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Eyes to the Floor
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Chronicles the experience of girls sent from Parramatta Girls Home to the Hay Girls Home for even more brutal, punitive treatment. Written to be played by young adults, this moving work emphasises the childish vulnerability of the inmates in a world where they must find connection with each other in order to to survive. Artfully woven with movement, chorus work and poetry, it is a compelling companion work to Parramatta Girls.
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SCENE ONE
FIONA stands alone on stage. She holds a long lead with a single light bulb on it. She holds the bulb up to her face and then swings the bulb back and forth across her face. Finally she spins the globe in circles around her head.
FIONA: Committal to an Institution. Fiona June Hodges. Born 22.2.1944. Charge: Neglected and Exposed to Moral Danger.
JANE enters the stage. She too has a long lead with a single bulb and performs the same actions as FIONA.
JANE: Committal to an Institution: Jane Dawn Rogers. Born 19.6.1945. Charge: Neglect and Exposed to Moral Danger.
EMMA enters the stage. She too has a long lead with a single bulb and performs the same actions as JANE.
EMMA: Committal to an Institution: Emma Abbot. Born 21.8.1947. Charge: Uncontrollable. Escape from Cootamundra Girls Home.
GWEN enters the stage. She too has a long lead with a single bulb and performs the same actions as EMMA.
GWEN: Committal to an Institution: Gwen Gill. Born 9.3.1945. Charge: Uncontrollable. Escape from Cootamundra Girls Home.
MARJORIE enters the stage. She too has a long lead with a single bulb and performs the same actions as GWEN.
MARJORIE: Committal to an Institution: Marjorie Linnett. Born 6.11.1944. Charge: Uncontrollable and Exposed to Moral Danger.
DANIELLA enters the stage. She too has a long lead with a single bulb and performs the same actions as MARJORIE.
DANIELLA: Committal to an Institution: Daniella Andrea Greaves. Born 14.5.1946. Charge: Uncontrollable and exposed to Moral Danger.
FIONA: General Comment: Last Saturday afternoon it became apparent that Hodges had assumed leadership of the girls and the recreation period was very disturbed by her. Girls who previously were conforming satisfactorily became troublesome.
JANE: Home situation: The home is a fibro-lined tin shack in a poor state of repair. Home contains two tiny rooms. One is a kitchen where the father sleeps, in the other room, Jane, Louise and baby shared one bed, three younger boys share second bed and two eldest boys share third bed.
EMMA: Home situation: Emma had been removed from home when father charged with shooting uncle in the thigh.
GWEN: Home situation: Became a ward of the state at six months old. Was living with a foster family, the Anthonys who commented that her behaviour whilst in the home could not be faulted, but her behaviour outside was most undesirable and they had not been able to control her.
MARJORIE: Home Situation: Father still caring for large family of brothers and sisters after mother died of cancer one year ago. Father seems to have taken to drinking after this event, eventually being jailed for fighting.
DANIELLA: Ho...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Playwright’s Biography
- Writer’s Notes
- First Production
- Characters
- Eyes to the Floor
- Copyright Page