Mongrel Island by Ed Harris

Author:Ed Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408158692
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Scene Eight

8.00pm. It is raining heavily against the window. Marie is alone, working. Elvis enters; he is wet through.

Marie I’m just finishing up. But then the rain.

Elvis Yeah. Are you getting far?

Marie I have absolutely no idea. How about you?

Elvis How do you mean?

Marie I assume you’ve come back to do your bike?

Elvis Yeah.

Beat.

Marie Seriously. Stay. The room might warm up with two people in it.

Elvis I was coming out my flat, and I was in the lift, just going down and that, and I was thinking about the emergency button. Thinking if I’d’ve done what you did.

Marie Okay.

Elvis By accident. But not by mistake, kinda. Did she hate you?

Marie Sometimes, not. She just decided I quit everything. I got a D in my English A-Level just because the Wife of Bath was shit. And she called that quitting. (Beat.) She was alright, when she was on something. Anti-depressants, or … And you know when you look at someone, and their eyes are just swimming in medicine? And they’re far away. But then she’d come back and … Even dad said he wanted to kill her sometimes. Maybe that’s why he’s having so much trouble; y’know, moving her stuff out.

Marie goes to the filing cabinet and takes out her towel. She holds it out for him.

Marie So. What’s your favourite —

Elvis (Immediately.) ‘Hound Dog’. Because when Elvis Presley was first on the Steve Allen Show, Steve Allen thought Elvis was ‘talentless and absurd’, and used to do things to make him look stupid and that. But Elvis didn’t care, and I like that, and now I only know about Steve Allen because I know about Elvis. No-one knows about Elvis because of Steve Allen, do they?

Marie No. (Pause.) It’s a good song.

Elvis Yeah. It’s okay.

Marie (Pause.) Sorry, I’m going to take my shoes off, they’re killing me. (She does.)

Elvis Do you know who I hate?

Elvis looks at her bare feet. Marie catches him.

Elvis I hate Honey.

Marie Do you remember that day she didn’t come in?

Elvis Yeah, that was good. (Beat.) Sometimes. I want to tell her to shut up. I want to tell her to (Mouths/whispers)’p i s s o f f’.

Marie (Mouths/whispers.) To piss off?

Elvis I want to say: ‘Piss off, Honey.’ Like that.

Marie Yeah?

Elvis That’s what I want to say, anyway.

Marie Hang on.

Marie puts Elvis is his seat at his desk. Marie sits in Honey’s chair.

Marie I’m Honey.

Elvis (Laughs.)

Marie ‘Right: you know the difference between commitment and involvement, do you? Pigs and chickens. Elvis, what’s the difference between pigs and chickens?’

Long pause. Marie eggs him on.

Elvis Piss off.

Marie With the fingers.

Elvis (Sticks up two fingers.) Piss off, Honey. (Laughs.) Piss off, / Honey!

Marie Gold star. Bravo.

Elvis (Says something inaudible.)

Marie Huh?

Elvis (Laughs.)

Marie Go on.

Elvis (Laughs.)

Marie I won’t be offended.

Elvis (Nods.) She’s a ‘c’.

Marie A what, sorry?

Elvis She’s a ‘c’?

Marie And what’s that?

Elvis A ‘c’-unt.

Marie A cunt?

Elvis Maybe.

Marie Say it then. Be proud. What is she?

Elvis She’s a cunt.

Marie She’s a cunt.

Elvis She’s a cunt. She’s a cunt.

Elvis knocks over Honey’s chair.

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