A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER (marie Jones DubbelJoint Productions) PART 0NE

november let's take this opportunity to point out the fire exit there's one at the back there on the left-hand side door you came in and this door here to the right of the stage if you could refrain from smoking and photography during the performance and there is an interval and the bar will reopen at the interval thank you very much so that day started out like every other day started check underneath the car for explosive devices oh you have to keep the staff ahead of these bastards they keep advancing their technology go on in the days of the good old-fashioned learn that their mother's need tripwire wire to your ignition no nowadays they can blow you up with a device no bigger than a box of watches well they'll not get me then our cheek comes i could see her feet coming at me from where i'm lying underneath the car approaching like two great black paint rottweilers watson does it come to rest in my eyeliner and i clear up the glare back i stare up i take them all i look them right in the eye and a weep from you say camel who would want to blow you up i am a government employee you're only a duel clerk kenneth and if we're dear to catch yourself all only a duel clerk only a glorified charity worker a pen pusher not even a real dog a bloody poodle or one of those skippery mongols that only shits in a leather tray not even a real dog i'm not even important enough to be on somebody's headless bastards have you taken your seatbelts off daddy can i go with you and grandma ernie through the football match no can i go there now no if he's not taking me it's not taking you it's not right daddy no well then you are kidding me what no but they said you weren't kicking him because you were taking me and i think you're taking me you're not going i don't want to go i have to go i have to take around under 60 cigarettes a day earn it because kiranda polluted lungs can't go on his own and mommy and her wisdom has decided that daddy has to take grounded nicotine because he can't get off the steps on his own because he's inflicted an early death on himself so thank you very much mommy you don't like my father do you no ah good morning box d and how are you this morning dead on camera and what happened today boxty fresh claims cat i love fresh creams love it love it next fill that in sound at the bottom we're there sorry where look do you see where i put that x that huge black enormous x that great big hulk of an x which i put there to make sure you sign in the right place there patrick mcardle dependents sex children oh [ __ ] sick my ass would be six children why they would have been seven only should lost one look at me oh dear available for work from today yes yes yeah right you'll be about the family income supplement no doubt i'll give you an appointment for tomorrow am sure i'm here now so well could i not see those people now what so am i so here no but i have to come back tomorrow i'm over here in the morning i have to go to dublin ah not available for work as out of the country i'm only going to dublin for the morning you're out of the company but i'm going down on the 8 o'clock and i'm coming back up on the 11 o'clock you see i'm just leaving the island down she's been down to stay with your sister and she's making her up the station you're out of the country but i'm not even getting off the train i'm just helping her onto the platform look the train is in a foreign conflict so therefore technically speaking you are not available for work as you're out of the country stand on a platform a foreign country platform well look i'm available for work can i get the neuron and i'll be about nine o'clock and on the way back i hit yuri about twelve sweaters only three hours and if i was to take a lunch break and two key breaks between toilet breaks and add them together and do half an hour's over time and i would be available to go to a foreign country i'm back i'll do it here so what's the problem sunshine you want an appointment for today do you sir well that should be no problem at all if you would just like to wait over there i shall call you at the first available appointment you don't mind waiting do you sir oh good well it's just over there yes that's it well i can watch you waiting with you clever bastard sort of that one i did in my backstage but that carol he was trying to make a mug out of me divorced well we know how to store like those sorts of feckless highlightings don't the bucks do well there you can but my reckoning there won't be another appointment until at least tomorrow but i'm going to enjoy you i think mr smart ass yes audrey i will have a cup of tea and two jammy dodgers please he always has custard creams oh so he just decided to have one of the last two remaining jelly dodgers because he knows i like them that's why when you tell i remember that already you'd tell 10 of norman mcallister will remember that next hello now i told you never to call me at work johnny doesn't like it what what does it say i was honest i'm pretty excited i can't believe it maybe they've accepted me but they're all doctors and bank managers and god knows what down there oh it's an honor all right what do you mean don't let you down what do you think i'm going to do deborah look we are all the same on the golf course love you and that is because of that second interview i told them philip morgan comes to our house for dinner you're looking off the phone i can't wait to see jerry duffy's