The Old Disgrace
Place
Also appears as: Old Disgrace, The Disgrace
Bristol public house and principal neutral ground of the play. Red wine, conspiracy, bereavement and low enterprise circulate more freely than the beer.
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Who is found here
- Chlamydia frequented by (3 passages)
- Chris Skeletor frequented by (1 passage)
- Fadya frequented by (1 passage)
- Helix Folt frequented by (1 passage)
- Jerome Jubeyter frequented by (2 passages)
- Milton Djugashvili frequented by (2 passages)
- Mr Luvvertory frequented by (2 passages)
- Onanisticles the scagsmith ← character location (2 passages)
- Sheherezade frequented by (3 passages)
- Sleaze frequented by (1 passage)
- Squalor attended by (1 passage)
- Suliman frequented by (2 passages)
From the books (8 passages)
…Behind this Place de Cons, in a cul de sac, slumbers the Old Disgrace.
The Disgrace boasts, if that is the word for it, a pedigree of some two hundred years of more or less continuous debauchery. Its genesis was as an establishment beyond the City walls, in virtue of which it lay also beyond the edict of the magistrates, and in this capacity it has ever since limned the, as it were, bordelline between respectable resort and knocking shop. In this manner the…
…abode, but so condescended as to dignify with his presence the nearest public house, which happened to be the Old Disgrace, and which occupied the side of a cul-de-sac fifty or sixty yards along the pavement to the right of Bath Buildings.
(The covered terrace of the The Old Disgrace. Two tables/bench tables. At one of these, SULIMAN is seated. He is drinking red wine, and reading a book, possibly Persian love-poetry. At the other table, MR LUVVERTORY is seated.)
(The covered terrace of the Old Disgrace. CHLAMYDIA at one table. SULIMAN at the other table, again reading poetry rather than bantering with PUBGIMPS or any such vulgar fellows. Enter SLEAZE. Ignoring SULIMAN, he addresses himself to CHLAMYDIA)
(The covered terrace of the Old Disgrace. SHEHEREZADE at a table with Fadya, who is bedecked with flowers.)
(The back terrace of the Old Disgrace. At one table, SHEHEREZADE & CHLAMYDIA. At another table, MR LUVVERTORY, LITTLE SHIT, & FUKBOI)
(The back terrace of The Old Disgrace. At a table, SQUALOR covered with blood, and festooned as before with cans from which betimes he drinks. Enter MR LUVVERTORY. Enter also SHEHEREZADE & CHLAMYDIA, who conceal themselves from MR LUVVERTORY.)