debbie tucker green plays by debbie tucker green

Author:debbie tucker green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

Five

‘The Prescription.’

HUSBAND ‘I’m not fightin for it’

WIFE EGO leans back body language denyin his lie.

HUSBAND EGO She on the front foot for effect.

WIFE ‘I’m not gonna act like I won’t.’

Beat.

HUSBAND ‘But I am fitter’

WIFE EGO laid it back like it ent fightin talk

WIFE ‘I’m younger.’

HUSBAND ‘But I’m stronger.’

HUSBAND EGO She on the metaphorical lookaway

WIFE ‘but I’m smart–’

WIFE EGO he eyes to the skies it

WIFE ‘–ter. I’m smarter. I am.’

HUSBAND ‘I earn more – ’

WIFE ‘not enough to cover two’

HUSBAND ‘more’n we need for one.’

WIFE ‘What – so the other can watch the other stay well in comfort?’

WIFE EGO Stung an’ on the step back. Nice. Watch – hand out to the side – watch, watch – reachin for the chair –

WIFE ‘or enough for a hot hired-in home help?’

HUSBAND EGO Lean on the chair back

WIFE EGO think he’s gonna fling it –

HUSBAND EGO she’s on the flinch and I don’t know why

WIFE EGO sits instead.

HUSBAND EGO Sit at her front. Sit at the front of it, sit at her fuckin front of it.

WIFE EGO He on the lean forward

HUSBAND EGO she on the step back.

HUSBAND ‘You scared a somethin?’

HUSBAND EGO She eyes away it.

WIFE EGO Doin the dance that we do.

WIFE ‘What I gotta be scared of?’

HUSBAND It’s me who’s scared a you

WIFE what?

WIFE EGO Mumblin – mumblin –

WIFE ‘what?’

HUSBAND It’s me who’s –

WIFE ‘what?’

HUSBAND ‘It’s me who’s scared a you.’

WIFE EGO He on the lean back.

HUSBAND EGO She eases forward.

HUSBAND ‘I can earn more.’

WIFE ‘I can adapt more.’

HUSBAND ‘I can work longer – ’

WIFE ‘I can work nearer.’

WIFE EGO Eyes to the floor. Eyes to the sky then. He eyes the gods and away from anywhere near me.

WIFE ‘Lookin for somethin?’

WIFE EGO He eyes to the skies stayin / there.

WIFE ‘Lookin for something?’

HUSBAND ‘I can support the girls – ’

WIFE ‘this ain’t about the girls’

HUSBAND ‘I can / support – ’

WIFE ‘you bringin the girls into this? Don’t be bringing our girls / into this.’

HUSBAND ‘I can talk to the girls’

WIFE ‘our girls don’t need talkin to – ’

HUSBAND ‘I can support / the girls’

H. AND WIFE EGO fight.

WIFE ‘I can raise the girls – ’

H. AND WIFE EGO fight.

HUSBAND ‘I can teach the girls’

H. AND WIFE EGO fight

WIFE ‘what?’

HUSBAND ‘I can teach the girls – ’

WIFE ‘exactly what?’

H. AND WIFE EGO Fight –

WIFE ‘Firstborn don’t need teachin and Mary thinks she knows it all.’

HUSBAND ‘Where she get that from?’

WIFE ‘I wonder.’

HUSBAND ‘Do that.’

HUSBAND EGO Mouth on her like her mother.

HUSBAND ‘Mary’s like her mother – ’

WIFE ‘an’ Firstborn’s like her father – God help / her – ’

HUSBAND ‘They’ll need their father.’

HUSBAND EGO Me.

WIFE EGO Fight.

WIFE ‘The girls’ll need their mother.’

WIFE EGO Me.

HUSBAND EGO Fight.

HUSBAND ‘I can protect the girls – ’

WIFE ‘I can protect the / girls – ’

HUSBAND ‘you don’t call this fightin?’

WIFE ‘This ain’t fightin – ’

HUSBAND ‘you wouldn’t call this / fightin?’

WIFE ‘This ain’t fightin – ’

HUSBAND ‘This ain’t fightin?’

WIFE ‘This ain’t fightin – you still standin an’ the prescription ain’t mine / yet’

HUSBAND

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