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Robert Holman

A Breakfast of Eels (NHB Modern Plays)

In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground. It is the day of Daddy’s funeral, and two orphans find themselves suddenly alone, with nobody to cling to but each other.
Robert Holman's play A Breakfast of Eels was premiered at the Print Room at the Coronet, London, in March 2015.
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2015
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2015
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  • Rachael Pennellidézett8 évvel ezelőtt
    shy I am. When I’m not with you I hardly say boo to a goose.

    A slight pause.

    I must seem naive when I have to ask you how to use a condom. I know it appears as if I flit over the surface of things. Why do people think I’m everything I’m not?

    He offers FRANCIS a chocolate. FRANCIS eats one.

    A slight pause.

    What do I do?
  • Rachael Pennellidézett8 évvel ezelőtt
    I care too much what people think.

    He holds out the box.

    It’s a worry.

    FRANCIS. You have the rest of them.

    PENROSE. I worry all the time most people won’t like me. I know I’m too easily bruised. I know I seem quite young.

    FRANCIS. I was young for my age.

    PENROSE. You still are.

    FRANCIS. I looked young.

    PENROSE. You still do.

    A slight pause.

    You’re far cleverer than you realise, which is a wonderful thing.

    A slight pause.

    I don’t know where my confidence went, but it’s gone somewhere. I’m definitely a boy and not a man. I know I don’t help. I learnt to play silly at school when everyone presumed I was gay. I’ve been doing silly ever since.

    A slight pause.

    It hurts, Francis. I can’t get over myself somehow that I’m so unattractive.

    FRANCIS takes a step or two towards him.

    So unsexy and plain. I’m negligible. Who likes a boy?

    A slight pause.

    Cordelia tells me I’m attractive, but she tells me in a very unsexy way. She said I’m frightened of responsibility. It wasn’t a seductive conversation. It hasn’t been me somehow to love a girl in a sexy way, which is why I’m baffled and confused.

    A slight pause.

    We have good fun together.

    He holds out the box. FRANCIS takes a chocolate and eats it.

    It’s courage I’m looking for… I don’t know where it went… the trust I once had in myself. It’s not you, Francis, in case you’re thinking it is. I went through puberty too late, and there’s the rub of the problem. I was mocked because of it. And shy because of it. You’d be surprised at the number of people who don’t realise how
  • Rachael Pennellidézett8 évvel ezelőtt
    I’m not a man, whatever a man is.

    A slight pause.

    I’m too intimidated to be a man.

    He holds out the box.

    Too horrified.

    A slight pause.
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