As Natural as Breathing: Judy Dosh, #2

By David Grant

A short one act play. This is a play within a play which takes a humorous look at a society where nudity is accepted except for the nose. The nose has become the new genitals. People wear nose bags to hide their noses from the public. We take a look at group of actors on stage who are totally nude except for their nose bags. The conversations between these actors take a  look at our own obsession of hiding the genitals and, in the case of women, nipples.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Grant
• Release date: Sep 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386236580

David Grant

David Grant. A biographical history of how I came to writing. I am a visual artist. Bodies on the Line is a visual art project which I started over 10 years ago. It was featured in FRINGE WORLD in 2015 and 2017. The project featured charcoal drawings of everyday people in Perth. While posing, models often discussed and talked about just about anything that came into their mind. This included religion, politics, philosophy and especially life and the people of Perth. These thoughts were written on the actual paintings by the model and also in notebooks. The notebooks were later made into printed copies. It soon became clear to me that life in Perth had its own flavour. Relationships seemed to be very problematic. Taking this source of material I decided to write a novel on Perth life. This is where the Judy Dosh series began. It features the lives of a group of imaginary people and their struggles to get on with life and each other.

Book preview

A One Act Play by David Grant

From the Novel:

Judy Dosh Saves the World!

The stage is in darkness except for a soft light revealing eight chairs placed in two rows of four on the apron of the stage, stage right.

The light reveals eight people sitting as part of an audience. They face centre stage. In the middle of the front row sit Father Ed and Judy. They talk to each other quietly, and then drift into thoughtful silence Father Ed is wearing a disguise consisting mainly of a fake Merv Hughes style moustache. A spotlight picks him out and he stands and walks to the front of the apron.

Father Ed:

"Some of you are probably wondering what I’m doing here in disguise. Well     actually it was Judy’s idea but I’ll tell you how it came about. You see I am     still a Catholic priest with my own congregation some of whom have pretty     set and rigid ideas about nudity. And the play we have come to see tonight     is all about nudity. Now I have got no problem