Act 2, Scene 1 Flashcards
studies Milly in costume
Put me down for a tenner on the two-thirty
M: I know, I look ridiculous
No you don’t
M: It’s something I do rather well. Always had a knack for it.
You look very Cheltenham Gold Cup. Our Rose is going to be all over you
M: I must say Rose really helps when you’re shy
It has been said. I feel like a dog on a lead with this collar and tie
M: You’ll get the hang of it
Hanging sounds about right. And what about the hat? I’m going to look a right noodle in the hat.
M: You’ll get used to that too. Feeling like a noodle. It sort of grows on you
Hats were everywhere in those days. Fancy arresting someone in the shade of one of these
D: Thank you Milly, and what do you think?
I think it’s amazing what technology can do these days
D: You don’t like it
I like it. But I’m thinking if that’s been there all the time why have I been living with this….
D: Watch it!
I am watching it. Can you keep it for afters. For leisure purposes.
D: No, it has to go back
Could we keep it over the weekend?
D: I’ll get Chinese on it. You know how it splashes
We’ll go ethnic. Fish and Chips but no mushy peas.
D: What do you have in mind Big Boy
I told you. No mushy peas. But when playtime’s over just remember there’s that sink full of mucky pots
D: Oh let yourself go, it’s fantasy time
I thought we’d done that
D: not since Brenda’s wedding
Liverpool were playing…I wasn’t at Brenda’s wedding!
D: You should have been, it was fun
Who with?
D (to M): And look at this handsome creature
How much fun?
D: It got better after half time
Best we could do was a draw
D: oh we did better than that. You see how easily you could lose me?
Not til you’ve cleared that sink!
D: Some of the dishes are yours
I can’t be washing up when I’m busy
D: I can’t remember seeing you busy
It doesn’t show. That’s the thing about intellectual activity
D: It certainly doesn’t show the way you do it
You can be wrestling with the deepest problems of the universe and people think you’re just lolling about. Ask Milly, he’ll tell you.
I’m just a computer geek. Get me off that and I’m lost
You’ve no view then on will the expanding universe result in total, dark, emptiness?
M (to R): I’d say that’s definitely not a what
That’s the first time I’ve seen you with more skirt than legs.
R: he looks so dashing. As if he’s about to ride off with somebody flung across his saddle
Why not? You’ve been everywhere else.
E: our corpse. The butler, recently deceased. I think he should die just about….here.
At least they’ll know the butler didn’t do it.
D: I think you look really edible in a bowler
It’s thoughts like that could get you arrested
R: I’ll stand with Mr Milson. He needs some human warmth
He doesn’t need blisters!
M: I don’t mind supporting Miss Rose if she’s about to faint.
R: Isn’t he a sweety?
Faint? Our Rose? She frightens Australians!
E: She’s the cook not a ballerina
I’ll go with that. I’ve never seen our Hyacinth as a ballerina
D: You once said you’d like to see me in a tutu
I could have been drunk, or lying.
H: Who’s that?
It’s Onslow
H: Are you dressed appropriately
Depends what you’ve got in mind
E: He’s in a suit and tie
And bowler hat
H: who’s that lying on the floor
It’s the corpse
H: (long phone monologue ends….” Have you tried removing his trousers? Not Bruce’s dear, Daddy’s. Daisy sometimes finds its the only way
Sounds like Daze
H: ….Ready when you are Emmet. Oh! Has he gone?
To take a pill
E: PLaces people. Nice, tight half circle around the corpse. Tighter, closer.
D: you heard the man
Tonight, Daze. I promised me a beer and a quiet hour catching up with developments in quantum theory
R: I don’t know but I keep trying
Get off his neck! Can you breath Milly?