face two years he's been trying to get in right it's because he's a catholic so the club will admit that but do you know what and i know he knows it just nobody can prove it yeah get off the phone i want to go to this office and tell him right now hey there's the lafayette he's the supervisor and he can't get accepted brilliant jerry um i double those fives like you've asked i've left them with margaret oh well by the way jerry do you fancy game of golf on sunday sunday is a tough day you get under the course if you're not a member cannon for years i feel it for this moment but i was not casual i don't want him to be in fear take it all in your strength he will actually jerry that shouldn't be your problem you see i've just been accepted as a member and as a member you will be permitted as long as you're with me so i'll call you later to arrange your time i had to get out of here i couldn't bear to look back at the envy on his face the years of gluten with that i got the job over a protestant look wiped off his face because you've never worn a bus jerry at the end of the day when the chips are dying when harley comes to hearty and even when the fat lady sings we will always stick you our own me a member of the golf club and him my boss having the kite tired of me to get onto the course things are looking up for calif norman mcallister member of the club will you wind your window down please ernie it's not i know it's november early but you also know november or not i don't allow smoking in the car but seeing as you cannot go five minutes without a cancer stick earn it you'll have to contend with the november winds so you have a choice you can freeze and smoke or be warm and stick a patch all i hope you appreciate this early you know i don't like football don't like football you're not a man at all you know what i worry about you sometimes don't do it do you but do you also know ernie that your daughter is married to a man who has just been accepted as a member of the golf club tell that to your cronies in the buffs club golf that's a nice doll's game i wouldn't impress the boys down at the box i tell you what would i press a mortar come you down with me and buy them a drink that's not to let you over the door but still help him forgive me for letting my daughter marry a dole clark i must call that trailer you didn't think it would have been better should mine opinion could have been more exceptional the way children dies their men shouldn't have to beg for money abuse plans themselves out doing it theirs work trying to feed their children if they're doing a dance work from earning they shouldn't be doing it they don't that's the problem my way back to your own cup right why don't you show ernie i got car just passed us in front there and has a free state range on it hope lovers coming up here so what are they probably up to much support their team support support our short hop-baked fenian lovers but see though they was real irish just as the half of them's english that wasn't good enough to play for england oh and then i found some old irish poor woman that was supposed to be their drive i've never set foot in ireland before is i wouldn't know a shalili from a hole in them all and ever christ didn't think they had started that the 1916 nation are rising so be all right early if they were here to support real irish work no it would golf club we can all go for a wee drink on the sundays we take the kids i are mars well chuffed she has the free man's club boot going already looking for a frack no they're all managers and what hobbies she says hey listen i have a nice tele-doctor if i'm sick i'm a similarly event manager if i'm looking alone but do you see what we are all drinking together and i must do them on as anyone carry some drink as i create a lava e 16 and 17 are you hear someone come on that's probably the only excuse me yeah i will show them dirty minion irish bastards yeah i no surrender what's going on here ernie this is football mature crowd of lions waiting for the christians i don't have blood in her nostrils carry some fenian blood what's worse than that foreign and what's even more despicable than that it's mercenary foreign okay scum oh [ __ ] if it's great to be british when you hear that can we sum it and look at our lords oh stone the attention and knock that out this is our company and amazon mayans oh i want to point out that that is the english national anthem that has just been played and they see those of them who are not english they happen to live there in any way and i'm sure it doesn't disturb them one way or another and all they want to do is play a game of football well that was a red flag to accuse if ever there was oh does it not let me tell you something let me tell you something they may look like innocent football players do you see as far as i'm concerned they are representing the ira irish republican army understand republic of ireland it's the same thing and if they are prepared to sully themselves by praying under the banner of a because to me they represent the man that shoots our fears and kills our soldiers and as far as the protestant people often is concerned there was all singing skunk dirty feminine scum there's only one came in ireland come on let's take the ball example faster then take a police officer our traits track our traits trick our trait draco do you hear that do you hear that she says our voice grace thinks grace thinks that they're all doing tonight i started that i started that nine thousands of restaurant day that was me