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PAPER DOLL

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A man stands at a woman’s front door, soaking wet and unexpected. She isn’t surprised. He is older. She has grown-up, but he is not ready to admit that she’s no longer the girl, the princess, he left behind. He needs somewhere to stay and she is all he’s got.

Written in response to Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, Paper Doll is gripping, unmissable theatre that will leave audiences breathless.

  • drama
  • 45
  • 2 total
  • 1 female identifying, 1 male identifying
  • women
  • 18+
  • adult
  • Australian Script Centre


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HIM

Male | 50s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 8

EXTRACT: If it wasn’t raining I thought, um, I had this, this idea that we could go to the zoo. And you can have popcorn. We always – and, you know, we, um, we haven’t done that for ages. The zoo. Yeah, there was this time. You were maybe eight or maybe younger, maybe, I can’t ...[remember] – and - and you were going through your pink stage, all pink head to toe – even a wearing a, um, a tutu. A pink fucking tutu.

Adult language

HER

Female | 30s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 24

EXTRACT: There was this huge black moth on the ceiling and it was bashing its body against the lights over and over and over. I just lay there staring at it, staring at this moth and the nurse is saying something, you know, but her voice is far away and I can’t look at her, I don’t wanna look at her, I just keep watching that moth. That stupid fucking moth.

Adult language

TRAILER

Playwright: Katy Warner Director: Lucy Clements Starring: Lucy Goleby & Martin Ashley Jones Sound Designer: Clemmie Williams Stage Management: Lachlan McNab Trailer Director/Producer: Lauren Jessie Jones Trailer Cinematographer: Jacob Hanrahan Produced by Red Line Productions

REVIEW

ARTSHUB REVIEW, LYNNE LANCASTER, 13 NOVEMBER 2017

"...thought provoking and disturbing..."

REVIEW

PELICAN MAGAZINE, STIRLING KAIN, 14 FEBRUARY 2019.

an unpretentious insight into a twisted, emotionally turbulent and unfathomably complex relationship, gravitating around abuse, trauma and pain.

REVIEW

THE BUZZ FROM SYDNEY, JOY MINTER, 15 NOVEMBER, 2019

"...Katy Warner’s writing takes a troubling but brilliant trip down memory lane..."

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SYDNEY ARTS GUIDE, JUDITH GREENAWAY, 8 NOV 2018.

"...PAPER DOLL is next level thinking, this is advanced citizenship. This is required theatre-going..."

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