PUSSY BOY

by Christine Evans

Pussy Boy is a blackly comic urban fable, set under a freeway overpass. Bill is teaching young son Algy to "hammer straight and think useful". But when Bill evicts their bag-lady tenant, the Dog Lady, and the police remove her 14 dogs, Algy runs away. Bill hunts for his son; when he finds him hiding with the Dog Lady, a deadly choice is forced on Algy. A singing police chorus duo write an endless Report but are distracted by lust and the moon; they appear as unreliable angels to the dreamy Algy, trapped between Bill's violent world and the animal comfort of the Dog world.

Style	Magic realist tragicomedy
Length	75 minutes
Cast	2 female, 3 male
Cast age	16 to 18, 18+
Audience age	young adult, adult
Publisher	Australian Script Centre