1950 Hal: It’s not dissatisfaction. It’s a feeling more akin to having been born in captivity. A sinking realization that you’re dreams are just too big, too rich for this domestic world. Cutler (Andrew Gower): Okay, are you planning to say anything I can use as your defense? Hal: A defense for what? Cutler: What […]
Hal: I was hoping you might be able to help me. Leo’s role in my rehabilitation was essential, and with him gone I have no one to set the tasks I need to keep me safe. So I was wondering if… perhaps… you could pick up where he left off. Tom: You want me to, […]
Tom: Annie’s made a rota. Hal: I already have a rota. Tom: Seven am I feed the baby. Eight am you walk the baby. There’s a task for every hour and it’s color-coded. Hal: With little pictures of nappies and bottles. And glitter. She’s planned every moment of every minute of every day of our […]
Southend-on-Sea Leo (Louis Mahoney): I love this song. I met him once, you know. Satchmo. Stage door. The new opera house. 1950. At least I think it was him. I was so drunk it could have been Shirley Bassey. Radio Voice (Gina Bramhill): Leo. Leo, can you hear me? Don’t be afraid. I bring news […]
London 2037 Voice over the radio: Ladies and gentlemen of the resistance, good evening. Oh you’d have been so proud of your comrades. They put up quite a fight. But we slit their throats and stamped on their bones all the same. New York has fallen. The resistance have been crushed. The earth belongs to […]