ernie thompson is i see him that i was married to somebody who came from them a she understanding of a place with men just like him it's beyond words let's be men walk into a bar at halloween shout trick or treat and then modain seven innocent people and these these [ __ ] barbarians are loved i sure think i should be the christ these are the people and then i started ernie ernie you are new life for its lost you are the finest human being and has ever been my misfortune then no i wish you were dead and i could be the first maggot to eat your festive dream the first worm the boar in your stinking heart the first dog to shake on your grave and the last person to see you alive because then already then i could say all of this to you but i look around me and i see hundreds of other ernies and then i noticed some man looking at me not chanting her chin i got scared and i started to open and close my mouth like i was saying what they were saying got a clock of mine beside me i know he's an irish supporter because he has his handbag hoping that no one will lose i'm not chanting her cheering and i wanted to say to her me being nice to a catholic for no good reason i wanted to say to him look at me yet i'm just opening and closing my mouth just do what i do and then you'll be all right but ernie was getting more and more obscene i wanted to grab that i wanted to run a little place of a house over his ears and then a goal for northern ireland and the place erupts and the one beside me he stands up and claps desperate enough we're gonna draw look at that big bastard he was born here they look at him playing for the villain turtle twitter london and then the crowd in front starts singing the sash and ernie he joins in with graham gustavu ah not the words and the tunes seemed so despicable let us start my father and then a goal for the republic and there's a deathly silence that even the players aren't sure that they've scored because nobody's cheering and the irish supporters stand and says open the christ that they've got those signs of pleasure on their feet and the billy boys are silenced just for a moment as their cold eyes scar the grounds looking for the one irish supporter who can't control his feelings and the man beside me he can't clap or cheer he just looks blank open to god he has no signs of joy he just stares ahead i look at him and he looks away i'm not you and under the corner of my mouth i said to him well done this great rush of adrenaline the man he didn't respond he probably thought it's a trick they want me to give myself away and why should he trust me and the company of bernie dead greens here delirious with hate and then the sucks my father war starts up again just to show that that voice won't be silenced for law and i see the man in front looking at the man beside me and i hear him trying to see it i hear him fighting desperately for the words and i see it i sing it in his ear not the prophet but to help he understands what i'm trying to do for him but he trusts me and he smiles at me pounding his eardrum and we boost my at the madness of it all and in our own small victory i drove home that night with the dreaded ernie come on sleep i want to stop a car and throw them out but then i know i sat there because i hadn't the bottle to challenge too many years of accepting what ernie accepted so i sat there in silence no one in my gossip ernie had to be wrong where did i leave kenneth norman mcallister regularly there you go and as he took another gulp of air i prayed to god it would be his last no such luck you know what can i say i don't care if the opinions are getting america sure they'll get bit anyway i never go back but you see as far as i'm concerned tonight we shoot them what do you say what do you say to a man like ernie 65 years of good old loyal bigotry 65 years of salt of the earth racism 65 years of being at the bottom of the heap i mean look at them they can hardly walk they can hardly breathe 50 years of smoking himself to death but tonight ernie is a happy man because tonight earning of the chance that he has been waiting for for all of those years tonight ernie expressed himself christ now the rest of us said i turned on the car video i heard a player being interviewed after the match an english man born in england of an irish mother telling the commentators he stood in windsor park in belfast that he was happy for all his fans back in ireland back in ireland now this player who was born in england playing football for the republic in belfast but while he was doing that he was called a dirty finnian marriage bastard and they go back to his own country but on the other hand a player who was born in belfast playing football for northern ireland he was also called a dirty finian irish bastard because he was accused of playing the lose because he was a thing in the first bit she's waving up here doing now should never wave something under the window she has been watching because tonight she's proud of me tonight i am not just a dole clerk tonight i am a member of the golf club and now she can up her status at aerobics valley and kind say congratulations lisa and malcolm want to buy a drink and pauline and stewart pretended to be dead chuffed but i knew as soon as i told him that pauline was dead jealous because it was a few seconds silence before she said oh deborah i'm delighted for you she was just the same when i told her that philip morgan was coming to our house for dinner car deborah i have never witnessed such a despicable display here as i have tonight