scene from the theatre production Ocean Of Storms
Fragments of text from Ocean of Storms.
Sarah Al I don't care what the boys say
I want you to bring me home
I'll take my chances
No it's my choice,
I don't belong here any more.
Al, I don't want to die out here.
Amanda This is Institution Road
Sarah No, it's pretty fucked up here Al. There's a bush fire and... it looks beautiful
Amanda White flints cast in dark soil
SarahThere's a storm, and those people and...
Amanda rain drenched windows
SarahI miss you Al.
AmandaTraffic lights diffracted in water pools
Sarahand there's my little girl
Amandashe holds up an umbrella for the rain protection and a forearm obscures her face. It's her
SarahCheck
Amandashe's there in that scatter of sodium orange
SarahCheck
Amandastanding by a bus stop, she's crying
Sarah Check
AmandaDon't let them touch her
SarahRoger
AmandaCapcom do you read me?
SarahGo ahead Al
AmandaI wasn't joking Jo
SarahWhat?
AmandaI want you to bring me back
SarahNegative. Risk assessment says no go Jo, just sit tight
Amanda Under the grand circles, magnetic loops and guidance stars.
A face held up to the sky, gazing
Jagged lightning traceries of blood across the white
An earth with blurred circumference
Dark peat land ploughed for the rain of light
reflections off the face of a potassium white streak hurtling in.


The Third Bus Text

This is nearer Gravely Hill. Lamp post 46, shelter 505949D.
Flying duel carriageway style, Chevrolet parked on a drive.
Passing America. Beige taxi satellite.
Prospect vehicle sales. Cable pavement scars are fading.
Light that warns of speeding. That chimney, this junction. A glimpse of trace of parallel yellow lines.
Mother and daughter.
Three life belts on that island in the pond.
Billesley. Kids on a roundabout, one girl in a silver jacket, maybe its her.
Someone has a radio on quietly, DJ tones.
Budding trees west of town again.

917 is a night bus. James Yarker and Stan's Cafe, 1996

A full script can be found in The British Library or can be bought from Stan's Cafe £6 + p&p.