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Sheila and Brian have a 10 year-old daughter Joe, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Looking after her is hard work and they are weary and frustrated. However, Sheila is loving and refuses to give up hope, while Brian uses black humor to help him get by each day. They fall into little music hall-style acts to remember how their life has come to this. Here, they break the fourth wall to present a scene at the hospital to the audience. At this point, Joe was a small baby and
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START: SHEILA: Few weeks later they called me to collect Joe from the hospital, by which time we’d gathered that she wasn’t ever going to amount to much. But I was determined to know the best we could expect. And the worst. The pediatrician was German--or Viennese, I’m not too sure.
(For this sketch, BRI uses a music-hall German accent)
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END: BRIAN: But jawoh! You must feed her, vosh her nappies, keep her varm. Just like any ozzer mozzer.
SHEILA: But for how long?
BRIAN: Who can tell? Anysing can happen, you know zat. Diphtheria, pneumonia…vooping cough…Colorado beetle.
Peter Nichols, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. Faber and Faber, 1975. pp.35-37
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