i can imagine but we didn't tell you volley's going to get her mommy didn't get your sweater you knew the ones with the weak golfers wrong and she only does it for one other members of clubs which is this thing but only doing it for once that are actually proper members that were they were shouting trick or treat daddy is a member of the golf club now and it's going to mean a lot of money and it's a big never i'm talking about your father your father was wrong like a man possessed but hatred and racism thank you don't mind my daddy you know what he's like a football matches oh here what did jerry say i bet he was delivered you got your own bag didn't you here come on up a glass of wine i think i've got a bottle left over from last christmas and then i cracked dabra will you listen to me you stupid happy haired [ __ ] but i don't want jerry to be loving do you know that i don't want jerry to feel like [ __ ] i don't want to hold his wife and kids thinking that i'm out to get him for no other good reason because he's a catholic he's not pathetic that you don't want your husband to be pathetic to you do you want your husband to be a man and stand by his beliefs like you're a disgusting father you care about it's me wearing a handmade sweater what's a knitted golfer hitting it in a golf ball with another [ __ ] golf club but i didn't because there are thousands of dabbers married to thousands of kenneth and i hardened the balls to be the kenneth that took on the debra i could blame her i couldn't blame her when i didn't even know what i believed myself you know i knew something was happening to me but how could i stand there and look back at my whole life in one night so instead i had a glass of wine with my wife and i tried to forget that awful night a new wrapper morning box day what quite unusual next oh you again what happened to you then train striker no you made me weird over there for four hours yesterday you won food well i'd have to come back here again the day i'm sure you sleep easy in your bed with the satisfaction of making people like me feel like [ __ ] well here i want to tell you something i have six kids six kids and did you see if i thought for one minute that one of them was gonna grow up and treat another human being the way you treated me yesterday i would break their two legs to make sure that they never worked and would you just get all this people because the longer i have to sit here looking at you looking at me like i'm some sort of scum the more i want to put my fist down the earth i looked at him i looked into his eyes and i had to get up and walk away because i saw years of having to accept people like me treating him like dirt years of having to put up with my pathetic bigotry years of knowing that because he was a catholic um out of work catholic that he had to accept being treated like he was nothing no worth i looked into his eyes and i had to get up and walk away because he was right excuse me uh i've got somebody else to take over sorry stayed in the middle student i looked at myself i looked at myself sitting there for 15 years 16 years i've never looked into the eyes of anybody thousands of faceless people with no eyes many years of resentment bitterness pettiness humiliation just to make me kenneth mcallister somebody my head was spinning i wanted to scream i wanted to jump up in the counter with a thousand gyros in my hand and just throw them at people and say here go on take it take the money go and spend it whatever you like drink horses bingo it doesn't matter just go on a good time on me like i was standing there for hours just fantasizing man just fantasizing about what i would do if it wasn't a stupid little man stupid soulless little if it was even possible to change but it wasn't is it audrey i don't care if he had the last johnny dodge of the day again you know i don't care if he turns out that bloody johnny dodger just give me everything you have but i don't want peter there i want coffee black coffee all right you're right jerry i shouldn't have snapped the daughter like that i will go and apologize i didn't know you liked football camera what why don't you say terry i said i saw you at the match last night but you were too far away to attract your intention and then know you liked football he looked into my eyes i felt like he'd watched me commit a terrible crime i'm sorry i'm sorry that wasn't me i guess i was there but i was scared too i mean that's why you saw me open and close my mouth but i swear to jerry sort of got i said nothing i mean they don't speak for me you know that oh but they do speak for you canna like about a kill think about the golf club and you throwing it in jerry's face think about the resentment and the bitterness you felt when jerry got the job and he's not a broadcast oh they do speak for you because you're one of them you've always been one of them i don't think that you can hide away in your nice sweet sammy and close your eyes and ears too don't think because now you're a member of a golf club you can hide behind a haunted sweater because you're one of them and you can't escape kevin so come on tell jerry tell him then what was that oh well cannot be expected we were prepared for that were you scared johnny i mean they could not perform properly okay terrible penny i drove home with jerry's words pounding in my brain penny he plugged me he had these many people who the [ __ ] does he think he is heaven was dragged up in some fenian gutter somewhere he pennies back i moved back to windsor park i saw myself