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

     I’m just trying to show you. Because, I don’t think that you have ever actually been loved and if the world has offered us no practical . . .
    Gary      What are you?
    Mark      I can take care of you.
    Gary      You’re nobody. You’re not what I want.
    Mark      If you can just get out of this trap.
    Gary      I don’t want you. Understand? You’re nothing.
    Mark      Wait. I just need to get this.
    Mark
takes coke from
Gary ’
s pocket and retreats
.
    Lulu      Do you understand what we’re going to do to you?
    Gary      Yes.
    Lulu      You understand and do you want us to do this?
    Gary      Yes.
    Lulu
puts the blindfold on
Gary .
    Robbie      Blindfold you and –
    Gary      Take me up the stairs.
    Robbie      In my house?
    Gary      In your house.
    Lulu
and
Robbie
spin
Gary
around
.
    Robbie      And you feel . . . you know this house. Know you’ve been here before.
    Gary      Yeah. When have I been here before?
    Lulu      And now. Now a bare room.
    So – you’re the new slave?
    Robbie      Yes. Yes, old woman. This is the new slave.
    Lulu      Beware. Beware. Do you now what the last slave died of?
    Gary      No. There’s no woman.
    Robbie      Now.
    Lulu      Sssssh. He’s coming. The master is coming. Sssssshhh.
    Gary      I know this house. I know who he is.
    Robbie      Knob. Knob on the door turning.
    Silence
. Gary
stands very still
. Robbie
slowly approaches him from behind. Long pause –
Robbie
inches away from
Gary .
    Gary      Go on.
    Robbie      Yes?
    Gary      Do it.
    Robbie      It’s what you want.
    Gary      Yes.
    Robbie
starts to undo
Gary
’s trousers
.
    Robbie      Yes?
    Gary      Yes.
    Robbie
pulls down
Gary
’s trousers
.
    He spits on his hand. Slowly he works the spit up
Gary
’s arse
.
    Robbie      Now?
    Gary      Do it now.
    Robbie      Now.
    Robbie
unzips his fly. Works spit on to his penis. He penetrates
Gary .
He starts to fuck him
.
    Silence
. Robbie
continues to fuck
Gary .
    Lulu      Is that good? Do you like that?
    More silent fucking
.
    Robbie (
to
Mark )     Do you want him?
    Mark      I . . .
    Robbie      Do you know what he is? Trash. Trash and I hate him. Want him, you can have him.
    Mark      Yes.
    Robbie
pulls away
. Mark
goes through the same routine – spitting and penetrating
Gary .
He fucks him viciously
.
    Mark      Fuck you. Fuck you.
    Lulu      Does it hurt? Is it hurting you?
    Gary      Are you him? Are you my dad?
    Mark      No.
    Gary      Yes. You’re my dad.
    Mark      I told you – no.
    He hits
Gary .
    Then, he pulls away from
Gary .
    Gary      See. See. I know who you are. So finish it.
    Mark      No.
    He hits
Gary
repeatedly
.
    I’m. Not. Your. Dad.
    Lulu      Leave him. Leave him now. Finished. It’s over.
    Gary      No. Don’t stop now.
    Robbie      No?
    Robbie
gets into position to continue fucking
Gary .
    Gary      Because – look – this bit. It doesn’t end like this. He’s always got something. He gets me in the room, blindfolds me. But he doesn’t fuck me. Well not him, not his dick. It’s the knife. He fucks me – yeah – but with a knife.
    So . . .
    Pause
.
    Lulu      No.
    Mark      Gotta have something.
    Gary      In the kitchen. Or, or a screwdriver. Or something.
    Lulu      No.
    Gary      Got to be fucking something. That’s how it ends.
    Robbie
pulls off
Gary
’s blindfold
.
    Robbie      No. I can’t do that.
    Gary      You’re not gonna finish like this?
    Robbie      I’m not gonna do that.
    Lulu      You’ll bleed.
    Gary      Yeah.
    Lulu      You could die.
    Gary      No. I’ll be OK. Promise.
    Robbie      It’ll kill you.
    Gary      It’s what I want.
    Lulu