Script

SIDE 1

MATRON NURSE

(entering)

James Henry Trotter! Get up! Get up at once!

JAMES

But why?

MATRON NURSE

(dry, cold and uncaring)

You re leaving the orphanage, effective immediately.

(The MATRON NURSE spits a loogie into her hand, rubs her hands together and then attempts to calm JAMES wild hair with her hands and fresh loogie gel.)

JAMES

But where am I to go?


MATRON NURSE

They ve found family to take you in.

JAMES

But, I don t have any family.

MATRON NURSE

You ve got two aunts. They live in Dover.

(The MATRON NURSE puts a tie around JAMES neck.)

JAMES

Dover? But, that s where I lived with my Mum and Dad

MATRON NURSE

(impatiently)

And now it s where you re gonna live with your aunties. Pack your things in  ere.

(The MATRON NURSE hands JAMES a small suitcase.)

JAMES

Yes, Mum.

(JAMES folds his father s glasses inside his mother s scarf carefully, and places them inside the suitcase.)

MATRON NURSE

(picking up the scarf and glasses)

That s all you ve got? No clothes? No toothbrush?

JAMES

(taking the glasses and scarf back)

These belonged to my parents and they are the most important things in the entire world to me.

MATRON NURSE

The most important thing from here on is your aunties. You do everything they ask of you. Don t talk back, or be a nuisance. You can t ever come back here James. You ve got a family to take care of you now.

JAMES

Yes, Mum.

MATRON NURSE

Come along. We re gonna have to  urry if we re gonna make the train to Dover.