Name: BOY SLAUGHTER
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BOY SLAUGHTER

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"In our family there's just Dad and me... and the meat—rump, loins, chops—red, rich meat, the bloodier the better. Dad was always saying I had to be tough like meat, can't be a sissy. He was always comparing me to it. If Mum had given birth to a rump steak 21 years ago, instead of me, I reckon Dad would be the happiest man alive."

Jimmy is an artist. His dad, Brute, is a butcher with short, stubby unartistic fingers. In Boy Slaughter Jimmy relives growing up in a small town with big characters—and his desperate escape from it all.

Form/Style: black comedy/drama
Length in minutes: 40
Cast: 4 total
Roles: 2 female identifying, 2 male identifying
Themes: adolescence
Cast age groups: 16 to 18, 18+
Audience age: young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Jimmy

Male | 20s | under 3 minutes
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EXTRACT: In our family there's just Dad and me.. There's just Dad and me... and the meat...Rump,loins, chops...red, rich meat, the bloodier the better. Dad was always saying I had to be tough like meat, can't be a sissy. He was always comparing me to it. If mum had given birth to a rump steak twenty-one years ago, instead of me, I reckon Dad would be the happiest man alive.

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