by Ella Hickson
KATE. Hey, Dad.
IKE hugs KATE – it’s long – he means it – he’s missed her. KATE hugs him back – with equal force.
Dad – this is Albin.
IKE. We met at the door.
ALBIN. Can I take your coat?
IKE. I thought you’d be taller.
There’s a knock at the door.
ALBIN. I’ll get it.
IKE. Oh – lovely. He seems great.
KATE. He is.
Small beat – KATE smiles.
KATE picks up a bowl on the side.
Parmesan puff?
IKE. Don’t mind if I do.
IKE picks up the puff.
ALBIN enters.
NESSA enters.
NESSA. Hello, Ike.
IKE. Nessa.
Beat.
ALBIN takes KATE’s hand.
Blackout.
End of play.
ELLA HICKSON
Ella Hickson’s debut play Eight (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh) won a Fringe First Award, the Carol Tambor ‘Best of Edinburgh’ Award and was nominated for an Evening Standard Award. It transferred to the Trafalgar Studios, London, and PS122, New York. Her other plays include Precious Little Talent (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh and Trafalgar Studios, London); Hot Mess (Hawke & Hunter, Edinburgh and Latitude Festival); Soup (Òran Mór at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); PMQ (Theatre503 and HighTide Festival); Boys (HighTide Festival, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton and Soho, London) and The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Tron Theatre, Glasgow). She completed a creative writing MA at the University of Edinburgh and spent a year working with the Traverse Theatre as their Emerging Playwright on Attachment. She has taken part in the Royal Court Invitation Group and is the Pearson Playwright in Residence for the Lyric Hammersmith.
Ella is under commission to Headlong Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Radio 4, and is participating in Channel 4’s Screenwriting Course. She is a member of the Old Vic New Voices and has taken part in the 24 Hour Plays, Ignite and the T.S. Eliot UK/US Exchange.
A Nick Hern Book
The Authorised Kate Bane first published in Great Britain as a paperback original in 2012 by Nick Hern Books Limited, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP
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The Authorised Kate Bane copyright © 2012 Ella Hickson
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Cover photo by Douglas Jones; title design by Emma Quinn
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