Mosquitoes by Lucy Kirkwood

Author:Lucy Kirkwood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Drama, Classics, Plays, Theatre, Fiction
ISBN: 9781848425828
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 2017-07-19T23:00:00+00:00

ACT THREE

THE BOSON

The stage is clear except for a puddle of JENNY’s black bile. THE BOSON enters with a mop and bucket and starts to mop it up. As his speech goes on, we become aware his mopping is only making the puddle larger and larger.

THE BOSON. There are five ways for the world to end.

Spoiler alert.

One. The Big Crunch. As you know, the universe is expanding but – sorry am I going too fast?

Fine, in case you didn’t know: the universe is expanding (why didn’t you know that? seriously, read a book some time) but anyway let’s say that the elastic snaps the worm turns and eventually it begins to contract, getting smaller hotter denser, a double decker wrapper in the microwave, till it’s basically just a, just a very compact inferno, so that’s one, okay, two, the Big Freeze, does what it says on the, HEAT DEATH, everything becomes same temperature, the universe is now uniformly cold, dead and empty and nothing interesting ever happens again, number three, the Big Change, dark energy keeps growing, pulling the universe apart, till one day a bubble of lower energy shows up, expands at the speed of light, rewriting the rules of chemistry and destroying humans, planets, stars, et cetera, in at number four, if the amount of dark energy increases too fast we might get a Big Rip, which is, you know, pretty much what it, have you seen Star Trek? kind of like that, atoms shatter and the Earth (understandably) explodes, and by the way no offence, no offence, but it’s unlikely that any of you are able to understand any of this in except in the most rudimentary terms. Most of you probably don’t even know whether any of this is true or not

He pauses. Shields his eyes, scrutinising the front few rows, double-checking.

yeah. No. That’s okay. That’s okay. You’re doing your best, and the thing is, it feels true doesn’t it? The idea that all of this will end in a catastrophe over which we have no power, that’s a given, that is a familiar and strangely comforting fact, be it fire, ice, cosmic menopause, atomic obliteration, or a contagion perhaps, a virus spreading too fast for us to control, an ice floe melting too quickly, a shortage of food, a war over water, a bad day on the golf course for a sociopath with access to the nuclear codes, or for example, for example number five, one day you’re at home cooking this soup I mean not from scratch or anything but you know you got that carton open so you’re feeling pretty fucking pleased with yourself and as it starts to bubble you become aware your blood has been replaced by battery acid and this is, yeah it’s a disturbing thought but it’s a familiar one, you’ve had this thought before, many times actually but you’ve always been able to receive it with a kind of like a healthy skepticism, the way you think about

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