Mum Cook Monologue
Monologue of Dot ‘Mum’ Cook
(Sky is dark outside on the morning of ANZAC Day. Mum in the kitchen making a cup of tea and baking a cake before Alf wakes up for the dawn service. Bowls and other cooking utensils used for baking cakes are scattered around the kitchen in front of her along with a mug of tea and a kettle.)
Hughie, he’s my son too you know, but Alf… Alf can go on being the proud father who is always right, but I see it. I see Hughie and how he is now. He’s got different views to us nowadays, especially about today, ANZAC Day. Me and Hughie (pause), we’ve never bin close, no matter how much that killed me inside. I knew that what Hughie and Alf had – their father and son bond – was special for both of them. But now (pauses and walks …show more content…
After losing his own father in the first one, he had the greatest respect for all the men who fought and especially Wacka. He looked up to them. For Alf, being in the war meant he lost what future he could’ve had, what he wants Hughie to have, but he gained something that he values more than anything. Being a proud (impersonates Alf) ‘bloody Australian’ as he would put it, fighting in the war and having that one day when the small heroes that kept this country true blue are celebrated. It means the world to him. And for Hughie to not go, I don’t want to think about when he gets home tonight, drunk off his …show more content…
No matter how much we teach him it won’t be the same for him. And I don’t know if that is better or worse. All I know is that it is causing a rift in our family. There’s no way Hughie wants to go to the Dawn Service. (Pacing and getting worked up) But I can’t tell Alf; he’ll blame me for meddling. But if I’m right Hughie is going to have to suffer the aftermath all by himself. A young man needs to know how to deal with these situations. But I’m his mother. I can’t just sit back and watch. (pours a cup of tea and takes a sip) I will tell Alf, but this is Hughie’s battle to fight not mine. I know what’s happening and Alf needs to open his eyes because this kid is changing and he needs to accept
(Sky is dark outside on the morning of ANZAC Day. Mum in the kitchen making a cup of tea and baking a cake before Alf wakes up for the dawn service. Bowls and other cooking utensils used for baking cakes are scattered around the kitchen in front of her along with a mug of tea and a kettle.)
Hughie, he’s my son too you know, but Alf… Alf can go on being the proud father who is always right, but I see it. I see Hughie and how he is now. He’s got different views to us nowadays, especially about today, ANZAC Day. Me and Hughie (pause), we’ve never bin close, no matter how much that killed me inside. I knew that what Hughie and Alf had – their father and son bond – was special for both of them. But now (pauses and walks …show more content…
After losing his own father in the first one, he had the greatest respect for all the men who fought and especially Wacka. He looked up to them. For Alf, being in the war meant he lost what future he could’ve had, what he wants Hughie to have, but he gained something that he values more than anything. Being a proud (impersonates Alf) ‘bloody Australian’ as he would put it, fighting in the war and having that one day when the small heroes that kept this country true blue are celebrated. It means the world to him. And for Hughie to not go, I don’t want to think about when he gets home tonight, drunk off his …show more content…
No matter how much we teach him it won’t be the same for him. And I don’t know if that is better or worse. All I know is that it is causing a rift in our family. There’s no way Hughie wants to go to the Dawn Service. (Pacing and getting worked up) But I can’t tell Alf; he’ll blame me for meddling. But if I’m right Hughie is going to have to suffer the aftermath all by himself. A young man needs to know how to deal with these situations. But I’m his mother. I can’t just sit back and watch. (pours a cup of tea and takes a sip) I will tell Alf, but this is Hughie’s battle to fight not mine. I know what’s happening and Alf needs to open his eyes because this kid is changing and he needs to accept