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    Earlier Fatality
    Earlier Fatality
    Earlier Fatality
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    Earlier Fatality

    By Ava Carpzov

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    When ridiculously rich couple, Martin and Barbara, board a train to London little do they know they are about to go on a journey which will change their lives forever!
    Martin and his wife are multimillionaires who enjoy all the trappings of wealth but treat others like possessions. One day, when their chauffeur is sick, they are forced to travel to London by train; something they rarely do. On the way the train is delayed several times and we learn that Martin is a tyrannical employer who bullies his call centre staff and has sacked a young girl due to illness. As a result the girl is now reduced to begging for food on the train. The train seems to have a life of its own and the conductor is something of a mystery. It is only when the train stops one final time that Martin and Barbara realise the serious consequences of their actions. This is a play about how the little things we do can have a big effect on those around us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAva Carpzov
    Release dateJun 15, 2020
    ISBN9780463356098
    Earlier Fatality
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    Ava Carpzov

    Ava Carpzov was born in England in 1967. She lived in Athens, Greece for six years after moving there to teach English as a foreign language. She has a degree in English Literature and also writes short horror and science fiction stories.

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      Earlier Fatality - Ava Carpzov

      *******

      EARLIER FATALITY

      A RADIO PLAY

      By

      Ava Carpzov

      *******

      All rights reserved, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any means, electronic, mechanical photocopying, documentary, film or in any other format without prior written permission of the author.

      Copyright © Anne-Marie Norman 2013

      Thanks to Cattalin, Pixabay, for the cover photo

      This play is a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents in the play are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of the playwright.

      *******

      CHARACTERS:

      MARTIN PONSFORD Is 58, Yorkshire born but moved South, a businessman who owns and runs large call centres.

      BARBARA PONSFORD Is 55, from Surrey and is Martin’s wife.

      CONDUCTOR/STATION MASTER Is 35 and studies philosophy at night class.

      GIRL AT STATION Is 19 and homeless.

      ACT I SCENE 1

      BARBARA and MARTIN are waiting to get on a train at Littlehampton Station.

      BARBARA: It’s in a lot of place names that, isn’t it? ‘Hamp’. What does that mean, ‘Hamp’?

      MARTIN: I’ve no idea, well, ‘little’ means small and ‘hampton’ means…I don’t know, town or fort or river or something.

      BARBARA: I know what ‘little’ means, and river’s ‘ford’.

      MARTIN: Does it matter?

      BARBARA: Don’t you want to find out?

      MARTIN: Not particularly.

      BARBARA: Oh, look at those little gnomes. There’s a group of little gnomes on the railway track next to the flowers.

      STATION MASTER: I see you’ve spotted our miniature family.

      BARBARA: They’ve got a red caravan.

      MARTIN: And a wheelbarrow.

      BARBARA: And a bridge.

      STATION MASTER: And that one’s got an umbrella. A new addition.

      MARTIN: Where did they all come from?

      STATION MASTER: Ireland.

      BARBARA: I thought it was Leprechauns that came from Ireland.

      MARTIN: No, I mean who put them there?

      STATION MASTER: Well, we don’t know. Whether someone comes and puts them there at night or what we’re not sure. We’ve put one or two there ourselves, then other people….probably students, they climb over the barriers at night, have added to them; give them cans of beer and that sort of thing. They do actually move you know; there have been reports of them moving.

      MARTIN: (Sarcastically) Really? Do they do anything useful?

      BARBARA: But why have you got gnomes?

      STATION MASTER: Well, Patrick at the ticket desk, bought a few over from Dublin and then more started appearing. Our passengers have taken a shine to them. Gnomes are related to trolls, you know, who are their German cousins.

      BARBARA: It’s like a proper little village with little people.

      STATION MASTER: They have got quite determined faces, haven’t they?

      MARTIN: Yes. Very nice…uh….mushroom.

      STATION MASTER: We’ve got a new sign for them that says: ‘Gnome place like home’.

      BARBARA: That one looks like our neighbour – you know, the one you had an argument with because he parked on our grassy verge.

      MARTIN: You want to make

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