LEWIS: [bemused] Yes, Roy.

ROY goes.

[Addressing the audience] There was no next year. This theatre mysteriously burnt down a week after the performance and Doug was the major suspect. I shifted house soon after Così and so I only got one love letter from Cherry, who told me to think of her every time I played with the flick-knife. Lucy and Nick? Well, they didn’t last long as both were not into fidelity. Lucy became an academic and Nick became a Labour MP in the Upper House. Ruth left the institution to become a time and motion expert. Henry? He died soon after Così. Roy? He went from ward to ward after his fellow patients took up petitions to get rid of him. By the following year I was in Sydney and not long after that I saw Julie’s name in the paper. She had died of a drug overdose. And Zac? He left the asylum and founded a rock and roll group called The Psychotic Wagners. They had a minor hit. A few years later I heard he had started a polka band which was very big in the Melbourne German and Austrian club circuit. [A beat.] Time to turn out the lights.

He turns off the lights. Blackout.

THE END