Background Setting
What is the working class suburb the Bianchi's live in?
Collingwood
He drinks to excess once a year
Donny Pratt
The patriarch
Poppa Bianchi
It can keep you in or out
the fences
I don't buy trouble, Clarry ... I got as much right to be there as the next man
Gino to Clarry when they argue over whether Gino should have given up his place in the queue
The post-war decade in which the play is set
1950s
Can't wait his turn the line
Barry, the old Aussie Gino offends
The matriarch
Momma Bianchi
it symbolises celebration, loosens tongues and starts fights
ALCOHOL - beer - grog - wine
For eight years I see him go from us to the other side: and I'm frightened ..........
Maria
The police headquarters
Russell St
A racist masquerading as a comedian
Mr Wilson
The protagonist
Gino Bianchi
What is the famous Italian folk-song Poppa plays on the harmonica
Santa Lucia
yeah, to (he steadies) Gino.
Clarry Fowler - the final symbolic gesture
The global event that shaped the Bianchi's lives
World War Two
Asks the hard questions
Detective Sargeant Lukie
The shifting heart
Clarry Fowler
It's lit
the candle lit Christmas tree
'like an illumined Crucifix'
What might this stage direction suggest?
'Taking a handful of earth he sprinkles the patch with something approaching gentleness'
Clarry's shifting heart
What is the town in Italy that the Bianchi's lived in
Lerici
Never seen but always felt
Neighbour at stage right
The open-minded
Leila Pratt
Mario Lanza
Italian Opera star
THE SAME AS US!
Clarry realises there is no fundamental difference