Name: FISH WEDNESDAY
SKU: ASC-1215
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FISH WEDNESDAY

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Tass is in his late 30s and still lives with his widowed mother after the death of his childhood sweetheart. On the fourth anniversary of his wife’s death he meets Ellen and starts to wrestle with his guilt and with the necessity to move forward. His mother, Lily, herself emotionally stunted after the death of her errant husband eleven years ago takes matters in her own hands and plots to push her only son towards self-acceptance and a new love.

Form/Style: naturalistic drama
Length in minutes: 90
Cast: 3 total
Roles: 2 female identifying, 1 male identifying
Themes: culturally and linguistically diverse
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: adult, all ages, children
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

MONOLOGUES
PRODUCTION HISTORY

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Lily

Female | 60+ | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 24

EXTRACT: I waited last night. Fish on Wednesday. Kept thinking "He's all right/ Lily. He's all right. He's all right. He starting to live."/Ah this head of mine./ Some days no one comes and I find myself talking aloud. It's then I/ know I'm alone. Me, who was going to be a hospital sister,/ surrounded by people. Look at me now./ I'm not complaining, not really. I like sitting here. The birds make you/ feel wanted. The water down there.../ But I watched the clock change hours, saw the hands actually move./ They didn't come. That bloody hospital.

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