We study the (relative)
S
L
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2
,
C
)
\mathrm {SL}(2,\mathbb {C})
character variety of the three-holed projective plane and the action of the mapping class group on it. We describe a domain of discontinuity for this action, which strictly contains the set of primitive stable representations defined by Minsky, and also the set of convex-cocompact characters.