The Ching Room & Turbo Folk: Two Plays
By Alan Bissett
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The Ching Room
A pitch-black two-hander set in a toilet cubicle. Rory realises he is out of his depth once he becomes trapped by the terrifying and enigmatic drug-dealer, Darren.
Cast size: 2M.
Turbo Folk
A sharp look at Scottish natio
Alan Bissett
Alan Bissett is a novelist, playwright and performer from Falkirk, in Scotland, who now lives in Renfrewshire. He is most well-known for his novels Boyracers and Death of a Ladies' Man, as well as his "one-woman show" The Moira Monologues.
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The Ching Room & Turbo Folk - Alan Bissett
The Ching Room
First performed as part of the A Play, a Pie and a Pint series
Òran Mór, Glasgow, March 2009
Directed by Cheryl Martin
DARREN Andy Clark
RORY Colin McCredie
Sir?
Oh! Sorry, I didn’t think anyone was in here.
Quite alright, sir, easy to mistake to make.
In you come.
Okay, thanks.
Uh…
Sir?
Well, I can’t get in until you come out.
I see, sir.
Were you about to go?
No, sir, no. I’ve gone.
Okay then.
I’m well gone.
In which case could you maybe…uh…leave me to it?
No can do, sir, no can do.
Why not?
Because there’s room for us both in here, sir.
Room for us both…?
Look, this is the only cubicle, and it’s kind of an emergency, and
you’re not doing anything, so if you don’t mind….
Not doing anything? On the contrary, sir.
I am on official nightclub business in here.
I don’t understand.
Why would you need bouncers in the cubicles?
Not a bouncer, sir, not a bouncer. Neither bruiser nor gorilla, I.
My matters are more, shall we say, spiritual that that.
Well if you’re not a bouncer then what are you doing here?
Oh come now, sir, I think we both know.
No. We really don’t.
We’re both aware what you’re actually here for, sir.
I’m here to expel several pounds of faeces from my arse.
I don’t know what you’re here for.
Are you serious, sir? You don’t know where you are?
Em, a nightclub toilet?
Oh no, sir, no. Perish the thought.
On Sauchiehall Street?
Not any more, sir.
Okay then. Where am I?
Come away in, sir, come away in.
Helluva draught with this door open.
Well, uh, I really should get back to my girlfriend.
I thought you said it was an emergency?
Maybe I could nip across the road or something…
You’re quite safe, sir.
This is a frequent problem I find in contemporary society, sir: trust.
Do you trust me?
Do you trust me?
Em. Um. Sure.
Good. So come in.
Okay.
Okay…just for a second.
(click)
What are you locking the door for?
No reason to be afraid, sir, I merely stand between you and it so we will not be interrupted by scum and lowlifes. I feel certain sir shares my distaste for many of the fiends and vagabonds who walk the dancefloors of this establishment, not unlike creatures of the night in many respects. Don’t you agree, sir?
Of course. Uh.
You always have to be careful of…the wrong sort.
A crucifix and garlic one sometimes needs round here, sir!
Now. Take a good look around. Is it coming to you?
No.
Oh baffled little sir. You make my heart gay with your naïvety! You, sir, have found your way to a place many think to be a mere myth. More mysterious than Atlantis, more magical than Narnia, more dangerous than the Bermuda Triangle. This, sir?
This. Is the Ching Room.
Ching room. What’s a…what’s a ching room?
Sir. Again you wound my sensitive feelings! Not ‘a’ Ching Room, sir,