher and then we're right up in space and I'm still being sick everywhere.

I think maybe he's trying to get rid of me. Maybe he's trying to get rid of all of us. Maybe he tricked us.

Sometimes I hear this like really loud breathing. In and out. Like it's the whole planet.

And then sometimes I think it's going to take a really big breath in, and then do such a big breath out that it will throw us all off the ground and we'll shoot out into space.

And we'll float about and freeze and die.

VELA gets to the bottom of the stairs and walks across the floor of the Atrium. As the BOY finishes speaking she has a sharp and sudden intake of breath, she has to have a moment to steady herself.

HARPER rushes across to assist her.

HARPER: Vela!

The following dialogue is from the Atrium floor so barely audible.

VELA: Yes?

HARPER: Are you… Are you OK?

VELA: I'm fine.

HARPER: Can I…

VELA: What?

HARPER: You looked –

VELA: I'm fine.

HARPER: …

VELA: Do you need something?

HARPER: No, I'm fine.

VELA: Good.

HARPER: I'm about to do the new visualisation with the, if you want to –

VELA: I've got a lot to get on with.

HARPER: Of course.

VELA walks away. HARPER comes up the stairs to address the audience.

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