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Robert is an academic and the estranged father of Sarah, Freya, and Jasmine. Freya’s husband has come on a secret trip to confront his father-in-law about what he said to Freya when she came to see him. Steve is hugely concerned for his wife’s state of mind and is angry that Robert chose not to comfort his anxious daughter, but instead advised her to kill their unborn child to save it from the future of humanity.
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START: ROBERT: Did you call her?
STEVE: She's just texted. She wants to meet.
ROBERT: Good, she wants to meet. Good.
STEVE: You’re right she’ll have a difficult life.
ROBERT: Freya?
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END: ROBERT: Really?
STEVE: And they smell.
ROBERT: What?
STEVE: Because they’re on their own, they smell, a bit, of piss. Don’t get up.
Mike Bartlett. Earthquakes in London. Methuen Drama, pp.110-111.
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