Auditions 4 – Nick and Lorraine
LORRAINE
Look at this place.
NICK
Not so loud, they’ll hear you.
LORRAINE
God I never thought...PAUSES
NICK
Never thought what?
LORRAINE
Nothing.
NICK
Come on, what?
LORRAINE
That we’d be like this. Skulking around in shitty backstreet pubs.
NICK
It’s not that bad. Beer’s good.
LORRAINE
Jesus!
NICK
Sorry. But anyway, what choice do we have?
LORRAINE
It’s not what I signed up for.
NICK
Me neither.
LORRAINE
I want to be seen with you.
NICK
I know...
LORRAINE
Walking in the park...
NICK
I know...
LORRAINE
Going shopping...
NICK
Yeah...
LORRAINE
Shagging in my bed, or yours....
NICK
You want to be seen with me, shagging in your....
LORRAINE
No!!! You know what I mean. Not in the back of your car.
NICK
It’s hard, I know.
LORRAINE
Damn right it is. Bloody little Ford Anglia! God!
NICK
I mean I know it’s hard for you. It’s a lot for us both to go through. But it won’t be for ever.
LORRAINE
It will be till we tell them both.
NICK
It’s not time yet.
LORRAINE
So you say. You’re not the one being hit once or twice a week.
NICK
You know the night we met?
LORRAINE
Met? You mean when me and Mary came to see you and Ronnie wrestling?
NICK
And Ronnie threw me out of the ring into Mary’s lap?
LORRAINE
(Laughs)...Yeah.
NICK
Then I got back in, and threw Ronnie straight out of the ring, right onto you, sitting next to
her?
LORRAINE
Romantic.
NICK
I never could throw the bastard straight. I meant him to land on Mary. I meant him for her.
Instead he got you. I wanted you, at the beginning. Always did. So I can put up with this,
till it’s time.
LORRAINE
...maybe...
NICK
I can get a bigger car.
LORRAINE
Ford Zodiac at least.
NICK
Done.