© Chris Port, 1994. All rights reserved.
Scene 6.
Narrator, Drunk Girl, Sober Girl, Monica, Louise.
Drunk Girl argues with Sober Girl.
NARRATOR
Different drinks affect different people in different ways. But for a variety of reasons, if a girl gets drunk, then she really gets drunk. There’s something almost scary about it. You expect blokes to be pissed and almost ignore it. But if a girl gets drunk, you notice. Look here.
(Drunk Girl is dressed somewhat loosely and is noticeably the worse for wear. Sober girl and friends have noticed).
DRUNK GIRL
(To Sober Girl). You. Stop looking at me. You think I’m a tart, don’t you?
SOBER GIRL
No. What makes you say that?
DRUNK GIRL
I saw the way you were looking at me when I came in. Just because I wear a short dress, doesn’t mean I’m a tart, okay?
(The other girls snigger).
SOBER GIRL
I never said that you were. You wear what you like. Its nothing to do with me.
DRUNK GIRL
Don’t give me that you smug cow. You think you’re better than me, don’t you?
SOBER GIRL
To be honest, I don’t think about you at all.
DRUNK GIRL
Well at least I haven’t been upstairs with Mark Fowler.
SOBER GIRL
What are you talking about?
DRUNK GIRL
I saw you.
SOBER GIRL
He wasn’t well so I helped him to the toilet.
DRUNK GIRL
I’ll bet that wasn’t all you helped him with.
SOBER GIRL
Just because you go around behaving like a slag, don’t assume that other people do.
DRUNK GIRL
You’ve asked for it.
(A fight breaks out but is stopped by Monica and Louise).
MONICA
(To Drunk Girl). Get out.
DRUNK GIRL
(Pointing at Sober Girl). She started it. The stuck-up bitch.
MONICA
I don’t care. Just get out, will you?
DRUNK GIRL
Alright. Your party’s crap, anyway. I’m going to Tracy Johnson’s. (To Sober Girl). I’ll be seeing you later.
SOBER GIRL
Oh just piss off!
(Drunk Girl goes to attack Sober Girl again but is held back by others and escorted out).
DRUNK GIRL
(Shouting from offstage). Stuck-up slags!
MONICA
(To Louise). I knew this sort of thing would happen. Is she one of your friends?
LOUISE
No. I think she came with Dave Wiley.
MONICA
Well where’s he then?
LOUISE
He got fed up with her and left.
MONICA
I don’t blame him. I think I would too if I didn’t live here already. 
'Women, we've got to talk about our drinking: British girls are the west's biggest teenage drinkers. As we were with tobacco, we're in deep denial about the dangers of alcohol'
ReplyDeleteAnn Dowsett Johnston, The Guardian, 3 October 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/03/women-got-to-talk-about-drinking