HOPPING DOWN IN KENT
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SCENE 6
THE HOPPERS HOSPITAL
Maiher: So where are you from?
Becky: East End
Maiher: Oh, it’s not to nice down there I’ve heard
Kelly: Muuuuummmmmmm!
Kelly:
Muuuuuuuummmmmmm. I only ate these berries (holding berries)
Maiher: You
stupid little berk! I told you not to eat those berries.
Kelly: Muumm,
I feel sick.
Maiher:
What’s your father going to say when we get home?
He’ll blame it all on me you stupid little girl.
Becky: You
better take her off to the hoppers hospital
Becky exits. In the hospital the nurse (Emma) treats Kelly. Kelly is crying.
Emma: Don’t worry dear, a spoonful of this medicine will put you right in now time.
Maiher: I’ll come back tomorrow and see how you are then.
Maiher exits. Hospital scene pauses whilst Hannah is walking about on her Dads stilts using a binmans hook.
Hannah: I wonder how Kelly is getting on? (Mutters to herself)
Hannah trips over something on the floor and falls off stage.
Hannah: Aaaaaaaagh! (Screaming)
Becky: My poor baby!
Coming on stage crying hysterically Becky carries Hannah to the hospital, which know begins to carry on where they left off.
Emma: Now what seems to be the problem with your daughter?
Becky (Still crying): She fell off them long wooden stilts, whilst using that pole with a hook on the end, you know, the one used for getting down wires, what is it called?
Emma: Oh, you mean the Binmans Hook.
Becky: Yes that’s the one. Well she nicked my husbands stilts, and know look what she ahs done
Emma: Now just you calm down Becky
Emma: Know what seems to be the matter with you Hannah?
Hannah: Nothing! It was just the shock, which made me scream. Can I get up now?
Emma: No, you just lay down and keep still. (Turning to Becky) Well Becky, nothing much seems wrong with your daughter, so you can take her home now. And if it is possible could you take Kelly back to her mother on the way, because she is feeling recovered now.
Becky: Of course. I’m so glad my daughter is ok.
Emma: Londoners! What shall we do with them?