You’re always gonna turn into one of your parents aren’t you, it’s basically about choosing the one who’s slightly less mental" We catch up with Chelsea Walker, director of Georgia Christou's Yous Two, about career highlights, directing heroes and life advice. The show hastens, too speedily, through a final act, leaving you burning for just a few more minutes with these characters. All in all, though, this is a measured and well-oiled writing debut from Christou. Yous Two is the 50th show in the Downstairs space at the Hampstead since its new writing initiative started in 2010, and, if this piece is a sign of what's to come, then I'm already excited for the next 50.

This one is found all over the English-speaking world, from Ireland to South Africa, to New Zealand, to New Jersey. It makes a lot of sense. How do you make something plural? Add an 's'! 7. YeBoth Rachel and Fudge are also given lines that question the capabilities of their own parents. Rachel says that her mum and dad don’t get on, and she thinks her father is having an affair because he owns two phones; she is also worried when Billie wants her to help her give birth. Meanwhile, Fudge, the cool kid in class, has his own ideas about his extended family—“twenty-six of us on Christmas Day.” They will love Billie, and they will help look after her child. At one point, he says, “If it was a boy I’d wanna call him some hench name like Aslan.” Hilarious. That nine of clubs looked like a right carry-on, didn't she? What was it you said your name was again? Mark. Yous(e) as a singular is found in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Cincinnati, and scattered throughout working class Italian-American communities in the Rust Belt. It is found in Australian English, though is uncommon there. [1] With its 70 minutes distributed over nine neat scenes, Yous Two is a short play but a resonant one. Chelsea Walker’s vigorous production, with a cutaway design by Rosanna Vize, has four excellent performances: Shannon Tarbet’s Billie is sparky but also thoughtful, even melancholic, often more mature than her dad (Joseph Thompson as a lovable rogue). Leah Harvey’s Rachel and Ali Barouti’s Fudge are likewise vivid character studies, completely convincing. Parenthood can be both empowering and fragile, and Christou’s debut is thrilling in its aplomb and in her potential. Definitely a name to watch. We can see that this might be a natural response on the part of immigrants (and not just Italians) whose first languages had both singular and plural forms.

Who I think got it off Piggy Patterson, him with the gastric band that burst at the trampoline park. In American English the pronoun you has been supplemented by additional forms to make clear the distinction between singular and plural. You-all, often pronounced as one syllable, is a widespread spoken form in the South Midland and Southern United States. Its possessive is often you-all's rather than your. Like Clare McIntyre’s Low Level Panic, Yous Two is set entirely in a bathroom, although this one has a manky carpet, a faint smell of piss and is in need of really good coat of paint. It belongs to Jonny, the tenant and 36-year-old single parent of his 15-year-old daughter Billie, whose mum committed suicide soon after her birth. In the bathroom, Billie chats to her dad, and entertains her school friends Rachel and Fudge. She is a lively, intelligent teen who gets great grades for maths and science, and has ambitions to go to a better school, as well as to uni. But when she gets unexpectantly pregnant, her future is suddenly put in doubt. I ham of Upinion, that relidgin can be of no youſe to any mortal Sole; bycauſe as why, relidgin is no youſe to trayd, and if relidgin be of no youſe to trayd, how ist it youſefool to Soſyaty. Now no body can deny, but that a man maye kary on his trayd very wel without relidgin; nay, and beter two, for then he may wurk won day in a wik mor than at preſent; whereof no body can ſaye but the ſeven is mor than ſix: Beſides, if we haf no relidgin we ſhall have no Pairſuns, and that will be a grate favin to the ſoſyaty; and it is a Makſum in trayd, that a peny ſaved is a peny got.The bathroom set was very impressive with amazing attention to detail witha manky carpet, in need of a fresh coat of paint butcomplete with working bath, toilet and basin. I had the pleasure of a guided tour from the director after the show and was impressed to see all the intricate plumbing behind the scenes. What are yous having? Can I get Pete's fry-up? Listen, what about that big, hairy Bluto bastard, Boabby? Is this The Clansman? HIGH-PITCHED VOICE: No, The Clansman's next door. Since in French, the s at the end connects with the vowel of the next word to form a z kind of sound in both cases. If the next word does not start with a vowel, then the sound is simply vou/ vu which sounds more like "you". You guys as increasingly found in General American as a generic second person plural. The fact that people use it even for a mixed gender or all female group implies a certain level of grammaticalisation of the form. I’ve accepted this but, in the interest of regaining some dignity, I do have a theory about its origins. New York is a city of immigrants who, like my grandparents, may have learned the English language but may have also retained some of the grammar of the home country. In English we express the plural of “you” with “you two” or “you three” or, in Katie Couric’s case, “you all.” But in Latin languages it is expressed with one word that, literally translated would be “yous” (for example: vous in French or vosotros in Spanish).

