Rough for Theatre 1 features a blind man ('A') and a physically disabled man ('B') who meet by chance and consider the possibility of joining forces to unite sight and mobility in the interests of survival.

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00.37

A: A penny for a poor old man, a penny for a poor old man. A penny for a poor old man!

07.10

B: Do you think we would make a match, now you are getting to know me?

09.50

B: Stop! [He strikes behind him with the pole. A lets go the chair, recoils.]

14.05

B: Day … night … [Looks.] It seems to me sometimes the earth must have got stuck, one sunless day, in the heart of winter, in the grey of evening.

17.00

[A whirls round, seizes the end of the pole and wrenches it from B's grasp.]