Faith, Hope and Charity by Alexander Zeldin

Author:Alexander Zeldin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Act Three

Valentine’s Day. It is the coldest week of the year and the characters wear corresponding layers.

Mason comes in with a few things dripping with water, followed by Hazel.

Mason These are less damaged like

Hazel Ok

Mason Shall I put them out there or?

Hazel Yes for now there

We can’t let anybody go in there now if they

Mason No no out of bounds

Hazel If there was an accident or what /

Mason Totally get it

I’ll go and mop up or something

Later.

Hazel Oh Mason what about the piano?

Mason Fuck

He runs into the other room to go and get the piano.

Hazel Does it still work?

Mason Let’s see

He goes to the wall, plugs it in. Hazel looks out of the window.

Moment of suspense. Mason turns it on.

Mason Ok

It doesn’t work at first – silence.

In silence he realises it’s probably broken.

Hazel Is it broken?

Can you get another one?

Mason Not likely

I should have

Taken it home with me

It’s been really bad in there the last couple of weeks this rain is freakish like fair enough I’ve never seen it that before it’s so foul like the roof and Marc hasn’t been using it for ages so I could’ve just taken it home it’s worse than last year fucking freakish storm shit. Sorry. Sorry Hazel.

Ah . . .

He’s really upset but he tries again, nudges the keyboard around in some way, in the way that sometimes when we nudge a piece of electronic equipment, for some reason it begins to work.

He presses a button and one of the preset demos comes on.

Oh thank God thank God!

They laugh.

We’ll do the choir practice in here right?

Hazel Yeh

She sits and thinks about the lunch.

Enter Tharwa with Tala.

Hazel Hiya

Tharwa Hi Hazel what happened here today

Hazel Yeh oh I’m so sorry love

We aren’t able to do a lunch today, we’ve had some flooding and the kitchen is out / and Mason

Mason We’ve had /

Hazel And I we’ve had to fix it / yeh

Mason Fix it yeh sorry so / sorry

Hazel Sorry about the lunch I put it on my Facebook /

Tharwa Oh so there is no food.

Tala I’m hungry Mummy!

(To Mason.) Is there still the choir?!

Mason Oh yeh

Yeh we’ll do it but it’s gonna be down here that’s all

Tharwa (in Arabic) Tala come to me

Tala CAN I GO TO THE CHOIR?

Tharwa We come back for the choir

Hazel I’m so sorry

Tharwa No

It’s ok it’s ok

Tala I’m hungry

Hazel But we have biscuits and

Tharwa No no it’s ok thank you

Thank you.

Tala We come back for the choir! For the singing!

Tharwa Ok.

Hazel Sorry

Tharwa and Tala leave. Silence.

Hazel We must have something something we can

She goes to the kitchen, opens the hatch for a bit – we see some damage through it.

Maybe some sandwiches I’ve got bread and mayonnaise and

Mason There’s some cheese

Long silence as they make food – they are rebuilding something.

The bird flutters, but they don’t speak about it.

Gently, there are a few lines about how to cut the sandwiches – Mason is cutting everything as if for children, in fours. Hazel notices.

Hazel Cut it like this like adult?

Mason Yep of course ok

Silence again.

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