“LUSH: I said - A year? You haven’t seen him for a year? But that’s ridiculous. Didn’t you come down for Mother’s Day, or Thanksgiving Day, or for the annual summer picnic for patients, staff, relatives and friends? Weren’t you invited to the Halloween feast, the May Dance, the October Revival, the Old Boys and Girls supper and social? Dancing on the lawn, cold buffets on the flat roof, midnight croquet, barbecued boar by the lake? None of this? I never knew about it, she said. What! I said. The autumn art exhibition, the monthly concert of orchestral music in the bandroom, the half-yearly debate on a selected topic, held traditionally in the men’s changing room? The Pageant? The unveiling? The festival of one act plays, judged by Miss Daisy Cutts, L.R.M.B, A.C.A, our dramatic instructor? You came down, I said, for none of these activities and ceremonies through which we from time immemorial engage and channel our patients’ energies? Oh dear, she said, I was never told. Obviously a clerical error, I said, I shall have it looked into.”

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Lush’s ‘Social Events’ Speech from The Hothouse i.e. my favourite monologue of all time (via johnheffernans)

But, I said, it is a shame that you haven’t seen him, since he is now DEPARTED FROM US.