An Autumn Affair
by Ken Armstrong - Screenplay Extract
INT – JUNE’S LIVING ROOM
JUNE's key scratches nervously in the front door. She finally gets it
open.
I thought Marge might come in for a cup of tea.
June and MIGUEL enter the living room. June turns the light on and nervously
flits around fluffing up cushions.
She seemed not happy.
Oh that's just Marge. You'll have a cup of tea.
No.
He hunkers down and unzips his bag.
With a little flourish, he produces a bottle of Duty Free wine.
For you.
Oh, thanks.
I am hopeful you will wish to open it now?
Are you? Right. Oh right!
You have… sacacorchos?
Yes. Sorry?
Sacacorchos.
He mimes drawing the cork out of the bottle.
A corkscrew!
Si 'corkscrew' saca-corchos.
Saca… korcos.
Nononono, sacha-corrrrrrchos.
We_ haven't got one.
No?
He wasn't much for wine, any alcohol really. A health freak.
Her eyes move to the photos on the mantle.
Your husband?
Joseph, Joe.
He is…
Dead, Yes, six months.
This is sad. I too have lost my wife.
He studies the photographs of the boy and the girl.
Your family?
They're grown now, moved away.
His eyes move to another photograph, Joe with a strong confident-looking
man (Eric from scene 1).
Who is he?
Joe's boss. The bastard.
Why is ‘a bastard’ up here?
I_
Are you all decent in there?
MARGE comes in with a bundle of blankets.
Door wide open. Anyone could walk in. Still, I suppose half
the country is in already. Blankets
Thanks Marge.
Wine? Very cosy.
But we have no…
Marge produces an ancient corkscrew from her pocket.
Sacha Korkos is it? Don’t you worry your head Miguel.
Marge!!
Marge slaps the wall.
Paper thin. Sure you couldn’t have a secret in this street.
© ken armstrong 1999
claddagh films
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