Escape From A Better Place

 Escape was written on a theatre Board Fellowship, was workshopped by Playworks and had four productions in the late 80's : Interact Theatre Canberra, Melbourne Universal Theatre, Albury, Newcastle Playhouse  and was adapted for ABC Radio Drama in 2000.

 AN EXCERPT

Sunday morning - two characters, George (career woman) and Georgy (house husband) have locked the kids (they don't remember how many they have) out of their bedroom until 11 am so they can have 'special mummy and daddy'. Exhausted from the week G&G fall in and out of sleep and conversation in a bid to 'connect'. At the same time each is trying to escape while the other sleeps.
They have disconnected conversations like

GEORGE - Put your sock on
GEORGY - Huh
GEORGE - Put your sock on
GEORGY - Huh
GEORGE - Put your sock on!

and

GEORGY - do you want peanut butter or vegemite?
GEORGE - huh
GEORGY - do you want peanut butter or vegemite?
GEORGE  - huh
GOERGY - do you want peanut butter or vegemite!!!

and

GEORGE - I love you
GEORGY - Uh Huh
GEORGE - No, what I mean is I really love you.
GEORGY - Uh huh
GEORGE - I love you in a way you probably wouldnt understand
GEORGY - Uh huh
GEORGE - I should hate you I know you so well. But I don’t. I love you.
GEORGY - Uh huh
GEORGE - I love all the things I hate about you. God, I’d hate you to love all the things you hate about me, but then you probably do don’t you?
GEORGY -Uh huh
GEORGE - So you’re not leaving?  You’ll stay?
GEORGY - Uh huh

(c) Jan Cornall 1987