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1. THE MORNING AFTE MARY is folding clothes into a plastic bag. A green jacket. Blue leggings. Pink trainers. The clothes are dirty and have blood on them The FURIES, a chorus of women (at least 3, 100 is better) watch Furie
We are not happy No. We are not too happy
DC MOODY approaches DC Mood
Mary?
Mar
Yeah
DC Mood
Hiya, I’m DC Moody.
Mar
Hiya
DC Mood
You alright
Mar
Yeah.
DC Mood
Good
Mar
Yeah
DC Mood
Great
Pause. He smiles Mar
So we / gonna –
DC Moody
Okay, yeah, now, just to let you know, we’ve got another lady who’s coming to the station for the same reason as you, and you can, you know, you can chat, we can chat, that’s ne, but I will have to ask you not to discuss anything about / th
Mary
No, yeah, course
DC Moody
great and that’s just so, if they ask you in court, did you discuss the, the incident, you can say, honestly, you can say, no we didn’t. Is that alright
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Yeah course that’s ne
DC Moody
Cos that’s quite important cos we don’t want to risk the conviction, if we, if it gets that far, do we
Mary
No, yeah
DC Moody
Great
MARY 2 enters. She is wearing a Victorian dress and modern trainers Mar
Alright? I’m
She stops herself. Mary
Is it okay / to
DC Moody
Yeah, names are ne, you can say names
Mary
I’m Mary
DC Mood
You’re gonna laugh
Mary and Mary
What
DC Mood
No, I just, she’s gonna, you’re gonna. When you
He makes a gesture, ‘tell her’ Mary
Um. I’m Mary too
Mar
Oh right
DC Mood
What are the odds! I mean, it’s quite a common, isn’t it, so probably quite, but still, you know, it’s – okay, let’s get this show on the road
Mar
Where is it
DC Mood
What love
Mar
The police car
DC Mood
Oh, it’s round the corner. Just to warn you, it’s a banger. “My other car’s a Porsche!
He laughs
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Mar
What
DC Mood
No, I was just – although it is, actually, my other car is, well it’s not a Porsche but it is, it is a BMW so
Mary
Why
DC Moody Mary
Oh. Ha. Good question! No, I mean it was a very good investment A car’s never a good investment
DC Moody Mary
No A car can only depreciate
DC Moody
Yes. Well, my wife would say the same, shall we
The lines for the Questionnaire scenes should be distributed among the FURIES. Single lines can be said by multiple voices at the same time. Lines in bold are said by all of them Furie
Please state from one to ve if you agree or disagree with the following statements, with 1 being “disagree strongly” and 5 being “agree strongly”. 1. My environment is important to me 2. Adequate parking is available on my street 3. Locally there is an active and visible local Neighbourhood Watch presence locally 4. I feel generally safe in my normal daily life and never wonder why I am so obsessed with podcasts about serial killers. 5. In my postcode there is regular and satisfactory collection of household refuse, recycling, green waste and male rage
DOWN THE STATIO DC EDDOWES pulls on a pair of disposable gloves. MARY hands her the plastic bag of clothes. DC Eddowes
You’ll be able to reclaim the items if you want, but it’ll depend on how long the trial takes, if there is / one, s
Mar
I don’t, I don’t want them back
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DC Eddowes
No, that’s what most people say. Did someone examine you when you made the report
Mary
No
DC Eddowes No, well do you mind if we do a quick one now
Mary
Yeah I dunno, I / don’t
DC Eddowes
Only external, just says here there was some, um, is it some bruising, yeah? On your legs? And your tummy, is it? Cos if I could just take some photos of that / the
Mary
Yeah ne
DC Eddowes That okay is it Mary Mary
Yeah
DC Eddowes
Alright, thank you, if you can just pop your joggers down then, won’t be a sec
MARY pulls down her joggers and lifts her t-shirt to show her stomach. DC EDDOWES takes photos MARY 2 is in the ID room. DC EDDOWES leaves MARY and enters DC Eddowe
Sorry to keep you waiting, my name’s DC Eddowes but you can call me Mary if you want, d’you understand what we’re doing this evening
Mary
Yeah I, I think so
DC Eddowe
Great, okay if you take a look at the computer, Mary, you’re going to see some faces, you’re going to see nine faces today, and what would be great is if you could tell me if you recognise any of them as the man who assaulted you. Just take your time.
