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When Boy is caught on camera saying something despicable, he goes into hiding with only an adolescent food delivery cyclist for company. But when the very person who released the footage (Girl) offers him an opportunity to take ownership and move forward, he must overcome his own foolishness to reclaim his life.

Form/Style: comedy, naturalism/realism
Length in minutes: 120
Cast: 3 total
Roles: 1 female identifying, 2 male identifying
Themes: masculinity, justice, friendship
Cast age groups: 12 to 16, 16 to 18, 18+
Content warnings: racially charged language, queerphobic language, misogynist language, ableist language
Has interval: yes
Audience age: teen, young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Plays Transform

MONOLOGUES
PRODUCTION HISTORY

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GIRL

Female | Adult | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 29

EXTRACT: Look. I report what I see. Not what you say but what I see. And so if you cannot trust me, if you can’t tell me the truth, if you cannot conceive that I might have slightly more intelligence than a coffee bean and somehow won’t see through this little, what to even call it, this poor me, hard-knock-life, Annie the orphan tap routine, then that will be the story that gets written and that will be the story that gets read. And I won’t apologise for that.

Adult language

GIRL

Female | Adult | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 70

EXTRACT: Why I filmed you!? You want to know why I filmed you!? Fine! Google my name. Have you Googled my name? Google my life. Google me. Why did I film you with your eyes closed? You want to make this about why I filmed you with your eyes closed? Did it ever occur to you that maybe you weren’t the only one “inconvenienced” by all this?

Bullying, Misogynist language, Sexist language

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