Aboriginal Culture Script

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Tanushri Gukhool

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GCSE Drama (1699) Paper 1, Unit 1

Portfolio Task 1 (AO1) – Evaluation

Performance outline: 

A young, mixed race girl gives birth to a fairly dark skinned baby. Having been taken from her biological mother at birth, and adopted into a white family at a very young age, she is unaware of her Aboriginal heritage. We are shown the horrible way in which her mother conceived her and what lengths her surrogate mother will go to, in order to hide the truth.

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(The baby pushed through. You hear screams from the mother as she pushes the baby out)

Midwife 1&2: (Together) Ok push, that’s it nearly there, keep going……and relax….all over now.

(Baby cries. Midwife 3 goes off to get the baby)

Mother: (talking to father. Sighs, looking tired) I can’t do this again. No more…no more kids, ever.

Father: Ok…ok don’t worry about that just now.

Midwife 3: Here ma’am, you have a wonderful baby girl. 

Mother: Aww… (Pause - looking at baby’s skin colour)...I think there’s been a mix up, this baby isn’t mine.

Midwife ...

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