Images of nine MEN in turn, all wearing identical black beanie hats. Each image has a number at the top left corner, from one to nine. Maybe the faces are projected, or blown up headshots held up by the FURIES. When we have seen all of them, a pause
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DC Eddowe
Like I say, just…take your time
Mary
They’re all wearing hats
DC Eddowe
Yes, that’s correct
Mary
No just. Cos the only bit of his face I could see was his forehead, which I remember it really clearly cos he had like this scar? But that’s, with the hats it’s hard to
DC Eddowe
I understand
Mary
Have you got any
DC Eddowe
Without hats
Mary
Yeah
DC Eddowe
No.
Mary
Oh
DC Eddowe
Would you like to see any of the images again
Pause Mary 2
No. I dunno
Number two NUMBER TWO appears again. A long pause DC Eddowe
Remember, you don’t have to identify anyone
Mary
No. But I want to
Furie
PLEASE TICK YES OR NO 6. From time to time I’ve borrowed small amounts of comestible items from my neighbours including but not limited to sugar 7. I would leave my immediate neighbour in charge of my small child, demented parent or beloved pet
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8. Sometimes I smell other people’s cooking at dinner time and think “that smells nice, I wonder what they’re having?” 9. Sometimes I smell other people’s cooking at dinner time and think “that smells horrible why are they always frying onions don’t they know there’s recipes that don’t include onions?” 10. Delete as appropriate: I like to grow sun owers tomatoes begonias runner beans high grade marijuana all of the above 11. I have never hitch-hiked around the UK or gone for a long run at night mostly but not entirely because those things sound like they would be very boring 12. My mother told me to always aim for the Adam’s apple HAT MARY comes out of the interview room. DC MOODY is waiting. DC Mood
How was that
Mar
They all had hats! Only thing I could remember, he had like a big scar on his forehead, like a Y, that’s the only thing I was certain about, and they all had fucking hats on
DC Mood
No, I know, listen, that’s because, I can’t tell you, the haircuts on these bastards. They all had such awful haircuts, so I had to put hats on them or you would have been sick. Did you pick anyone
MARY stares at him. Is he thick? Mary
No. They all had hats
DC Mood
No, listen, that’s alright, no-one else did either.
MARY 2 enters Mar
You didn’t pick anyone
Mary 2
No. They were all wearing hats.
Mar
That’s what I was just
DC Moody
Look, I’ll tell you what it is, say you remember 100 percent the, the suspect had a big…wart on his arm or whatever. And just by chance, we bring in someone totally different with the exact same wart, you might ID an innocent person. Right? Cos the
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wart’s such a strong, you know, identifying...thing. So if there was something distinctive about one of the suspects, we cover it up, does that make sense now Mary
It sounds like total fucking shit but whatever
Pause DC Mood
Right well I bet you girls are ready for home, anyone need a wee? No? Good, okay, I’ll meet you in the car park, just need to pick up some bits from the of ce
He starts to leave, turns back DC Mood
I’m just gonna remind you, I know you’re gonna want to chat about all this but I need to ask / you to
Mar
yeah, we got it, keep your mouths shut, cheers
She walks off. MARY 2 follows her Furies
13. If a neighbour had the energy to organise a street party on a warm summer’s evening then I’d probably go, as long as I didn’t have to bake anything. 14. I do wish there was a shop slash pub slash feminist utopian society a bit closer 15. If my partner is away either on business or possibly conducting an affair with that non-entity from head of ce I check the doors and windows at least three times before I can go to sleep 16. If I was attacked and left for dead I know which doors on my street I would drag my bloodied carcass to knock on and which ones I wouldn’t
The following three lines in italics are for all women of colour in the cast 17. If I was attacked and left for dead I cannot guarantee the Police would not take photographs slash sel es with my dead body 17. If I was attacked and left for dead, I cannot guarantee the Police would not take photographs slash sel es with my dead body and post them on Whatsapp 17. If I was attacked and left for dead, I cannot guarantee the Police would do anything
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18. One day someone’s going to break their neck on that paving stone CARPAR MARY and MARY 2 are waiting Mary
D’you know what that shop was, over the road? Where Domino’s is now? It was a printer’s. They printed lea ets for the suffragettes. They did it for free. Husband and wife, they lived above the shop. He used to take motorbikes apart in the bath
