Rhonda's Monologue
from Who's Afraid of the Working Class
Written by Christos Tsiolkas, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, rew Bovell
Rhonda, a working-class mother, reflects on her life and fertility before recounting the devastating moment she learned her children died in a fire while seeking shelter in a charity bin.
RHONDA: So I go down to the station and they know me there. And I say, "Where are they? I want to see my kids." "You can't see them," and I look at him and I say, "I'm their mother and I can see them whenever I bloody well like." And then he says it. Just a couple of words, he says it: "There's been
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