Ali Barouti, Leah Harvey, Shannon Tarbet and Joseph Thompson will star in Georgia Christou's debut play Yous Two, directed by Chelsea Walker and playing Downstairs 18 January - 24 February. First thing to note is that English is an ever changing language with many different dialects, one of which is taken to be "standard" or "correct" English. However, words from regional dialects or newly coined words cross over into standard English all the time. Given that Texas (low central dot) Arkansas (dot just right of it) and Florida (extreme southeast) are warm weather states, one can hypothesize that these dots represent relocated, possibly retired people. The three dots on the extreme left are in California, which is full of people relocated from other areas of the USA. The word ye, yis or yous, otherwise archaic, is still used in place of "you" for the second-person plural. Ye'r, Yisser or Yousser are the possessive forms, e.g. " Where are yous going?" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

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This one is a hallmark of the dialect known as "Pittsburghese." People who speak this dialect are referred to as "yinzers." 3. You-uns plural ) : ( chiefly Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , New York City , New Jersey , Philadelphia ,Delaware ,Boston , New England ,Northeastern United States , Chicago , Cincinnati , Liverpool ,Cape Breton , Ireland , Scotland , Michigan , Tyneside , Wearside , Teesside ) With its 70 minutes distributed over nine neat scenes, Yous Two is a short play but a resonant one. Chelsea Walker’s vigorous production, with a cutaway design by Rosanna Vize, has four excellent performances: Shannon Tarbet’s Billie is sparky but also thoughtful, even melancholic, often more mature than her dad (Joseph Thompson as a lovable rogue). Leah Harvey’s Rachel and Ali Barouti’s Fudge are likewise vivid character studies, completely convincing. Parenthood can be both empowering and fragile, and Christou’s debut is thrilling in its aplomb and in her potential. Definitely, a name to watch. Lots of languages have distinct plural forms for "you." When talking to more than one person, the French use vous; the Italians, voi; the Spanish, ustedes; and the Germans, ihr. Wouldn't it be useful if English had one too? That big angry bear pulling your pint then looking for an excuse to glass you with an empty tumbler? No.

In the parts of the U.S. where they don't use "y'all," they use "you guys" instead, as shown on the map above. 5. You Lot I have to point out another French resemblance, but instead of tu and "you" as alephzero presented, there's a closer resemblance with vous: You were at Hampstead last year assisting James Macdonald on Mike Bartlett’s Wild – how does it feel to now be directing your own production at Hampstead Downstairs?Or a die-cast model of JFK's Lincoln Continental moments before he was plugged from the grassy knoll! We want 12 quid! What about this? A full complement of filthy, dirty porno cards fae Santa Ponsa. What’s particularly impressive is the playwright’s attention to the detail of the exchanges between parent and child, how Billie deliberately provokes Jonny by using explicit descriptions of a friend’s underwear, while her dad wearily replies, “Behave.” And then there’s an exact sensitivity to class: one of Billie’s classmates “gets thrush cream from her mum”, who “makes documentaries for Channel 4 so she’s probably quite used to stuff like that”. The mixture of a teen’s growing perception of class and social relations with a daughter’s negotiations with her parent is exactly conveyed. Likewise, I appreciated the combination of directness and tenderness. Lovely writing. Yous(e) as a plural is found mainly in (Northern) England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, northern Nova Scotia, parts of Ontario in Canada and parts of the northeastern United States (especially areas like Boston where there was historically Irish immigration) and in Mexican-American communities in the southwest. It also occurs in Scouse.