TWILIGHTS OF THE GODS (SHOOT,GET/TREASURE,REPEAT)

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By Mark Ravenhill

SUSAN
Do I get breakfast?

JANE
You do.

SUSAN
I heard if I do this I'd get
breakfast.

JANE
You do, Susan, you get breakfast.

SUSAN
Do I get my breakfast now?

JANE
No, Susan, you get your breakfast at
the end. There will be medical
supervision while you eat your
breakfast.

SUSAN
I'm very hungry.

JANE
Alright.

SUSAN
We've got no food in our zone.

JANE
I see.

SUSAN
There's nothing...We - we we get no
food, it's really -

JANE
I'm sorry.

SUSAN
So I think you should put that in your
report.

JANE
If you like.
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SUSAN
Yes I do yes I do yes - you write it
down, you write it down and you put it
in your report - my zone has no food.

JANE
Thank you Susan, I will.

SUSAN
Do it now.

JANE
I'm sorry?

SUSAN
Let me see you do it. Write it down.
There is no food in our zone.

JANE
Alright alright, if that's what you
want I'll...(writes). Food supplies
unsatisfactory in -

SUSAN
No no no, there is no food. There's
nothing. There's starvation. There's -

JANE
Susan feels there's no food in Zone
Eight.

SUSAN
I know that. I don't - I know.

JANE
It's gone in.

SUSAN
You've got to let them know what's
happening in -

JANE
I've noted the food situation, okay?
The food situation has been noted.

SUSAN
Malnutrition. Starvation.
Gastro...We're being taken away. Death
in the -
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JANE
Susan, I have noted. I have noted it.
Can we move on from the food
situation?

SUSAN
If you like.

JANE
I do. How was the -

SUSAN
I don't want to beg. I don't want to
be a beggar like this. I used to be an
important person. I wasn't this
pathetic - I'm not this pathetic - But
I'm just so -

JANE
We are trying to get food to the
zones.

I'm going to push on with the report.

SUSAN
Why are we doing this?

JANE
Susan, I can still withhold your
breakfast if I find you uncooperative.

SUSAN
My little brother's seven. He's called
Dan. Before the invasion he used to
play on a bicycle with stabilizers on
the street with his friends. I've been
living in the cellar with him for the
last six months. Sometimes we enjoy
ourselves. I make up stories. He makes
up stories. The Little Devil. That's a
character we made up. The Little Devil
who -

JANE
How was -

SUSAN
No. Food first. Food. Food. Food.