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In a faded boarding house, Billy Rice attempts to get some peace while the sounds of domestic violence are heard in another room. He has not long sat down, when his granddaughter, Jean, knocks on the door. She lives in London and has not visited in a while. Billy welcomes her, still moaning about the noise and chaos in the house. He updates her on the whereabouts of the rest of the family and tries to get an insight into her life in London. Billy is a proud man and wants to make sure his
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START: BILLY: Who is it?
(The girl knocks again.)
Who is it? Can't get any peace in this damned house.
GIRL: Is that you, Grandad?
BILLY: What?
GIRL: It's Jean.
[... …]
END: BILLY: He was a smart little boy himself. Used to dress them in sailor suits then. He was a pretty little boy. Funny how they all turn out.
(Pause, then softly, sincerely.)
I feel sorry for you people. You don't know what it's really like. You haven't lived, most of you. You've never known what it was like, you're all miserable really. You don't know what life can be like.
Osborne, John. Plays Two: the Entertainer, the Hotel in Amsterdam, West Of Suez and Time Present. London: Faber & Faber, 1998. pp.10-18.
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