Intersection

ATYP

• Publisher: Currency Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781760620950
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Teatro

It's formal night and Jerry stands on a hill, high heels in hand. A young woman heads to a party dressed as a blueberry. Stuart plays at the arcade to win a slime-green lava lamp instead of concentrating on the problem at hand. What connects them is not time, it's place.Intricately drawn by Australia's leading young writers, Intersection is a collection of short stories playing out across the same town, creating a glorious map of the connections we form and the experiences we have when we're seventeen.Each year ATYP (Australian Theatre for Young People) brings together 20 young writers from across the country, and challenges them to create stories that speak to the experience of being a young person in Australia, here and now. Expanding on the popular Voices Project, Intersection features heartbreaking, funny and powerful interactions between characters coupled with complex and beautiful monologues to create a compelling snapshot of life at seventeen.

Intersection was first produced by the Australian Theatre for Young People at Studio 1, The Wharf, Sydney, on 1 February 2017, with the following cast:

Little Differences
CLAUDIA	Rebecca Gulia
DOM	Elliot Falzon
The Track and the Church
PARKER	Jackson Williams
JOSHY	Hudson Musty
Yield
CHARLIE	Alex Chalwell
WILL	Darius Williams
Pray 4 Mojo
ACHILLES	Adam Stepfner
PATROCLUS	Kurt Pimblett
Blueberry Girl Grows Up
BLUEBERRY GIRL	Esther Randles
The Arcade
KAROLINA	Ingrid Leighton
STUART	Steffan Lazarevic
Dive
JERRY	Iris Simpson
BILL	Alex Chorley
Palaces of Montezuma
NADINE	Sonia Elliott
HARPER	Tamara Bailey
HASSAN	Ilai Swindells
Cassie and Saoirse
CASSIE	Monica Kumar
SAOIRSE	Asha Boswarva
Bottlefeeders
SARAH	May Tran

Little Differences
Jordan Shea

A playground. DOM is listening to ‘Uptown Funk’ full blast. He’s dancing. And I mean dancing. CLAUDIA enters.

CLAUDIA: Hey!

DOM continues to dance. Ignoring her.

Oi!

CLAUDIA goes over to DOM, rips his headphones out of his ears.

DOM: What the fuck!?

CLAUDIA: You listening to some extremist bullshit or something?

DOM: What the fuck did you say?

CLAUDIA: Calm down dickhead.

DOM: You come here to hang out or what?

CLAUDIA: You need to come to class.

DOM: It’s geography. I don’t need it. I know where things are. It’s only if someone comes up to me, puts a gun to my head and asks me for the longitude and latitude of a country, I’m fucked.

Pause.

I used to do this all the time anyway. At my old school.

CLAUDIA: Before you got kicked out?

DOM: We moved. Wasn’t my choice. We moved. I didn’t get kicked out. Who the fu—

CLAUDIA: Why you gotta be so aggro? You fuckin’ shrug people off like that, people don’t want anything to do with you. Any of you, and—

DOM: Any of us?

CLAUDIA: You know what I mean. Drop your act, thinking you’re fucking king shit—

DOM: Aren’t you meant to be my buddy?

CLAUDIA: It’s not a big deal if I quit. Someone else can do it.

DOM: They chose you. For a reason.

CLAUDIA: Because I’ve been a shit lately. A lot. Then they give me something to do. I don’t fucking get it. I sent out a couple of text messages to some bitch. She started it though. Got this rumour going that I slept with her boyfriend. She got a couple of after school detentions, I got stuck with you.

DOM: You think I started those fights don’t you?

CLAUDIA: Not what I said. But you being angry doesn’t really make a good name for yourself does it?

DOM: Nah, nor for all those idiots that started punching on the beach hey? Because I’m mates with them. Cousins, or whatever it is you think.

CLAUDIA goes to exit.

I know your brother started one of the fights.

CLAUDIA: He was off his face. His mates made him do it, a...