Three Scenes on Domestic Violence in a Small Community

'IN A POSITION OF POWER'
Scene1:
A dual kitchen-dining room. The room is sparsely furnished with stained, threadbare and broken furniture; an old, greasy gas stove and chipped cupboards form the kitchen and the dining room consists of a low table and a few broken and mismatched chairs. The house has a few bright touches, photographs or paintings, but they are hanging crookedly from the walls and the rest of the house is a muted, dusty brown or grey.
There is a young woman, Jules, standing by the stove. Offstage you can hear a door slam. Jules gasps, bumps the saucepan she has been stirring onto the floor and starts to cry. She bends down, visibly shaken, to see if some of the meal can be salvaged. Another door slams and Jules stands up, backs away from the stove and trying to support herself, leans on the table.
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