back there a student in the middle of the pitch and i shouted at the hordes will you shut up they're not afraid to you they pity you they're not gonna do so either shut up you're a joke shut the [ __ ] up trick or treat trick or treat twice our train will you shut up don't let them believe just shut up look at this it says congratulations on your success and inside the card that says to kenneth well done from pauline and stewart she's even drawn a weak golfer on it but did that really golder still i looked at her i looked at my wife and i said to myself i don't love you you have become a habit just like my jammy dodgers and my own special mom however we just exist together are you right in the head kevin yeah i know i will kick you from me is there something wrong what is it no no no from me you and me have you lost your senses a it's a thursday night a b we cannot afford it and see you know i'm on a diet so when we're dear sing catch yourself oh i hear it when she does that i hear it when she does her abc's nothing is just yes or no we're reading maybe it's almost a an ap an abc if it's just a or even a b it's all this is true for once when you do something that shocks me just for once would you not answer me with abc will you forgive keep your voice down please the children debra look at me look at your loyal boring husband and tell me do you love me there is something wrong isn't it have you been drinking no doubt i've been thinking for the past 10 years we haven't anything that is worth a damn to anybody and all you think about union and all i think about me and what we really care about is what other people think about us and those young people well they don't get too damns what we do or think because they're just like us thinking only about themselves so what is the point there but what is that fine and if you say abrc i will scream but she didn't she said nothing she just stood there with desperate confusion in her eyes i've lost my husband that's a look at per girl hot on her face my husband is dead and he's standing there looking at me i wanted to hug her with the tears in her eyes and i saw the weak girl with the dolls in her palm dreaming of the white dress the two kids the nice semi and the good loyal husband until death awesome part it didn't matter that she didn't love me really isabel doesn't like ernie and ernie does they exist together why should i destroy all that for her she walked away from me walked up the hall she picked up the youngest and she held him to her and the eldest what he held her hand why are you crying my way she said nothing she just stood there quietly and the eldest one he looked at me for this big facade accusing ace let me talk to your mama did you mean all of that kenneth no no no no i'm just pissed off for work at the moment i'll take it out on you are you sure tim yeah yes and she smiled not believing me but knowing for the sake of her home life her whole existence that she must make herself believe me that she will make herself believe me with the same will and determination that she does are step ups and aerobics the same rigor that you could send the clean in this house the same dedication she has for making sure that her kids are going to pass the 11 plus the same willpower she has for self-sacrifice to better herself because it's all part of the zeal thing it's all part of the same thing see we are the perfect prods we common kids for standard recognition made from the water design we're like those fitted kitchens you can get you know with exact spaces for standard cookers and fridges our dimensions never bear and that's the way we like it but what happens when the kids get put together and the appliances don't fit the spaces it's okay maybe we can't cope we can't cope i knew then that i had to stop i had to stop before i destroyed my wife and i put up a little life oh oh to look back now i could only spell total disaster so that night kenneth mcallister vowed that he would never look back again i had to train myself not to think not to see just keep your head down and get on with it i didn't want to watch the news i didn't want to think about who i was where i came from what i was supposed to think i didn't want to listen to the men that i had voted for saying nothing only we won't change we won't budge we won't give him i tried to pretend that i was living in some insignificant little town in the middle of england which was bearable until one night as i headed from a car after work do you having trouble with your car there jared i have a troublemaker i think i'm going to order a taxi cab oh no jerry i'll give you a left one what was this saying jerry lived on the other side of the town bonded covered i've never been up there before in my life had no desire to go there yet i was curious i wanted to know beyond that man i wanted to know where he lived what his house looked like what his wife looked like what he had for his teeth what he thought about things i could never imagine for some tough reason i wanted to know i could hear the other camera in my head saying don't do it don't do it remember what you promised yourself for the sake of your wife and your kids and your putable little life don't do it that'll be all right jerry you see she goes to your rubrics i drove up the falls road never been on a falls road the sun was shining and the road was having women and kids black cabs and army tanks normally and i felt like a stranger not sure the territory thinking that they were all looking at me knowing that i was the anime but nobody