Soul Cakes (Stage, 2020)

'That look on your face as you push me away!

"Why aren’t you dead?" you cry. "Why aren’t you dead?"

(A PAUSE).

"I am", I say.'

....

'In my head, there’s something... like a short film that keeps repeating. I’m under a blanket, listening, knowing for sure that I’m about to be swallowed up. There’s a sound - like a hurricane - blowing through the trees at the edge of the field. Or like an ocean swell, a huge wall of water rising up over the branches, blocking out the stars and the moon. I curl up into myself, and wish I was somewhere else.

(BEAT)

And then, a moment later - I am! Pulled up by my hair, dragged across a dank room full of shivering children - thrown into a world of smoke and metal and oil and noise.'

The player:

Josie Lauren Ellis