Name: THE PROMISE
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THE PROMISE

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The Promise is a musical drama with a full existing score by Dalmazio Babare.

Vikala's husband died three years ago and for three years she has remained pregnant. Faced with the choice of spiritual and physical death if she will not confront her fears or the promise of life if she will, Vikala embarks on a journey into the anarchic and contradictory world of her psyche, accompanied by the ever-watching Nightbird.

Form/Style: musical drama
Length in minutes: 120
Cast: 10 total
Roles: 6 female identifying, 4 male identifying
Themes: people of colour, women
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Vikala

Female | 20s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 16

EXTRACT: When I awoke my fever and husband were gone but my belly had grown three times its size. For the child's sake I betrayed no tears and spoke no word of grief/ My husband had carried me when I could not walk, he wooed me when I was sure I couldn't be loved- And in death he gave me a child - I have come in search of them both.

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