Name: INTOXICATION
SKU: ASC-1851
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INTOXICATION

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Intimacy is dead, and we’re partying with its corpse.

Intoxication is a post-dramatic patchwork that explores how the intense fear of being alone rules modern society, and how one person’s loneliness is symptomatic of everyone’s problem. It’s a play about the ways in which technological anxiety have seeped so far into the everyday that it now seems strange to not be anxious – a play about a world where questions like “am I being weird if I text this person twice?” and “you liked my profile picture from 2012 – what does that mean?” are the norm, and overthinking reigns supreme.

Form/Style: post-dramatic
Length in minutes: 65
Cast: 4 total
Roles: 2 female identifying, 2 male identifying
Themes: lgbtqia+
Cast age groups: 16 to 18, 18+
Audience age: teen, young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

MONOLOGUES
PRODUCTION HISTORY

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Gender Unspecified | Unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 12

EXTRACT: My cover photo on Facebook reads: â€œI AM NOT AFRAID.â€ I found it on someoneâ€™s Tumblr and uploaded it, feeling particularly courageous at the time. Actually. I made it myself. Itâ€™s the name of a song I really like; but admitting that is distressing. Like nobody can actually just be genuine and honestly like something, that blindly simple. Everything has to have a deeper meaning; as deep as the holes from that earthquake in Tanzania that killed a hundred thousand citizens and levelled the city. Just plain liking things is fucking passÃ©. Iâ€™m afraid of a lot of things.

Adult language, Adult themes

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Gender Unspecified | Unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 29

EXTRACT: One day weâ€™ll wake up and wonder how we thought we could live like this, how we just made it work for so long. Like, this morning: I woke up and checked Facebook before I even realised what was going on. My eyes were still blurry and sleep-encrusted but my fingers knew exactly what to do; were making their way there before I could consider stopping themâ€¦ and I didnâ€™t.

Adult language, Adult themes

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