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I am madly in love with Caryl Churchill. I just finished reading Cloud
9. If only the intense and dizzying adoration I feel for artists could
be manifested in my relationships another human being. Like, a person I'm in a real-life relationship with.
CLIVE. Let me tell you something first. Since you came to the house I have had an erection twenty-four hours a day except for ten minutes after the time we had intercourse.
MRS. SAUNDERS I don't think that's physically possible.
CLIVE. You are causing me appalling physical suffering.
CLIVE. Caroline, if you were shot with poisoned arrows do you know what I'd do? I'd fuck your dead body and poison myself.
EDWARD (9 year old boy, played by a girl). Harry, I love you.
HARRY (friend of the family, 30s or 40s). Yes I know. I love you too.
EDWARD. You know what we did when you were here before. I want to do it again. I think about it all the time. I try to do it to myself but it's not as good. Don't you want to any more?
HARRY. I do, but it's a sin and a crime and it's also wrong.
EDWARD. But we'll do it anyway won't we?
HARRY. Yes of course.
MAUD (on her grandchildren's nanny). Betty, why do you let that girl mope about in her own room? That's not what she's come to Africa for.
CLIVE. Women are irrational, demanding, inconsistent, treacherous, lustful, and they smell different from us.
HARRY. I suppose getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.
CATHY (4 year old girl, played by a man). I never paint spacemen. You know I never.
LIN (her mother). Paint a car crash and blood everywhere.
EDWARD. Puking Jesus.
LIN. That was news was it, leaving your father?
EDWARD. They're going to want so much attention.
VICTORIA. Does everybody hate their mothers?
GERRY. He was jerking off with his left hand, and I could see he'd got a fairsized one. I wished he'd keep still so I could see his watch.
MARTIN. You should ask your mother what she thinks and then do the opposite.
MARTIN. I'm not putting any pressure on you but I don't think you're being a whole person. God knows I do everything I can to make you stand on your own two feet. Just be yourself. You don't seem to realise how insulting it is to me that you can't get yourself together.
MARTIN. Do you know if you put cocaine on your prick you can keep up it all night? The only thing is of course it goes numb so you don't feel anything. But you would, that's the main thing. I just want to make you happy.
EDWARD. I like women.
VICTORIA (his sister). That should please mother.
EDWARD. No listen Vicky. I'd rather be a woman. I wish I had breasts like that, I think they're beautiful. Can I touch them?
VICTORIA. What, pretending they're yours?
EDWARD. No, I know it's you.
VICTORIA. I think I should warn you I'm enjoying this.
EDWARD. I'm sick of men.
VICTORIA. I'm sick of men.
EDWARD. I think I'm a lesbian.
LIN (attempting to call down the goddess during seance/orgy). She won't appear with a man here.
VICTORIA. They had men, they had sons and lovers.
EDWARD. They had eunuchs.
LIN. Don't give us ideas.
LIN. Don't turn it into a lecture, Vicky, it's mean to be an orgy.
VICTORIA. It never hurts to understand the theoretical background. You can't seperate fucking and economics.
MARTIN. I was all for the sixties when liberation just meant fucking.
LIN (during seance/orgy). Have you come back to tell us something?
SOLDIER (her brother, less than a year dead). No I've come for a fuck.
BETTY. But if there isn't a right way to do things you have to invent one.
CLIVE. Let me tell you something first. Since you came to the house I have had an erection twenty-four hours a day except for ten minutes after the time we had intercourse.
MRS. SAUNDERS I don't think that's physically possible.
CLIVE. You are causing me appalling physical suffering.
CLIVE. Caroline, if you were shot with poisoned arrows do you know what I'd do? I'd fuck your dead body and poison myself.
EDWARD (9 year old boy, played by a girl). Harry, I love you.
HARRY (friend of the family, 30s or 40s). Yes I know. I love you too.
EDWARD. You know what we did when you were here before. I want to do it again. I think about it all the time. I try to do it to myself but it's not as good. Don't you want to any more?
HARRY. I do, but it's a sin and a crime and it's also wrong.
EDWARD. But we'll do it anyway won't we?
HARRY. Yes of course.
MAUD (on her grandchildren's nanny). Betty, why do you let that girl mope about in her own room? That's not what she's come to Africa for.
CLIVE. Women are irrational, demanding, inconsistent, treacherous, lustful, and they smell different from us.
HARRY. I suppose getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.
CATHY (4 year old girl, played by a man). I never paint spacemen. You know I never.
LIN (her mother). Paint a car crash and blood everywhere.
EDWARD. Puking Jesus.
LIN. That was news was it, leaving your father?
EDWARD. They're going to want so much attention.
VICTORIA. Does everybody hate their mothers?
GERRY. He was jerking off with his left hand, and I could see he'd got a fairsized one. I wished he'd keep still so I could see his watch.
MARTIN. You should ask your mother what she thinks and then do the opposite.
MARTIN. I'm not putting any pressure on you but I don't think you're being a whole person. God knows I do everything I can to make you stand on your own two feet. Just be yourself. You don't seem to realise how insulting it is to me that you can't get yourself together.
MARTIN. Do you know if you put cocaine on your prick you can keep up it all night? The only thing is of course it goes numb so you don't feel anything. But you would, that's the main thing. I just want to make you happy.
EDWARD. I like women.
VICTORIA (his sister). That should please mother.
EDWARD. No listen Vicky. I'd rather be a woman. I wish I had breasts like that, I think they're beautiful. Can I touch them?
VICTORIA. What, pretending they're yours?
EDWARD. No, I know it's you.
VICTORIA. I think I should warn you I'm enjoying this.
EDWARD. I'm sick of men.
VICTORIA. I'm sick of men.
EDWARD. I think I'm a lesbian.
LIN (attempting to call down the goddess during seance/orgy). She won't appear with a man here.
VICTORIA. They had men, they had sons and lovers.
EDWARD. They had eunuchs.
LIN. Don't give us ideas.
LIN. Don't turn it into a lecture, Vicky, it's mean to be an orgy.
VICTORIA. It never hurts to understand the theoretical background. You can't seperate fucking and economics.
MARTIN. I was all for the sixties when liberation just meant fucking.
LIN (during seance/orgy). Have you come back to tell us something?
SOLDIER (her brother, less than a year dead). No I've come for a fuck.
BETTY. But if there isn't a right way to do things you have to invent one.