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2024 EAL The Sapphires Note-Taking Document

The document describes a performance scene at a bar where an Aboriginal woman named Gail sings for a crowd that ignores her and talks over her performance. It also describes characters like Cynthia, Julie, and Dave and their interactions. Kay is then taken away and the scene shifts to her apartment where she expresses feelings of worry and embarrassment to her white friend about her family.

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2024 EAL The Sapphires Note-Taking Document

The document describes a performance scene at a bar where an Aboriginal woman named Gail sings for a crowd that ignores her and talks over her performance. It also describes characters like Cynthia, Julie, and Dave and their interactions. Kay is then taken away and the scene shifts to her apartment where she expresses feelings of worry and embarrassment to her white friend about her family.

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Bar Performance Scene

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Character What do theyand
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hate aboriginal,
Gail
‘people’ walk out “don’t listen black” (start singing)

( she doesn’t react to losing the contestant, expected it )

Sing

-Crowd don’t pay attention-> drink, talk, smoke,…


Cynthia
-Crowd boring expression, no one clap ( just a kid ) (after singing)

Respond harshly on the racist pub owner when storming out

Shy at first stage, intimidated by white people

Stops Gail from drinking before she starts singing

Feels embarrassed because no one is watching/ Not happy when Julie shoves her out of the way
Julie of microphone
Walk in to-> start sing (in the middle song)

Dave Comerage,… down town -> racist

Sound good-> play piano for them

Fix, fix, fix, protect the girls,.. the winner wasn’t deserved

Abos (lady owners said)-> racist word of aboriginal

Lady owners: back to “Swags” and “Humpy”


Scene where Kay is taken away

Scene in Kay’s apartment

Character What do they say and do? Based on what they say, what else might they be thinking?

Kay - (at meeting with white friend), you should let me know-> want do u want? Money I can’t ( her
sisters asked her for money before ) ( says at mum’s funeral “ if you worked as much as you
fished, you’d be really rich”) -> have guess -> don’t get lost-> act your age not your colour->

-feeling they so annoying-> expressing : worried, shocked, embarrassed

-her white friend: doesn’t want K’s white friend see them ( because she is ashamed of them)

-Doesn’t her white friends realise that she is aboriginal

Other Characters

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