Big Issue
OUTSIDE RANDOLPH HOTEL OXFORD
- STEVE: Big Issue! Big Issue!
- ENTER GEORGE IN A HURRY
- GEORGE: Sorry. In a hurry.
- STEVE: Enjoy your day, HE Exits … Mr Simkins.
- STEVE: Big Issue! Need to get into hostel. Big Issue!
- ENTER GEORGE AGAIN
- GEORGE: Did you just use my name?
- STEVE: I don’t know, did I?
- GEORGE: You were here last Thursday, weren’t you?
- STEVE: Was I?
- GEORGE: It’s just that I lost a credit card. I zoomed out of Tescos to catch the 14 and must have dropped it.
- STEVE: (BEAT) You taught me. Steve Maynard.
- GEORGE: Oh my God! That Maynard! You played Bottom.
- STEVE: Still playing it!
- GEORGE: But,(BEAT) I heard you were up at Stratford. You were my best student ever. Brilliantly talented. (BEAT) Wasn’t it me that suggested? …
- STEVE: I’m not blaming anyone.
- GEORGE: I’ll take three of those, Steven.
- STEVE: Sorry.I’m right out.
- GEORGE: It was so nice seeing you again.
- STEVE: Yeah… Well..
- GEORGE: (LOOKS AT WATCH) Playhouse curtain ten minutes. See you. HE LEAVES
- STEVE: (WATCHING HIM GO) Big Issue! Big Issue!
- END