A series of mini-dramas based on public conversations, as overheard and rewritten by local playwright/director Aurora Stewart de Peña.
Overheard at an Ad Agency at Portland and Wellington
Katie, Sara and Brittany, all in their early 30’s, all with smooth hair and carefully selected loose blouses, stand drinking coffee from mugs with the ad agency’s branding printed on them.
Sara: You’re kidding!
Katie: No, it’s for real.
It’s called “Bang with friends,” and you enter who you would bang, and then if they enter you, you both get a notification.
Enter Sven, also in his early 30’s, neatly dressed in a sweater and jeans.
Sven: What are you talking about?
Katie: It’s an app called “Bang with Friends,” and if you get it you can enter your Facebook friends that you’re attracted to, and if they’re attracted to you, you both get a notification.
Sara: And then you can bang.
Brittany: With your friends.
Sven looks at the three women. The three women look at Sven.
Katie: But, like, there are some flaws.
Sven: Hm.
Katie: Like two women can’t enter each other, or two men.
Sara: That’s a pretty big over sight.
Katie: Yeah, it’s kind of a slight to the LGBTQ community.
Sara: Yeah, they should get to be as slutty as the rest of us.
Sven: The what community?
Katie: LGBTQ.
Katie, Sara and Brittany: (Together, haltingly) Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer.
Katie: Community.
Sven looks at them, blinking.
Katie: People with the same bits, making it happen.
Sara: Or new bits they didn’t have before–
Katie: Making it happen. Sexually.
Brittany: Or just going to work and eating a sandwich at lunch.
Sara: But being secretly attracted to people.
Katie: Wanting to bang their friends.
I’m going to start a new Bang with Friends that’s for everybody.
Brittany: You’re a forward thinker.
Katie: I’m a present thinker.
Sara: True dat.
Katie: Don’t say “True dat.”
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Aurora Stewart de Peña is half of the theatre company Birdtown & Swanville (the other half is Nika Mistruzzi). You can follow her on Twitter at @Aurorahhh.
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