b'Show DayScarlett SimmsThrough her short play, written for the Playwriting module, Scarlett Simms aims to explore the cultural avoidance of death in the UK through an ABBA family cover bands experience of losing the matriarch of their household. This scene comes at the climax of the play, the day before the one-year anniversary of the mothers death and the day before theyre set to do another gig.Scene 3.Lights slowly come up. A warm, dim wash covers the stage. NIGHTBEFORE SHOW DAY is projected on the back wall. The text is staticky, and it turns off abruptly, like retro TV graphics. The distorted music from the scene 1 plays quietly. BOY sits on the floor with his back against the bed, facing the audience, looking at his phone and reading off the screen.BOY:I searched. your surname. on Facebook. and found something funny. Whats so fucking funny? Dickhead. (He groans in frustration.) Its Dads fault! Fucking no-internet-awareness wankerthis cant be real.He puts his phone face down. A pause. A notification sounds and he looks at his screen again. He reads off the message in a monotone manner.BOY (cont.): Your sister is fit, also nice leggings fuck off!BOY chucks his phone onto the other end of the bed, presses the heel of his hands into his eye sockets, and makes a pitiful, frustrated noise. The music crescendos. SIS and DAD enter stage left. DAD sits on thedownstage side of the sofa holding a tray with three ready meals withcutlery on it, placing it onto the coffee table. SIS knocks once on the chest of drawers.SIS:You ready for dinner?BOY:Shove it!The music stops playing. A pause.SIS:Well, theres still dinner waiting. Its curry. Why do you look like that?Piranesi in rehearsal. Photo by Gemma Veal BOY:Huh?68 69'