Cirrus@Austlit

'On the eighth of April at five seventeen pm, an incident of racial abuse occurs on a bus. Mobile phone footage of the abuse is uploaded on to social media at five thirty pm, by six o’clock the incident goes viral. The hunger for blame above resolution dominates the debate.

'The perpetrator, the victim, the bystander and the person filming are thrown into a media storm.

'Their actions and inactions judged.
Their privacy gone.
Their family harassed.
Their perception of the truth challenged.
Their ethics commodified.
Their safety threatened.

'Behind the eight-seconds of footage exists four personal lives that are forever altered. These Are Not My People questions the fine line between revenge and justice when it comes to social media shaming.'

Source: australianplays.org

'What do you do when a loved one changes beyond recognition? When the rational world is taken away from you? A journey into one young man's mind, to the place where borders are shifting and battle lines are drawn. This play looks at our very selfhood and how we survive when it is taken away.'

Source: Australian Script Centre website, http://www.ozscript.org/
Sighted: 19/05/2009