Free Ravenhill Plays: 1: Shopping and F***ing; Faust is Dead; Handbag; Some Explicit Polaroids (Contemporary Dramatists) by Mark Ravenhill Page B

I’m in Tramps, OK? Tramps or Annabel’s, OK?
    Robbie      Which – ?
    Mark      I can’t remember.
    Robbie      Look, you’ve got to –
    Lulu      Go on.
    Mark      Tramps or Annabel’s or somewhere, OK?
    Robbie      If you don’t know where.
    Mark      It doesn’t matter where, OK?
    Robbie      If it’s true then –
    Mark      The place, the name doesn’t matter.
    Lulu      No. It doesn’t matter.
    Robbie      I think you should know –
    Mark      What the fuck does it matter where?
    Lulu      Alright.
    Mark      When what you said was who.
    Lulu      Come on. Who? Who? Who?
    Mark      Tramps or Annabel’s or someplace. Someplace because the place is not of importance, OK? Because the place doesn’t matter. So I’m at this somewhere place –
    Robbie      When?
    Mark      Jesus.
    Lulu      It doesn’t matter.
    Robbie      I want to know when.
    Lulu      Come on, you’re there and –
    Robbie      I want to know when?
    Mark      Sometime. In the past.
    Robbie      The last week past? The last year past? Your childhood past?
    Lulu      The past past.
    Mark      Well I don’t –
    Robbie      Come on –
    Lulu      Why?
    Robbie      Veracity. For the /
    Mark      / alright then alright /
    Robbie      / veracity of it.
    Mark      ’84. ’85. About then. OK?
    Robbie      OK.
    Mark      So I’m in this place – which is maybe Tramps maybe not – and it’s possibly 1985 –
    Robbie      That’s all I wanted to know.
    Mark      I’m having a good time.
    Robbie      Meaning?
    Mark      Meaning a good time. Meaning a time that is good.
    Robbie      Meaning you’ve taken –
    Mark      Meaning I’m having a time that is good.
    Robbie      Because you’ve taken –
    Mark      Not necessarily.
    Robbie      But you had?
    Mark      I don’t know.
    Robbie      Come on. ’84. ’85. You must have been on something.
    Mark      Well yes.
    Robbie      Yes.
    Mark      Probably yes.
    Robbie      Because really when can you say you’re not –
    Mark      What? Go on, what?
    Robbie      When can you say you’re not on something?
    Mark      Now.
    Robbie      Yeah?
    Lulu      Come on. Come on.
    Robbie      You’re sure? Sure that you’re not –
    Mark      Yes.
    Lulu      Let’s – the story.
    Mark      I’m fucking clean, alright?
    Lulu      Come on. ’84. ’85. Tramps. Annabel’s.
    Robbie      Yeah. Right.
    Mark      I mean, what the fuck do I have to – ? I’m clean, OK?
    Lulu      Please. I want to know who.
    Mark      Alright. Just don’t – alright. Tramps. ’84. I’m having a good time.
    Robbie      You’re tripping?
    Mark      No. And I need a piss, yes?
    Lulu      In the toilet?
    Mark      Yes, a piss in the toilet.
    Lulu      This is a toilet story.
    Mark      So, I’m taking my way to the toilet, right? And there’s this woman, OK? This woman is like watching me.
    Lulu      Who? Who? Who?
    Mark      Of course, I should have known then. I should have known who she was.
    Lulu      Who?
    Mark      But I mean I am so –
    Robbie      You’re tripping.
    Mark      No.
    Robbie      You should have known who she was but you’re tripping.
    Mark      Look, I was not tripping.
    Robbie      You didn’t recognise this famous person because you were completely out of it.
    Mark      OK, OK, I was completely out of it.
    Lulu      And you’re on your way to the toilet.
    Mark      Out of it. All I know is that this woman’s eyes are like: give me your veiny bang stick, OK?
    Lulu      Way with words.
    Mark      So I’m pissing. Urinals. I’m pissing in the urinals and in the mirror I can see