Synopsis

Christine comes home already full of alcohol on Friday night, desperate for a hit or two of her buzz of choice to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Amy is at home preparing for a night out on the town with her boyfriend, Tyrone. Amy enjoys living in Christine’s penthouse apartment for the opulence and the postcode.

Refused sexual favours and joining in of Christine’s self-imposed birthday party weekend celebration by Amy and her boyfriend, Christine settles in for the night by ordering a home delivered five-star meal and home delivery of wine. Bored, she unsuccessfully telephones her fair-weather friends; none of them answer. She eventually ditches the food idea and calls Toy Boys Escort Agency for a few hours with a Prostitute (Oscar).

Shane arrives with Christine’s delivery of a dozen bottles of red wine. Confusing him for Oscar, she attempts to seduce him with her sexual favours and wads of cash, but quickly tires of him when he refuses to play along. Eventually, he is allowed to leave the apartment.

After ingesting her buzz of choice, Christine’s persona dramatically changes, becoming vindictive and nasty. Throughout her buzz binge she discloses moments of physical abuse by her father, emotional abuse by her mother and the witnessed accounts of her brother’s sexual encounters, on their family run cattle farm at Milking Yard Creek in the Northern Territory.

Oscar arrives to make a quick buck and service his client well, only to find out Christine has another agenda; keeping him for the night by enticing him with wads of cash. Oscar encourages Christine to enjoy the job he was sent to do; when Oscar touches Christine, she violently lashes out at him. ...more

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This two act play is set in current day Australia, with current day values, accents and personalities.