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    Eggs (NHB Modern Plays)
    Eggs (NHB Modern Plays)
    Eggs (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Eggs (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Florence Keith-Roach

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    A dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out, by Florence Keith-Roach, 'rising star of the London theatre scene' (Evening Standard).
    Two women, living very different lives, are united by their quick wit, love of nineties' dance music and a mounting alienation.
    Eggs was first performed as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was selected for the 2016 VAULT Festival, London. It is also available in the volume Plays from VAULT.
    'a neat exploration of female friendship... authentically honest and amusing... an unexpected treat' - Evening Standard
    'Honest. Human. Real. Frank. Funny. Achingly relevant' - Broadway Baby
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateFeb 18, 2016
    ISBN9781780017198
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      Eggs (NHB Modern Plays) - Florence Keith-Roach

      For Lily

      Acknowledgements

      With very special thanks to Maud Dromgoole; dramaturg and director of Eggs in Edinburgh.

      Eternal gratitude to Michal Murawski, the ultimate polo-necked pundit, Wendy and Stephen Keith-Roach, Christine Bramwell, Imy Wyatt-Corner, Stuart Snaith, Charlie Hanson, Eloise Lawson, Imogen Lloyd, Zander Levy, Emily Bartelott, Coral Amiga, Tor Lupton, Harriet Green, Lauren Cooney, James Lambert, the Cheetham family, Chiara Goldsmith, George Belfield & Sex Club (may this stand as an homage to our symposia!).

      F. K-R.

      Eggs was first performed at VAULT Festival, London, on 24 February 2016, with the following cast:

      Eggs is brought to you by Orphee Productions, a female-led collective dedicated to telling stories which challenge gender disparity.

      A work-in-progress version of Eggs premiered at the Edinburgh Free Fringe 2015.

      Characters

      GIRL ONE

      GIRL TWO

      A dash (–) indicates the next line interrupts.

      A forward slash (/) indicates an overlap.

      Scene One

      A hospital. March. 2016. The end.

      GIRL ONE. It’s not just the eggs themselves, it’s the hypocrisy of the vegetarians who eat them.

      GIRL TWO. What else have they got to eat?

      GIRL ONE. It’s really weird, think about it?

      GIRL TWO. No actually, can you stop. I don’t want to think about eggs any more, thank you.

      GIRL ONE. Okay, okay, so I was at a café the other day with Save-the-world Suki and she spent, ah so long, tut, tut, tutting up and down the menu, whinging that it wasn’t ‘veggie friendly’, whatever that means? Only to shut up, finally, and agree to have a Spanish omelette. Now, I didn’t think anything of it either, at first, I was just thinking how absurd Suki has gotten –

      GIRL TWO. Yeah, she really has, why did you –

      GIRL ONE. But the next morning, I found myself cracking an egg for my dad, like the 1950s house-slave that I am –

      GIRL TWO. Ha, that’s what you get for still living at home –

      GIRL ONE. And I looked into this orange orb floating in a glistening, gooey, well, placenta –

      GIRL TWO. Ahhhhhhh –

      GIRL ONE. And it hit me. WOW. This is an unborn chicken. This is so much an unborn chicken that it is almost grossing ME out and I am a proper carnivore. I’m, like, the first to be mouth-deep in some still-beating blood and muscle. But even I can see that there is something really dark about eating an unborn child.

      GIRL TWO. You’re chatting shit, complete unscientific shit. An egg is not an embryo, it’s not yet fertilised.

      GIRL ONE. Oh, come on? I am not talking scientifically, I am talking emotionally! Like, it’s just as bad as eating a normal adult animal. Way worse even. Cos your average mature pig has probably led, in animal years and as long as you don’t get any of that factory-farmed stuff, a pretty long and happy life. You know, in the bosom of her loving, surprisingly hygienic family, a little hut to rest her snout in, the gentle hum of the A303 rolling by. Charming. Whereas, here, here is this aborted thing, this thing with the promise of a life filled with fields and feed, ripped from its mother’s downy breast and shoved into a cardboard box to be devoured by the pointed incisors of holier-than-thou hypocrites!

      Pause.

      Sorry, I didn’t mean to go on about its unfulfilled life or anything. That wasn’t very… Considering you just… I’m not against

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