'SHADY
CREEK'
Scene
– at the country wedding reception of Stacey & Darren Warren,
Shady Creek Memorial Hall
Beverly: I knew that we shouldn't have let Darren's
parents organise the reception.
Les: It's a country town – you can't expect it
to be five star…
Beverly: But it's a ramshackle tin shed in some god-forsaken
cow paddock called 'Shady Creek'! I refuse to see my daughter's first
meal as married woman in a barn where they shear sheep!
Les: Cattle.
Beverly: What?
Les: There's no sheep – it's dairy country.
Beverly: I feel one of my 'heads' coming on.
Ray: (From the other side of the room) Les!
Les: Coming!
(Ray waves Les over and as he passes Denise & Beatrice, the
scene moves to their conversation)
Beatrice: I'm Beatrice – Darren's Great Aunt.
It's nice to have someone to talk to at my table. I thought it was going
to be all younger people.
Denise: You're only as young as the man you feel –
that's what I always say. Is there a Great Uncle?
Beatrice: Sadly no. I've never married. I did have
a steady boyfriend back in 1941 but he was drafted and ended up marrying
some floozy in unoccupied France.
Denise: Trust me – you were better off without
him. All men are bastards. My first husband – Norman – he
was fond of talking to me during love making – unfortunately it
was over the phone so needless to say that ended that marriage.
Beatrice: Really? How… er… frank.
Denise: Frank was my second husband. Honestly, I don't
know what I was thinking. It's actually quite funny how we met, you
see…
