Foxy’s Hangout Play # 8 by Kate Herbert, May 2020

 

Covid19 Iso Project

 This is an audio reading of Foxy’s Hangout Play # 8  in the Cycle of 8 X 10. This reading is done unrehearsed by me, solo, playing all characters, unedited and reading stage directions. This is my Covid19 Iso project - or part of it. Enjoy! More to come with me doing all characters or with another performer.

DAZ rides his quadbike on a bush track and is confronted by MITCH the farmer who is more dangerous than he seems.

CHARACTERS:  2 MALE

DAZ: 20ish, Unemployed. Rough, petty criminal. Obsessed with quad-bikes.

MITCH: AKA “Foxy”. 40ish. Struggling farmer. Carries shotgun. Has a Blue Healer. Broad Australian accent. 

 

SETTING: Bushland track on MITCH’s land. Quad-bike represented by boxes.

  Extract from Foxy’s Hangout is earlier in this blog.

8 X 10 - A cycle of 8 plays approx 10 minutes each

Play # 1 Baggage
Play # 2 Phone Calls on a Train
Play # 3 Social ME-dia
Play # 4 Lover Boy!
Play # 5 The House That Alex Built
Play # 6 DB and Scruff
Play # 7 Thievin’ Thugs
Play # 8 Foxy’s Hangout

 

The 8 plays are connected not by a narrative thread, but by themes and characters. A character that is only mentioned in a play then appears in the following play until we get to Play # 8, when a character is mentioned who appeared in Play # 1.

 

As I wrote the plays, I realised that each dealt with a different social issue: bullying, perceptions of disability, street violence etc. I then noticed that each play had characters using mobile phones and that phone technology had become a character!

 

Cast

Baggage – 1 Woman, 1 Man

Take My Phone -Please! – 3 Women, 2 Men

Social ME-dia – 1 Woman, 1 Teenage Girl

Lover Boy! – 1 Woman, 1 Teenage Boy

The House That Alex Built– – 1 Man, 1 Woman

DB & Scruff – 1 Man, 1 Woman

Thievin’ Thugs – 2 Men (2 off-stage voice)

Foxy’s Hangout ­ – 2 Men