Category: Relationships

  • Cuck’d: a play

    Football Field bleachers. (Victor doing what looks like an Indian rain dance – he is beside himself with glee. Enter Emily) EmilyWhat are you so happy about? VictorI’m the man!I’m the king! (Emily stares at him sardonically, arms akimbo) EmilySo, spill –Found somebody’sCredit card under the bleachers? VictorNO.I’m an UnstoppableForce –I’m a MOVER.I’m the One!Others…

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  • Cuck’d: a play

    Victor works Emily, his off-again, on-again girlfriend (Oscar stalks offstage. Victor minces behind him, Rocky vaults over bleachers) RockyYou’re off course, Victor!Throwin’ shade on Darla! VictorHey, bro we discussed this!You want to fend off intrudersOr hug them hello?Martial arts saysUse their own weight AGAINST THEMLet them knockTHEMSELVES down.Achilles had a heel, my RockyYou should know…

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  • Cuck’d: a play

    Rocky watches Victor work Oscar (Enter Oscar, big handsome Hispanic guy in football uniform) Victor (grabs Oscar’s hand, chest bumps) Guess the best man won!Congratulations are in order! OscarHey, wow!You’re a big fellow.I mean no disrespect – (flustered because Victor’s NOT a “big fellow”) No one likes gettin’ cut. You sure there’sNo hard feelings? VictorWon’t…

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  • Cuck’d: a play

    Othello in an American High School Place : An American high school Time: Now Characters Victor: handsome, short, manipulative teen male Oscar: immigrant male teen, dark, tall, handsome, recently recruited to this new high school for his athletic gifts, trying to figure out this new world and his place within it Emily: Victor’s girlfriend, Darla’s…

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  • Caving: a comedy

    The End! (SCENE 8. Lights up on our sleeping couple. BO and VAYRE emerge from the other side of the stage.) BOThere they are!(HEDJ sits up but does not rise) HEDJFinally! BOYeah, I see how hard you were looking for us! HEDJBuddy, I got swept away by a RIVER of SLIME! What’s your excuse? REV(Opening…

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  • Caving: a comedy

    (SCENE 7: Lights out on them and up on BO who has made it to the stage where he finds the rope tied to a rock.) BOVayre? Vayre? Oh, my God, Wendy where are you? (He falls backwards. She appears around the rock adjusting her pants.) VAYRENo need to shriek like a little girl. BOYou…

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  • Caving: a comedy

    SCENE 5: Bo Tries to reach over an audience member – pulls 3 times on his rope – whose end disappears into darkness.) BO(To audience member)Work with me here. You got anything? I have to take her SOMETHING. (Audience members confer. The hand him a program. Putting it in his mouth like a dog BO…

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  • Caving: a comedy

    SCENE 4: (Lights down on this couple and up on Back of Stage where HEDJ is splashing in a stream) HEDJHelp! Help! Help! (REV appears, tries to lasso him) REVStop struggling! HEDJStop struggling and DROWN? That’s all you’ve got to say? Lift up your arms! (Finally gets the rope over him, hauls him out. He…

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  • Caving: a comedy

    (SCENE 3: VAYRE appears crawling down the stage into the audience. Shines her light) VAYREWhat was that? Anybody there? Rev? This isn’t funny, whoever you are! I’m warning you, I have a knife! (Silence) I’m armed and I’m desperate! (Satisfied, she crawls to the first row, up and over the audience’s laps. At their reaction…

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  • Caving: a comedy

    (SCENE 2: Meanwhile the boys, HEDJ and BO are crawling down the center aisle shining their flashlights up into the audience) HEDJ(Halts, attentive)Omigod, I think I just saw something. I swear I heard somebody breathe. BOThere’s no room in this tunnel for anyone but US. Bacteria and bugs on the other hand – probably PLENTY…

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