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Plot SummaryLisa DillonPhoto: Keith PattisonWhy has this happened tous? Things like this don’thappen to families like our!Why? Tell me Angela why?BarbaraScene 5telling Lucy that it was easy to get into the ward. Lucywants to come and find him later, but she owes him drugsmoney. Pete wants his drugs back, that Lucy has not paidfor and searches Lucy’s body. Lucy does not know whereher bag and purse have gone. Pete reveals how he thoughtshe was dead and alerted the ambulance. Pete insists therewere two more wraps of heroin with her, although Lucywas unconscious and does know what happened to it. Petepulls a Stanley knife from his pocket, threatening her withit while he feels to see if she has hidden the heroin in hervagina. Lucy is angry but Pete is firm: she owes him £40.Pete says he never believes junkies and Lucy is outraged tobe called a junkie.As Pete threatens Lucy with the knife once more, Barbaraenters. Pete hides the knife and Lucy tells her mother he isfriend who is just leaving; Barbara thanks him for visiting.Lucy asks her mother to give Pete £40 and Barbara asks ifthe money is for drugs. Barbara gives Pete the moneybefore slapping him hard in the face. Pete threatens tostab Barbara if she ever does it again, and Barbara goadshim on – him going to prison would take him away fromher daughter. In this scene can see that Lucy’s drug habithas taken her into a harder world from the ‘social’ usebefore – Pete is tougher and more dangerous than Zac.We learn that Lucy was pronounced dead on admission,and that Barbara lost her husband, Lucy’s father, whenLucy was a baby – she could not bear to lose Lucy. Peteleaves and Barbara drinks some brandy from a hip flask inher bag, Lucy asks for some but Barbara denies her. Lucyand Barbara hug and say that they love each other.Scene 5A few weeks later in Barbara’s house. Angela and Barbaraare talking, and Barbara is drinking red wine. We learn thata whole year has passed since Scene Two, where Angelaleft refusing to return; they have not spoken in-between.Angela tells Barbara that she has had a relationship with aman, but suffered an ectopic pregnancy and that the manleft her two months ago – she feels terrible. Barbara saysthat she loves Angela and regrets saying the unkind thingsshe said previously, but also that she does not understandAngela as a person: Lucy is much simpler to relate to. Sheapologises and the women embrace.Barbara reveals that Lucy has been missing for two weeks,and these disappearances have become increasinglycommon. Barbara fears that Lucy will be found in a gutterand it will be spread across the newspapers, and that herlife will be ruined by this exposure. Angela challenges hermother, asking why and how she loves her; Barbara avoidsan answer. Angela believes that Barbara has never actuallybeen able to love her. She further believes her mother is9 Resource Pack: The Knot of the Heart
Margot Leicester and Kieran BewPhoto: Keith PattisonI want to change mylife. I want to so badly.Please.LucyScene 6out of touch with reality, because she refuses to accept the truth ofhow her father died.At this point, the phone rings and it is Lucy, saying that she needsmoney or her dealer will kill her. She screams and the line goes dead.Barbara is very distressed, convinced that Lucy will end up dead, andshe slaps her own face. She asks Angela what they should do, beforegoing down on her knees, pleading for help and repeatedly slappingherself. Angela believes there is nothing more they can do, that Lucyis better off on her own, because Barbara enables her habit. Barbarawants to know why this is happening to ‘a family like ours’ andAngela makes to leave. Barbara pleads for her to stay; Angelarelents, giving her mother back her wine glass.Scene 6The Accident and Emergency Department of the WhittingtonHospital. Lucy is sitting on a trolley blood running from a cut on herright hand. We see her in a completely altered and dishevelled state:a complete transformation from the beginning of the play. Brian, amale nurse, is attending to her and asks how she has injured herhand. Lucy is clearly under the influence of drugs and replies that shecan’t tell; she also tells him that she has been on television. Briandoesn’t recognise her and says he’ll stitch her wound and send herhome; Lucy becomes distressed by this thought. The nurse askswhere she lives and Lucy does not answer. Brian tells stories of adoctor and two homeless people who are also drug users. He askswhy Lucy is sleeping rough if she is a television presenter and shesays she is staying with some of her millions of friends; she has alsolost her job presenting CBBC’s Animal House, a job she loved. Lucyconfesses that she is in trouble and whispers to Brian that she hasbeen raped. Brian asks Lucy’s permission to make a telephone call toget her specialist help, but Lucy says she wants to leave and not bePlot SummaryResource Pack: The Knot of the Heart10
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Page 20 and 21: Interview: David EldridgeAlmeida Pr
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