Exhibition

CHURCH BELLS CHIME

SHE DIALS THE INTERCOM

CHAIR ROLLS OVERHEAD

Yeah? Do you want anything?

Mm...

You know, it'd be nice if you could come up here.

Um, maybe try and distract me from my work.

Get under the desk or something.

SHE HANGS UP

CHAIR ROLLS OVERHEAD

CHAIR ROLLS OVERHEAD

CHAIR ROLLS OVERHEAD

THUD

THUMPING UPSTAIRS

FOOTSTEPS

FOOTSTEPS

Where you going?

Ah.

CAR HORN TOOTS

FRONT DOOR OPENS

TYRES SCREECH

FOOTSTEPS

SHE SKETCHES

DOOR CLOSES

FOOTSTEPS UPSTAIRS

CHAIR ROLLS OVERHEAD

CHAIR ROLLS OVERHEAD

In a way, if you don't really talk about it or-or can't discuss it,

other people are going to decide, you know?

I know, I just don't want to discuss it with you.

Eh? I just don't want to discuss it with you.

Yeah, but I'm good, you know, I'm good practice, no?

No, 'cause you'll just say it's silly and glib.

Well, but...you know.

If you don't, you won't get it.

I'm on your side. I'm not... I'm not against you, I'm just curious.

I'm just curious, that's all.

I know, but... 'Cause why not...why not use someone else?

You should use someone else, makes life much easier.

I don't want to be put down,

criticised, and I think that's what you'll do.

Stop it before it's begun.

No.

SHE KNOCKS THE DOOR

Hi.

Hi. What you up to? Ah, eh, just...go.

It'll be better, thank you. All right, sorry.

'Yet though she played at being a child,

'she had seen through me completely.

'And though she made me her pupil there and then

'in the game of living, for each fleeting moment, she seemed to

'know more of life than is known to the wisest of the wise.

'It might be the highest wisdom or the merest artlessness.

'It is certain in any case that life is quite disarmed by the gift

'to live so entirely in the present,

'to treasure with such eager care every flower by the wayside

'and the light that plays on every passing moment.

'Was I to believe that this happy child,

'with her hearty appetite and the air of a gourmet, was at the

'same time a victim of hysterical visions who wished to die,

'or a careful calculating woman who unmoved herself at the

'conscious intention of making me her lover and her slave?

'I could not believe it.

'Know her surrender to the moment was so simple and complete that

'the fleeting shadows and agitation to the very depths of the

'soul come to her no less than every pleasurable impulse and were

'lived as fully.'

RAIN FALLS

THEY GIGGLE

SHE LAUGHS

SHE SQUEALS HAPPILY

ALARM ARMS

CAR HORN TOOTS

Did I do something?

Did I say something?

MOTOR CORD PULLED

MOTOR STARTS

MOTOR REVS

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION NOISE

Then I was in the cinema, but the screen was blank and there

were only two chairs.

And he was standing in the doorway, a very narrow doorway.

I had to squeeze through it and we touched.

I could feel him watching me, his eyes boring into me

everywhere I went.

HE SNORES SOFTLY BEHIND HER

And he called out and asked me how my work was going.

And he really listened and I told him.

He never took his eyes off me and when he spoke he had

a beautiful deep voice.

And I wanted him to touch me so badly.

SHE BREATHES SHAKILY

I can barely make any decisions at all, to be honest.

I start making decisions based on stupid things that I think about.

I thought we would just sort of miraculously come to some...

unified position,

based on a mixture of intellect and intuition that somehow

magically synchronise.

HE LAUGHS

...garden carries traces of a body, in a way,

because a yard is based on a human measurement.

So, you've got these kind of moments where you keep encountering

these three foot here, three foot there,

and they're basically the reach of an adult male.

And it's interesting that... I don't know if this was subconscious, but

it's almost like the architect had stood in the garden and then

reached out from the house, and where their fingertips were, that's

where a retaining wall would be. A low retaining wall.

So, all the way around the house

you've got these moments of...of reach.

BIRDS SING

First you look at it and you think that's some kind of...possibly

a beech tree or something like that.

But actually, if you look at the leaf shape and so on,

it's very special. Oop, sorry. Heh.

I'm always doing that.

You know... So, you know, the way it's been cut,

it means that you've got these different levels. The different

views from the different floors of the house give you a very particular

kind of layering, you know, of the foliage and what not. It's good.

Yeah, OK. Yeah, thank you. It's great, very unique.

Should we go back inside? Yeah.

I have to say, I have always wanted to be inside this house. Exactly.

Original spiral staircase and I always wonder if they...you know,

I always wonder if they intended to go right through to the roof. Mm.

I mean, it's about the only thing I would really suggest changing

about the house, probably. Right.

That would still be in keeping, you know, with its importance.

Go all the way up.

Yeah, think about it. I just think people didn't do it then.

Roof terraces. I don't know, you're the expert.

We claim to be. Yes.

How long have you lived here, do you mind me asking?

18 years, I suppose now, 17? Feels like 40 or something.

I mean... Well, don't know. Doesn't it?

Bit of a disagreement.

I really love the house still and I'll be

sorry to leave it.

Shall we go into the bedroom?

Yes, yes, of course. Right.

Might take a while.

All right.

God, it used to fit.

Don't do the neck up, it's choking me already.

You sure? Yeah.

Maybe. More?

Yeah, just up to the collar.

I'm going to go and make some things. Ahem, do I look all right?

What? Do I look all right?

Don't have any fear, just get in. Trust it. It's amazing.

We've got the wine if anything goes wrong. HE LAUGHS

LIFT STARTS

He'll end up in Feltham Young Offenders Institute anyway.

Oh, no, William, you always go to the worst-case scenario.

It is not going to get that far. It happens, you know, it happens.

It does because that's what you see every day in court.

That's not going to be Matthew's path. No.

We've just got to help him and support him. OK, all right.

He's doing his homework at the moment. Mm-hmm.

Well, that's good, you see? Well.

Yes, I mean, as long as he's doing it. Yeah.

I mean, if he... Would you mind if I just had a little look,

'cause I can see through? I just want to see that he's still...

Don't worry so much about him, he'll be OK. No, I'm just checking.

It's OK, it's OK. Sorry, it's just a bit of a stressful night. I mean...

HE CHUCKLES You know, you can imagine. I understand.

Sorry, it's very boring going on about children the whole time.

HE COUGHS

Does this actually come off or...?

Ever?

This thing.

POLE FALLS

CLATTERING

It's not about wanting to, it's the fact that we can.

We have time, we can do something.

We can...

build something. We've got possibilities, you know?

We should do it while we can.

We've been here so long.

There's no children, there's nothing to stop us doing it.

We can do what we want.

THUNDER ROLLS

OK.

Try and enjoy the house while you can. Yep.

OK?

Watch out for the phantom pisser.

BOILER HUMS AND CLANKS

ALARM ARMS

BOILER HUMS AND CLANKS

THUD

THUD

DULL RATTLE

VAGUE COMMOTION OUTSIDE

WOMAN SCREAMS

BANG

SOMEONE POUNDS ON A DOOR

ALARM SOUNDS

DOG BARKS

ALARM STOPS

CLATTERING UPSTAIRS