Today we were told to re-write a play we had previously written without looking at it. Clearly we’re being memory tested this week! I chose a play called “Probably Best Not to Flush” and called it:

“Probably Best Not to Flush (…Again)”.

Originally wrote this soon after the Westminster Bridge attacks in London in 2017 whilst sat in a coffee shop in Croydon. Wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy this or not really – never tried anything like it before. But found I really enjoyed revisiting these characters – still found a fun relationship between them. Definitely changed dialogue and the specifics but broad brush strokes were really very similar which was interesting…

Story is a white, very ‘British’ man in a toilet in a London hotel trying to avoid his retirement party from the civil service. Suddenly there’s banging and panic outside – a young Bangladeshi woman comes into the toilet in a panic and locks the door saying there’s a terror alert. As bangs and footsteps torment them outside the door they bond over chocolate brownies from Borough Market and the fact that actually he was born in Dhaka and she from Haringey. And that he secretly pretends to the straight and she secretly pretends to her English boyfriend she’s not also engaged to some guy her family have selected in Pakistan. As the bangs start to sound suspiciously like fireworks they both realise they’ve made a silly mistake. Some guy knocks on the door to tell them to hurry up and Laboni leaves laughing and tells him… “Probably Best Not to Flush”…