Conor McPherson Plays McPherson, Conor;

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.Isn’t that right Jack?JACK.That’s right, and your dad nearly climbing into the camera there.FINBAR.He was a pillar of the community, Valerie.No one had anything against him.Except headers like your man there.(Indicating JACK.)JACK.That’s right, Finbar.And I’m just going in here to do something up against the pillar of the community now.JACK goes out door at back.FINBAR.Jays, he’s a desperate fella, that one.VALERIE.Where was this taken?BRENDAN.That’s the view of Carrick from our top field up there.VALERIE.It’s an amazing view.FINBAR.Oh I’d say that’s probably one of the best views all around here, wouldn’t it be?BRENDAN.Oh yeah I’d say so.JIM.Oh yeah, it would be, yeah.FINBAR.You get all the Germans trekking up here in the summer, Valerie.Up from the campsite.VALERIE.Right.FINBAR.They do come up.This’d be the scenic part of all around here, you know? Em.There’s what’s? There was stories all, the fairies be up there in that field.Isn’t there a fort up there?BRENDAN.There’s a kind of a one.VALERIE.A fairy fort?FINBAR.The Germans do love all this.BRENDAN.Well there’s a.ring of trees, you know.FINBAR.What’s the story about the fairy road that.Who used to tell it?BRENDAN.Ah, Jack’d tell you all them stories.FINBAR.There’s all this around here, Valerie, the area’s steeped in old folklore, and that, you know.BRENDAN.Jack’d know.the what the, you’d know a few, Jim.JIM.Ah Jack’d tell you better than me.FINBAR (at photograph).That’s the abbey now.VALERIE.Oh yeah.FINBAR.You can see more of it there now.What was there, Brendan? When was that?BRENDAN.Oh, back in oh, fifteen something, there was a synod of bishops all came and met there for.like.eh.JIM.This townland used to be quite important back a few hundred years ago, Valerie.This was like the capital of the, the county, it would have been.VALERIE.Right.JACK comes back in.FINBAR.Oh it’s a very interesting place all, eh, Jack we were just saying about the, what was the story with the fairy road?JACK.The fairy road? I go into the toilet for two minutes.I can’t leave yous alone for two minutes.They laugh.FINBAR.Ah I was telling Valerie about the fort and everything.What was the story with the fairy road? Where was it?Short pause.JACK.Are you really interested? All the babies.FINBAR.Ah it’s a bit of fun.Tell her.Where was it?JACK (to FINBAR).You’re going to regret me saying this now, ’cause you know whose house it was?FINBAR.Whose?JACK.It was Maura Nealon’s house.FINBAR (self-chastising, remembering).Oh.Jesus.They laugh.JACK.You see? That’s as much cop as you have now.FINBAR.I fucking forgot it was Maura.JACK.These are only old stories, Valerie.VALERIE.No.I’d like to hear it.JACK.It’s only an old cod, like.FINBAR.You’re not going to be scaring the woman.JACK.Ah it’s not scary.VALERIE.I’m interested in it.FINBAR.You hear all old shit around here, it doesn’t mean anything.BRENDAN.This is a good little story.JACK.It’s only short.It’s just.Maura.Nealon used to come in here in the evening, sit over there at the fire.How old was she, Jim? When she died?JIM.Oh Jays, she would have been nearly ninety.JACK.But she was a grand, you know, spritely kind of a woman ’til the end.And had all her.She was on the ball, like, you know? And she swore that this happened.When she was only a girl.She lived in that house all her life.And she had older brothers and sisters.She was the youngest.And her mother, eh.JIM.Bridie.JACK.Bridie.She was a well-known woman in the area.A widow woman.She was a bit of a character.Bit of a practical joker and that, you know? And Maura would say that when she was young, she was, Bridie was, always doing things on the older kids, hiding their.clothes and all this, you know? And she’d tell them old fibs about what a certain, prospective boyfriend or girl friend had said about them out on the road and this about coming courting or that.And she was always shouting from upstairs or this ‘There’s someone at the door.’ She was always saying there’s someone at the back door or there’s someone coming up the path.You know.This.And there’d never be, anyone there.And people got used to her.That she liked her joke.And Maura used to say that one Saturday evening back in about 1910 or 1911, the older ones were getting ready to go out for a dance or whatever was happening [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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