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Since its inception in 2011, ATYP's Voices Project has been cultivating the talents of the best young Australian actors and writers. Every year, twenty young Australian writers are chosen to each write a seven-minute monologue for a young actor, bringing to audiences the cutting edge of Australian theatre.%##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##%This selection of seventeen monologues takes the reader through the themes that have been explored in the Voices Project over the years, varying from first love to food, telling the stories of Australia.%##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##%By turns witty, touching and chilling, the monologues of the Voices Project explore, deconstruct and subvert our perceptions of modern Australian life.
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TeatroWE LIVE IN THE CITY, DONāT WE?
HOLLY BRINDLEY
Pause.
Sorry, fuck, fuck, that was a dickhead thing to do, to kiss yourāinstead ofā
I didnāt mean to kiss your head. You seem pissed off?
I wasnāt sure what to do, I didnāt mean to treat you like a little kid orā
I know it was really fucked up and rude when I said I wanted you to leave and go home, but, I didnāt say that because I donātā¦
Pause.
The thing is, what I want to tell you is thatā
You make me feel sick.
In a good way! Donāt go inside yet, please.
Itās because, okayā
Usually when Iām fucking someone I donāt realize that Iām naked.
But when we fucked I did realize I was naked and it made me feel kind of sick. But also it made me more, sort of, it made me happy, as if all the other times Iāve fucked it wasnāt really fucking. It was like I was fucking a thing, or, actually a someone, donāt worry it was a someone. But it was just me. Not um, it wasnāt me with someone else, being there together andā¦
Your skin was so warm which made me realize that I have skin. Cause unless itās really hot or really cold you donāt usually notice that you have skin on your body and that it can feel things. But because your skin was so warm, it made me realize that I have skin.
And you have the shiniest hair, itās slippery and kind of a mirror, Iām, itās hard to look in your eyes and explain, but I want to, becauseā
I wish we could start this day over becauseā
If I let my mind think, if I let it go off on its own, then it wonāt ever stop thinking so I always do whatever I can to make sure that Iām never left alone with my thoughts. Thereās got to be noise all the time to drown everything else out, thereās got to be noise or things to look at or things to do or someone to fuck and sometimes all that shit gets in the way of having a conversation with someone, of having a real conversation with you. I wanted you to go home so that we could start again because I think with you I might not mind so much if itās quiet, orā
I have to be drunk all the time. I like to be drunk so that all my conversations mean nothing but then Iām also scared of getting too drunk because then my conversations might mean everything. So I go away and thereāsā¦ things. Thereās, see I want you to know that Iāmā¦ I go away, I walk down the street right to the end where thereās a car park, do you know it? No, you donāt know it, and so itās a car park but if you jump the fence into this one section of it thereās a patch of grass which I love cause itās just this patch of grass in the middle of the concrete which is crazy, so when I sit on it, on the patch of grass, I feel like, I dunno, like Iām sitting on a magic carpet or something and I like to go there, itās a patch of grass. Nobody knows. And if I squint my eyes I can see a lake in the distance which is weird becauseā¦ we live in the city, donāt we? I just sit there and, just sit there to be there.
And I can watch the cars going past on the road nearby and the speed limit is sixty which isnāt that fast but itās fast enough that it takes my mind away from my thoughts. There are heaps of things to watch and itās not far from that road that has all those hookers, where all the hookers work. So sometimes they wander back up past the car park and I can see them and they look, I donāt know, like theyāre always cold. Even if itās a sunny day. Why donāt they bring jumpers? And one time I thought about running over to one of them who was walking not far from me and she had her arms crossed and her head was down and she had the longest hair down to her waist and it was messy but it looked really clean and um, it wasā¦ so she seemed as if she might be cold and I thought about taking my jumper off and giving it to her. Iād take it off and say, āArms upā and sheād put her arms up and Iād slide my jumper over her hands, arms, head, chest, stomach and sheād be wearing my jumper and it would probably be too big for her.
Donāt you think? Do you need somewhere to go? I mean, please donāt go in, donāt leave, I asked because I donāt know if youāre like me. I think youāre like me, I hope youāre like me, at least in some ways I do, in some ways I wouldnāt wish that on you, because, anywayā
I go to the car park and there I am. But actually Iām not there, my mind is there, but look, my body isnāt, my body isnāt there on the grass, my body is not there on the grass. Itās not. Because Iām not there because thereās definitely no lake and maybe, probably, definitely, no patch of grass actually because why would there be a patch of grass in the middle of a car park next to an apartment block?
My point is, that I didnāt mean to...