Name: KAFKA'S BREATH
SKU: ASC-1374
Price: 5.40 AUD
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KAFKA’S BREATH

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A piece written for marionettes.

A dreamscape; a bed; a room; the smell of lilacs; are these observations, memories or delirium?

Form/Style: lyrical prose
Length in minutes: 30
Cast: 1 total
Roles: 1 female identifying
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: teen, young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Female | Unspecified | over 10 minutes
Starts on page 3

EXTRACT: When the final journey beckons, who is able to say no? When the heart and the soul beg to be absent, who can refuse them? When everyone near to you seems to stand suddenly apart, when longing is longing no more but only grief too long postponed, who can say no to the last farewell expected of you?/ You are gone before you have the chance to lift your hand in farewell. The carriage door is closed, your suitcase put away.

A NOTE ON SHORT PLAYS

DANIEL KEENE

"For me, short plays permit a kind of intimacy that is more difficult to achieve or sustain in longer plays. This intimacy is possible for both the creators of the work and its audience. By intimacy I mean a particular knowledge, a unique emotional possibility." - Daniel Keene

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