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    Gigi & Dar (NHB Modern Plays)
    Gigi & Dar (NHB Modern Plays)
    Gigi & Dar (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Gigi & Dar (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Josh Azouz

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    'Private Gigi. One Direction awaits your commands.'
    A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army.
    Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she'd be shot today. And there's a strange vehicle heading their way… Well, that's okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right?
    A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive, Josh Azouz's play Gigi & Dar was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Kathryn Hunter.
    'Surreal, very funny… an anti-war message through off-kilter comedy… It's a bit Becketty – two characters waiting around – and a bit Pintery in the humour it finds in a black situation. And it's pretty great' - Time Out
    'Sharply relevant… a scalpel-sharp, tragi-comic delve into the dangerous mundanity of the theatre of war… devastatingly effective' - The Stage
    'Brutal but balanced, with complexly drawn characters… invites us to consider what happens next after the suffering' - Broadway World
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateOct 24, 2024
    ISBN9781788508469
    Gigi & Dar (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Josh Azouz

    Josh Azouz is an award-winning playwright. His plays include Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida Theatre), Buggy Baby and The Mikvah Project (both for the Yard Theatre).

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      Gigi & Dar (NHB Modern Plays) - Josh Azouz

      Josh Azouz

      GIGI & DAR

      NICK HERN BOOKS

      London

      www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

      Contents

      Original Production Details

      Thanks

      Characters

      Setting

      Notes on the Text

      Gigi & Dar

      About the Author

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information

      Gigi & Dar premiered at Arcola Theatre on 3 October 2024. The cast was as follows:

      Gigi & Dar was developed with the support of The Bush, The National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East and The Yard.

      The producers would like to thank Bare Arms for their support with the production.

      Thanks

      A special thank you to Kathryn Hunter, and the original cast and creative team.

      To the people who have helped develop this play: Shyvonne Ahmmad, Gemma Barnett, Luca Kamleh Chapman, Robert Delamere, Omar Elerian, Pooja Ghai, Holly Gilliam, Georgia Green, Laura Hanna, Daniella Issacs, Dean Judkowsky, Flora Spencer Longhurst, Rory McGregor, Adi Noy, Stewart Pringle, Matthew Schmolle, Giles Smart, Amalia Vitale, Ashleigh Wheeler.

      Lastly to Amanda. For everything.

      Characters

      GIGI, female, nineteen

      DAR, female, twenty

      ZOZ, female, forty

      SIM, male, sixteen

      OFFICER REMO, voice-over, female, aged twenty-two

      This character could be voiced live (off-stage) by the actor who plays ZOZ.

      Setting

      A remote area in a contested land

      It begins barren

      Later, it flowers

      Unless it’s just a stage. And all is imagined.

      Time

      2016, but time misbehaves.

      Notes on the Text

      An ellipsis … denotes a struggle to clarify a thought, or an unspoken thought.

      Words in square brackets [ ] should be played by actor not spoken out loud.

      Double space, or more, between lines are invitations for longer silences and / or non-verbal action.

      Characters move seamlessly between talking to each other and talking to the audience.

      The lyrics from Dar’s song are ‘Toothpaste Kisses’ by The Maccabees. These could be substituted for something else.

      This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

      Lights up on a barren space.

      A chain of spikes might run across the ground.

      Upstage is a colourful concrete cabin.

      Downstage is a sun umbrella and a couple of brightly coloured canvas chairs.

      GIGI and DAR enter.

      GIGI plants a shovel ominously into the ground.

      DAR throws down some metal parts.

      GIGI and DAR assemble their M4s.

      After they finish building their guns, they sit on the chairs.

      An alarm goes off on DAR’s watch.

      DAR turns to the audience.

      DAR. Welcome to roadblock 432.

      Now I know what you’re thinking. Where are the gun towers? Where are the dogs? Yeah, we don’t need that. We’ve been dropped in deserts without water. We’ve climbed mountains in our pyjamas. So sit back, relax, make yourself comfortable – it’s an eight-hour shift. Hey, don’t look so worried, nothing ever happens here – does it G?

      GIGI gives DAR a look.

      Okay things happen. But not here. And certainly not to us.

      I’m Dar. This is Gigi.

      GIGI. Hi.

      DAR. Normally Gigi is chatty, can’t shut the girl up – Why are you being shy?

      GIGI. [I’m not being shy.] Just do the time and place.

      DAR. For security reasons we can’t tell you where this roadblock is. To be

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