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Nine Night

Written by Natasha Gordon


DOI: 10.5040/9781784604929.00000002
Scene 8

Robert - I was being a dick. You do the eulogy.

Lorraine ignores him. Goes to the fridge and takes out a bag of chicken wings.

Robert - I’ll do that.

Lorraine - What?

Robert - I’m at loose end this afternoon. Might as well help.

Lorraine - Help? To season chicken?

Robert - I can cook, Lorraine.

Lorraine - It’s wings. They need plucking first.

Robert - I know how to prepare wings.

Beat. She hands him the bag of wings.

Lorraine - Alright.

Robert - You got any gloves?

Lorraine - No. I use my hands.

Robert - Right.

He stands holding the bag awkwardly.

Lorraine - I’ll just carry on, shall I?

Robert - I normally use gloves.

Lorraine takes back the bag of wings and starts preparing them. Robert watches her.

Robert - I don’t know how you’re doing all this?

Lorraine - Doing all what?

Robert - It’s admirable, sis, but then you’ve always been like that. Busy.
Beat

Robert - I keep thinking, any minute now, she’s gonna appear at the bottom of the stairs.
And give me that look. You know the one?

Lorraine - Why are you still here?

Robert - What?

Lorraine - Normally, you can’t get out the door fast enough.

Robert - I need to talk to you, Lorraine.

Beat.

I know this guy. A property developer. He’s interested in the house.

Lorraine - Which house?

Robert - Come on, Lorraine –

Lorraine - You’re not serious?

Robert - He approached me –

Lorraine - You bloody are / as well –

Robert - He’s got several properties in the area –

Lorraine - Robert, go home –

Robert - We can get this done quite quickly –

Lorraine - Have you no shame? She’s still in here. Do you understand?

Robert - Where? Where is she? You keep saying that… I can’t sleep in here like you do. It’s
not what she’d want –

Lorraine - Don’t talk to me about what my mum would want –

Robert - At some point, we’ve got to sell / the house –

Lorraine - This isn’t property. This is her home. Our home. Three weeks ago she sat on that
chair, laughing with Rosa and singing nursery rhymes, so don’t / you dare –

Robert - She worked three jobs to keep this roof over our heads. And what? You wanna
watch the value diminish, out of sentiment?
Lorraine - Okay. You need to go now.

Robert - She’s my mum too, Lorraine.

Beat.

Lorraine - It was me that took voluntary redundancy to look after her. Every day for the last
three-and-a-half months, I’ve been here, to hospital, to the chemist and back.
I can’t talk about the house, Robert.
I can talk about anything else.
But not the house.
Not now.
Okay?

Beat.

So. Just go.

Beat.

Robert - I hate it when you do this.

Lorraine - I’ve put more thought into what Mum should look like next Thursday than I have
about myself. I bet you know what you’re wearing? Don’t you?!

Robert - I need money, Lorraine – okay?!

Lorraine - Ha! Of course you do!

Robert - If we get in with this developer now, it works out better for all of us.

Lorraine - For you best. Come on then, why’d you need it? What have you done?

Robert - What have I done? Don’t ask me what I’ve done like I’m some little idiot that arrived
on the scene yesterday. Better to ask me what I do, who I am? –

Lorraine - Oh, get over yourself.

Robert - How long is your redundancy gonna last? The market’s at its peak now, Lorraine.
You need to stock up every penny. When was last time you had to apply for a job?

Let me take care of this now and in a year’s time, you’ll thank me. Trust me, take a leap.

Lorraine - That’s where we differ. Even as kids. By nine months, you’d mastered walking.
Didn’t matter how many times you’d brock yourself up knocking into things, you’d jump up
and crash on, with Mum in awe. Whereas, with me, she thought I was backward because I
was nearly two before I took my first steps. I don’t leap, Robert. I don’t enjoy the feeling of
falling.

Robert - You’re not a kid now, Lorraine. You’re a big grown woman. A mother.

Lorraine - Leave me alone, / Robert –

Robert - I’ve lost her too, Lorraine, I’m not losing any more, do you understand me? I’ve lost
her too, I’m not losing any more…

Silence.
Robert makes to leave.

I’m bringing him round tomorrow afternoon –

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