Mar
Wow that’s incredibly fascinating
Mary
I know you’re being sarcastic but I don’t care
DC EDDOWES comes out for a cigarette or a vape DC Eddowe
Everything okay ladies
Mary
Your colleague said he was gonna give us a lift
DC Eddowe
Oh right
Pause. She smokes DC Eddowe
What you up tomorrow then
MARY stares at her Mar
Are you serious? (to MARY 2) Is she serious
Mary
I know
DC Eddowe
Sorry, I was just trying / t
Mar
“What you up to tomorrow?”, what does she think I’m / gonna be
Mary
Having a bloody…like, spa day
Mar
D’you know what I mean though
DC Eddowe
Obviously I didn’t mean to minimise what / you’ve bot
Mary 2
Seriously, d’you even get training? Do they tell you to say this stuff or are you just like, freestyling
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Mar
Alright, here’s what I’m gonna do tomorrow: I’m gonna go Wilkos and buy a breadknife / and the
DC Eddowe
Okay, I think / we’re getting a bit
Mar
no and then I’m gonna go out and I’m gonna nd someone with a scar like a Y on his forehead, and even if it’s not him right? even if it’s a totally different man who out of some like weird coincidence’s got exactly the same weird scar, I’m gonna slide this breadknife into his belly, and I’m gonna watch the fear rise in his eyes and I’m gonna snap off the handle so he can’t get it out again, and I’m gonna watch his ngers scrabbling, trying to pull it out yeah and then when he looks at me, in my eyes you get me, and he goes help help and he goes no no and he goes stop stop I am just gonna, I tell you, I’m just gonna look back at him and laugh and laugh and laugh and then I’m gonna go chicken shop. Have some wings
Pause DC Eddowe
I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that
DC EDDOWES leaves. The [UNBEARABLE SOUND] could be a recording that is played by an operator, or operated onstage by one of the FURIES. It could be the sound made by a physical action. It could be every FURY screaming in unison. Furie
20. When I am walking from the tube to my house, I keep my phone in my bra and my keys in my hand. 36. There is not enough green space near my home in which I have never been attacked by a man’s dog while menstruating 90. I regularly pass a group of teenage boys who pay me compliments and spit on me 33. I have Googled how to kick out a tail light from inside the boot of a car 1001. If a handsome stranger sent me a drink in a crowded cocktail bar, I would be too anxious about Rohypnol for it to threaten my marriage in an exciting way. 22. My father once gave me a rape alarm in my Christmas stocking, along with some chocolate money, a scented candle and a walnut
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and every three days a woman is [UNBEARABLE SOUND] by a ma and not all me yes not all me can I just say not all me sure you can say tha thank yo bu what if I gave you a box of ten malteasers and told you two of them weren’t malteasers they were small balls of human shit would you feel a bit anxious while you were eating or would you just crack on
What Exactly THE MOST FRIGHTENING THING OF AL MARY and MARY 2 still waiting. MARY 2 whispers Mary
I was on Wanstead Flats. Behind the Esso.
Mary
You know. When / it.
Mar
Oh
Mary
yeah I was going to my boyfriend’s. Bit stupid, that time of night but he only lives on Herongate Road. When did you, like when did / i
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103. Sometimes I hear her and her boyfriend having screaming rows through the walls in the middle of the night and then there’s thumps and then it goes completely silent and I spend half an hour trying to decide whether to call the police or not but I never do I never do I never ever do.
Mary
Um, like two days ago on Romford Road? I nipped out to get a Mango Lilt and – you ever had Mango Lilt
Mary
No
Mar
No, they discontinued them in 2015 only there’s this newsagent round the corner from me still sells them, I love them, like my boyfriend says I’m addicted, anyway that’s what, that’s what I was, that’s when, cos it wasn’t even dark, not properly
Pause What was he Mary
Shhh, I think he’s coming out
Mar
‘Kay, well, it was nice to meet you
She starts to leave Mary
Wait, where you going
Mar
That policeman does my head in. And I fancy a walk.
Mary
What like, home
Mar
Nah, the Esso. I’m starving
Mary
This time of night
Mar
It’s open twenty four hours
Mary
But why
Mar
Case people need petrol
Mary
No, I mean – it’s not safe out there.
Mar
Police said on the news the streets were safe
Mary
They said he could strike again
Mar
They said he could strike again and that the streets are safe
Mary
But what d’you even, what d’you, what d’you want
Mar
I want a Kit Kat and a packet of wotsits.
