nut (NHB Modern Plays)

By debbie tucker green

Elayne doesn't want company but company won't leave her alone. Everyone's got an opinion but no one's listening and things are starting to slip.
nut premiered at The Shed at the National Theatre in October 2013, directed by the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Nov 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780012964

debbie tucker green

debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Her plays include: a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011); random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003). She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film. Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gone, random, handprint and freefall. She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

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debbie tucker green

nut

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Original Production

Characters and Note on Text

nut

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

nut was first performed in The Shed at the National Theatre, London, on 30 October 2013, with the following cast:

Characters

ELAYNE, Black female

AIMEE, White female

DEVON, Black male

TREY, Black boy

EX-WIFE, Black, younger sister of Elayne

EX-HUSBAND, Tyrone, Black

DAUGHTER, Maya, approximately eleven years old (heard from offstage only)

Time: Now.

A forward slash (/) marks where dialogue starts to overlap.

Names appearing without dialogue indicate an active silence between those characters.

Words in (brackets) are intention only and not to be spoken.

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

ACT ONE

Scene One