Name: WATERMARK
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WATERMARK

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Watermark is a chronicle of both the physical and psychological devastation of flood in the Northern Territory town of Katherine on January 26, 1998. Based on written and oral testimony from flood survivors, the play evokes the power and torment of flood damage in a small town - the tensions and grief, the friendships and kindnesses, the fears and losses. Held together by a beautiful poetic narration that personifies the river as it swells and swamps, Watermark was originally performed in Katherine on the 10th Anniversary of the emergency. Watermark takes the audience on an immersive experience, so that we can almost smell the mud and see the struggling, drowning wildlife in the swollen Katherine River. Uplifting, moving and very funny, Watermark is a testament to both the fragility and endurance of community in times of hardship. Winner of the AWGIE for Best Community Play in 2009, Watermark is being revived at the Katherine Festival and Darwin Festival in August 2010.

Form/Style: poetic drama
Length in minutes: 80
Cast: 8 total
Roles: 4 female identifying, 4 male identifying
Themes: young people
Cast age groups: 3 to 8, 8 to 12, 12 to 16, 16 to 18, 18+
Audience age: all ages, children, teen
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

MONOLOGUES
PRODUCTION HISTORY

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Narrator

Gender Unspecified | Unspecified | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 4

EXTRACT: as the creek becomes a stream/ there is no force in it still/ It has no bulk or weight/ and merely/ leaves the smear of its wet stomach/ on everything it touches/ sometimes pooling or eddying/ its excesses/ in holes/ that puddle up/ and then join in the evenness/ that becomes a/ trail of flowing/ all in one direction/ a joining and touching of/ raindrops/ the many becoming a mass/ the hours pass/ the rain falls and falls and/ the wet has begun/

Gia

Female | Unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 53

EXTRACT: I have this fantasy about the insurance guy. Yeah. But wait for it. Yeah, because it's maybe a bit different from what you think I mean when I say fantasy. See, because we were insured for water coming from the creek and not the river and when you looked at our house you could see the branches all pushed one way, which was from the creek but when the insurance guy came and looked at it he said that there was no way of proving that it wasn't from the river and so we weren't insured. Yeah.

Phoebe

Female | Unspecified | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 23

EXTRACT: We'll laugh./He'll have stories to tell./ I should have made him come with me./ I should have insisted./ I should have said I wouldn't leave without him./ I'll never do this again./I'll never let us be separated again./I never will./ I don't care./ I don't care how hard it gets I won't be separated./ The not knowing is the worst./The not knowing. Breathe./He'll be OK.He'll be OK. Oh God let him be OK. Please God let him be alright.

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