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A series of mini-dramas based on public conversations, as overheard and rewritten by local playwright/director Aurora Stewart de Peña.

Overheard in the washroom of Filmore’s Gentlemen’s Club

The washroom is full of women in underwear and stilettos, they fix make-up, talk, spray hair, and laugh. 

Leila, dressed in lime green underwear and very high heels, takes a blackberry out of her purse. She steps away from the other women.

Leila: Hi, oh–Hi, I didn’t actually expect you to pick up.

Yeah, it’s just me.

How are you? 

Good.

Yeah?

He is?

Leila laughs.

Finally, right?

How many did it take?

How many times did you have to read “Hop on Pop?”

Pause.

Listen, it’s actually raining pretty hard, so not a lot of people are coming in.

Pause.

A hundred dollars.

Yeah, that’s it.

I don’t know, I should have known. This always happens when it rains.

Pause.

So we’re gonna have to figure something out for rent.

I’m sorry; I was really counting on tonight.

Pause.

I’m sorry.

Leila rubs the bridge of her nose.

I know, I know you will.

Thank you.

I love you, too.

Okay, bye.

She clicks a button on her phone, puts it back in her purse. She walks to the mirror, smoothes a stray hair, pulls her shoulders back, tilts her chin up.  She goes back out on the floor.

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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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