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But it’s dark. It’s the middle of the night
Mar
So
DC MOODY returns DC Mood
Where’d she go
Furie
Mary is struggling to breathe.
Mary
Home
DC Mood
I don’t think that’s a good idea, do you
MARY 2 shakes her head Furie
Mary is experiencing a tingling in her ngers.
DC mood
I like the name Mary. It’s so…it’s just simple, isn’t it? “Mary”. Uncomplicated. My mum was a Mary. Very anxious woman, my mother. She’d stand there ironing, making the tea, whatever, and you’d try and talk to her but you couldn’t, she’d be in her head with her worries, a million miles away. It was like she was in another country – my Dad would say, don’t bother son, she’s away to Maryland again. D’you want to get in the car for me
Furie
DC Moody takes off his Police Hat. There is a scar on his forehead in the shape of a Y. ,
Furie
Mary thinks she is screaming right now.
DC Mood
I’m really sorry about this
We hear the [UNBEARABLE SOUND]. The briefest of black outs. MARY 2 joins the FURIES Furie
and one in forty women have been [UNBEARABLE SOUND and by [UNBEARABLE SOUND] we do not mea a fumbled ir a misguided chat u an unwanted hu
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being watched while we eat an ice crea a builder using us to demonstrate his heterosexuality to his workmate all that snow ake shi we mea The [UNBEARABLE SOUND] plays for 10 times its normal length The following lines in italics are for the women of colour in the cast And that’s just the stuff we’re telling you about. That’s just the stuff you actually wrote down Because if your bruises don’t show like a Caucasian you are not believed like a Caucasian and anyway we are more frightened of what you will do to our men than what our men will do to us so we jus The FURIES all mime zipping their mouths shut
The FURIES all mime unzipping their mouths again and meanwhile every three days a woman is [UNBEARABLE SOUND] by a ma and every three days a woman is [UNBEARABLE SOUND] by a ma and every three days a man [UNBEARABLE SOUND] a woman and his name is Saucy Jack his name is the Ripper his name is Robert his name is Wayne his name is Fred his name is Levi his name is John his name is Colin his name is Jeff from Accounts his name is actually not the point because actually yes obviously there are some really mentally unwell individuals out there who enjoy kidnapping and driving round Dover naked from the waist down but that can’t be it, can it that can’t be the whole story, can it
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cos what we can’t work ou what we can’t get our pretty little heads around i why are we so fuckin killable what is it that makes us so ver killable because it’s not just bodies is it it’s not just that sometimes (only sometimes mind! we ar smalle slowe weake softe is it? It surely can’t just be tha can it cos we’r civilize aren’t we we’ve go trains an planes an Toyota Priuses an literacy an
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sewers an the equality act an skinny cappuccinos an bone marrow donation an the internet an sports bras an staycations an prams that cost one thousand pounds an really great hamburgers in provincial towns an stay at home dads and the concept of duvet days an Sir Trevor Macdonald so we’ve come a long wa haven’t we from eating raw meat and bonking each other on the head and dragging our brides by the hair, we aren’t cave people any more for god’s sakes s please tell u please tell us please tell us how it is possible that we can get a billionaire to space and back in safety but a twenty eight year old woman cannot walk ve minutes from her house to a pub without being [UNBEARABLE SOUND] How is this possible How is this possible HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE
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I mean unless, for example, you somehow built a whole culture that made billionaires the crucible of your wildest dreams and greatest esteem, and women the dumping ground of your rage and contempt But what kind of backwards, self loathing morons would do a thing like that Pause OOPS And maybe we’re over-thinking thi Cos of course Not All Men and also Not Just Women because men get hurt to (by other men men get killed to (by other men which by the way, kind of suggests the wrong people are overthinking this doesn’t it But still we put up and shut up and hold our keys in our hands and our hope in our throat that one day Not All Men will become Not Some Men or even Not Many Men At All actually But we have been waitin For centuries we have been waitin Doing all the right things Being safe rather than sorr But we aren’t safe. And we are sorry We are angry, unhappy, exhausted wome And we would like to kno What it will tak
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What fresh hell do you need Before you are as angry as we are End
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Maryland by Lucy Kirkwoo All rights reserve © Lucy Kirkwood 202 C/o Casarotto Ramsay & Associate 3rd Floor, 7 Savoy C Strand, London WC2R 0E
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