Abigail's Party & Goose-Pimples by Mike Leigh

Author:Mike Leigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 1979-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The same. Later that evening.

The room is as Vernon and the others left it.

JACKIE [off, hardly audible]: D’you wanna go through? All right? J ust go through.

[The hall light is switched on.]

[Off, more audibly] Ooh, it’s all dark.

[Jackie enters, wearing a fur jacket and carrying her handbag and a bottle [of whisky. She puts on the main light.

Muhammad enters.]

What’s going on? [Sheputs the bottle on the table.] Had some friends over.

[Muhammad leans against the wall, Jackie puts on the lamp on the wall-unit and goes into the hall.

She exits towards Vernon’s room.]

[Off] Vernon! [She knocks on Vernon’s door.] Vernon.

[Muhammad sits at the table.

Jackie comes back into the room, takes off her jacket and puts it on the sofa.] You all right?

MUHAMMAD: In car; in taxi; in, er…

JACKIE: Mm. Got a bit car-sick?

MUHAMMAD: Er… [He gestures above his head, meaning ‘aeroplane’.]

JACKIE: Yeh, ‘t’s really smoky.

MUHAMMAD: Er…no good.

[Jackie goes to the bar and switches on the lamp there.]

JACKIE: D’you want a whisky? Whisky?

MUHAMMAD: La.1

[Jackie pours herself a wbisky-and-water.]

JACKIE [indicating the sofa]: D’you want to come and sit over here?

[t’s nice and comfortable. Come and sit over here.

MUHAMMAD: I come?

JACKIE: Yeh.

[Muhammad crosses slowly to the sofa. He coughs once on the way.]

MUHAMMAD[as he crosses]: Ismah-ly.2

JACKIE: Mm. Yeh. You sure you don’t want a whisky?

MUHAMMAD: La.

JACKIE: D’you want a glass of water? A glass of water?

MUHAMMAD: Water.

JACKIE [going to the bar]: Yeh, all right. I’ll get you some. ‘T’s best thing, you know, if you’re feeling a bit sick. Flush your system out. I hope Vernon gets back soon. ‘T’s my flatmate. [She hands him a glass of water.] Here y’are. ‘E ‘asn’t really met any of my friends. Be good when ‘e comes back and sees you’ere. That’ll give ‘im a shock. I bet ‘e’s never met an oil sheikh before. [She lights a cigarette.] D’you want a cigarette? Cigarette?

MUHAMMAD: Okay.

[Jackie gives him a cigarette and lights it for him.]

JACKIE: All right? [She sits down.]

[Pause.]

MUHAMMAD: Where this?

JACKIE: What?

MUHAMMAD: Where…this?

JACKIE: Here? This is my flat, yeh? ‘T’s where I live.

MUHAMMAD: No London?

JACKIE: Yeh, it’s London. ‘T’s Dollis Hill.

MUHAMMAD: Big, big.

JACKIE: Oh, yeh, it’s two-bedroomed, you know.

[Muhammadfinishes the water.]

D’you want another one?

[Muhammad does Hot understand.]

D’you want some more water?

[Muhammad makes a vague, affirmative gesture.]

Yeh, all right, I’ll get you some.

[Jackie goes to the bar, and pours the water. Muhammad stubs out the cigarette in an ashtray.]

MUHAMMAD: Excuse. [He coughs.]

JACKIE: Here you are. I’ll stick it down here, all right? [She puts the glass on the floor beside him.]

MUHAMMAD: Ismah-ly.3 Make, er…Where?

JACKIE: What?

MUHAMMAD: Water.

JACKIE: It’s down there, yeh? It’s on the floor.

MUHAMMAD: Okay. [He picks it up slowly.]

[Pause.]

JACKIE: ’Ow long you been over here?

MUHAMMAD: Excuse?

JACKIE: ’Ow long ‘ave you been in London?

MUHAMMAD: London, big, big.

JACKIE: Yeh. You over ‘ere on business?

MUHAMMAD: Business, business.

JACKIE: What sort of business you doing over ‘ere? Is it deals with BP and that, yeh?

MUHAMMAD: Business ma’a4 Abdullah.

JACKIE: Oh, you do business with Abdullah?

MUHAMMAD: Business ma’a Abdullah.

JACKIE: Yeh.

MUHAMMAD: Wa5 Ibrahim; you know?

JACKIE: Yeh…

MUHAMMAD: Wa Marwan. You know him?

JACKIE: Yeh…No. No, I know Abdullah.

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