Ballyturk (NHB Modern Plays)

1.…and dawn shining now. (Slight pause.) It warms the air around him and pushes back all that was yesterday. (Pause.) And in his mouth he tastes the drink from last night, beneath his nails the dirt from Marnie’s garden, in his jacket the smells of her new perfume, the dust of glass from her window. His eyes close and the noises he carries are churned into one another and pounding out now into the dawn. They crash over their hills and through the woods and down into the stream that runs through Ballyturk.
A breath in the darkness – 1 barely flinches.
Marnie Reynolds would be waking up to her burnt kitchen – she’d smell the smoke from beneath her new perfume and hear the embers and she’d know that it was him. In the dawn he is barely the man he was yesterday. Poisonous his envy. Inescapable his crime. And the air is whispering still – (Slight pause.) ‘Larry Aspen has a knife. He will never see the full morning.’