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SONGS ABOUT GIRLS & THEIR FINGERTIPS
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“The trouble comes when people start holding their breath.”
Kara goes to the pool to swim, Rach to float. Kara holds every lifesaving certificate, Rach hopes to break her breath-holding record. Kara thought Rach needed saving. Little did Kara know.
Songs is a play with music that anyone who has been in love and seen that love erode can relate to.
At the local pool, out artist Kara meets closeted workaholic Rach and so begins a blossoming love. However the differences that magnetically drew them together eventually become untenable in the face of their insecurities and fears. As Rach’s appetites go unchecked and Kara’s dealt a hand that turns her world upside down, tempers flare and betrayal takes hold. In the aftermath, the stark reality of loss and grief forces each of them to find their own life’s meaning.
- traditional scenes intercut with poetic monologues and choreographed 'compositions' fused with music.
- 65
- 2 total
- 2 female identifying
- lgbtqia+, young people, history, culturally and linguistically diverse
- 18+
- adult
- Australian Script Centre
- MONOLOGUES
- GALLERY
- LINKS & DOWNLOADS
- PRODUCTION HISTORY
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Kara
Female | 30s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 32
EXTRACT: So now living largely in abstinence, til I'm in absentia, I am once again experiencing the intoxicating influence of skin-strokes, sun-circle-dances, bluecrystallites, bubble-breaths and water-wavelets./ In this bottled ocean I decant red wine stroking out the crawl and release champagne as I breath-stroke from beyond my breast./ I am a sea green turtle swathing through copper fringed sea grass towards the reef, at once imbibing my source's breath and distilling its essence.
Rach
Female | 30s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 28
EXTRACT: She was in her backyard pool wearing yellow floaties, swimming on her tummy, her Dad nearby. As he got out the pool shock waves rocked tiny Kara and in her panic she gargled water. There was a polystyrene kickboard close by and she struggled over to grab it but the more she kicked and strived the further it washed away. In striving she pushed her very life support out of reach.
Rach
Female | 30s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 15
EXTRACT: It was unacceptable, to me./ We agreed: no declaration, hand holding, lip locking. She knows not to. In/ public./ We moved in together within a year, shortlisting a dog to rescue, got her a ute:/ She knows my intent. In private./ But this? This was beyond the bargain. / There it was staring at me, raw, in the flesh, stripped bare, unadorned;/ Adoration./ She Adoring Me./ To look, wasn't right, me clothed, make-upped, accessorised.
PROGRAM: SONGS ABOUT GIRLS & THEIR FINGERTIPS
PDF download of the Program for 'Songs About Girls & Their Fingertips' by Michèle Saint-Yves, 2012.
SONGS ABOUT GIRLS & THEIR FINGER TIPS
THE BAREFOOT REVIEW, 2012
"'Songs About Girls & Their Finger Tips' is a clear window into the pleasures, pitfalls, and fragility of developing a relationship. It is gripping theatre and intensely personal... an important Australian one act play."
REVIEW: SONGS ABOUT GIRLS & THEIR FINGERTIPS
BARRY LENNY, GLAM ADELAIDE, 17 NOVEMBER 2012
"Written and Directed by Michele Saint-Yves, the play is a series of short scenes presented in Brechtian style, with music between each scene. Saint-Yves steers the action and emotional journey of the two women with a sure and steady hand."
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