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High Ridin'

  • James Hogan
  • Short Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573115936

High Ridin' is an unlikely comic love story of two men who don't live likely lives.

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: Drugs, Alcohol, Intense Adult Themes, Strong Language
Teenager Ronnie travels to the North to find a job and a new life. Ex-bouncer Stan, just out of prison, gives him a lift. But not to the North. Instead, he takes charge and speeds off the motorway to a deserted house on the moors. But Ronnie doesn't get  exactly what he was looking for when he finds Stan: "Has more morals that Mary Poppins." 

High Ridin' is an unlikely comic love story of two men who don't live likely lives.

Premiere Production: High Ridin' was first performed at the Kings Head Theatre, London, on 4th September, 2018.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 1F

  • STAN, aged forty-five, is a loner but not a happy one. He left home after his father discovered he was queer, took a job in night security and ended up in prison for small-time drug dealing. He has also lost his best pal, his dog (Mastiff). With a chip on his shoulder, his demeanour is "straight" brutal working class. Tough and gruff at first, his wounded emotions surface later in the play.

  • IVY, aged seventy-plus. Of the old school. At first homophobic and vociferously disapproving of Stan and his lifestyle. Her religious convictions are only skin deep. She's not above stealing from a dead man's house, items which she conveniently regards as her entitlement. It is her offstage husband, Derrick, who represents a conscience turns the tables. Towards the end of the play the latent warmth in her character is re-awakened. She wants the family guest house restored and takes the action need to make it happen.

  • RONNIE, aged eighteen. A hard-nosed working-class teenager raised in South London against a background of a multicultural melting pot of gangs and estate life. But Ronnie has charm, and this doesn't fit with his coarse background. Neither does his background fit with being queer. Pluckily, he had decided to go it alone, as so many young queer men do. His catering qualification is his only hope for a new job far away in Blackpool. The one emotional pull towards home is also a dog, the Staffie he pines for which he had to leave behind.

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    Teenager Ronnie travels to the North to find a job and a new life. Ex-bouncer Stan, just out of prison, gives him a lift. But not to the North. Instead, he takes charge and speeds off the motorway to a deserted house on the moors. But Ronnie doesn't get  exactly what he was looking for when he finds Stan: "Has more morals that Mary Poppins." 

    High Ridin' is an unlikely comic love story of two men who don't live likely lives.

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