Name: BOXMAN
SKU: ASC-1443
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BOXMAN

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"Home owner" and survivor Ringo is a former child soldier, a character who has "lived many lives". Displaced from his African homeland and instilled in his new one, a temporary shelter in downtown Footscray, he is a refugee from horrors he has been forced to perpetrate.

"One morning I woke up and everything I knew was gone. One morning I woke up and I didn’t have a name."

"Through rhythm and repetition, Keene’s script constructs what appears at times to be clowning, but is in fact a mirage above an emotional wasteland – a dissociative fugue, hovering over the kind of grief that can suck the air out of a room." - Cameron Woodhead, The Age

Form/Style: monologue
Length in minutes: 50
Cast: 1 total
Roles: 1 male identifying
Themes: history, culturally and linguistically diverse
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Ringo

Male | 30s | over 10 minutes
Starts on page 3

EXTRACT: Here are my hands, here are my eyes. This is me. I've lived so many lives that sometimes I don't know who I am. Can you tell me who I am? We're strangers, the three of us, me and you and me. That's not a bad way to start. No expectations. All we can ask of each other is the kind of courtesy you show to a stranger. We could get to know one another, one little step at a time. Beginnings are always difficult.