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Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)
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  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
A remote cabin, present day
Act/Scene
Act 1

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START: The Woman: Here. (Calls.) Quick! Come here. Don’t miss this. Quickly.

Enter THE MAN, carrying assorted fly-fishing equipment.

THE MAN (to himself). Torch. Reel. Spare reel. Leader. Fly-box. Flies…

THE WOMAN. Quickly. You must see this.

THE MAN. Forceps. Scotch. Baccy. Gink. Priest. Where’s my priest?

THE WOMAN. You are missing the most incredible thing.

[... …]

END: THE WOMAN. You tried to teach me to cast all day on the beach. All I did was make knots. I couldn’t do it in broad / daylight.

THE MAN. It’s easy. You / just feel it.

THE WOMAN. How am I going to do it in the pitch bloody dark.

THE MAN (interrupting). There are monsters out there. Huge monsters. In the water. Right now!

THE WOMAN. You’re really selling this.

Jez Butterworth, The River, NHB Modern Plays, electronic edition, 2012, pp.8-12.

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