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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 on Blue Jays Way
Tom, 24, is wearing a plaid shirt, tight-ish jeans and Converse. He’s walking down Peter Street toward the Skydome.
Tom: (With an iPhone 5 pressed against his cheek) Ha, ha! Yeah.
No, no.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, no, listen.
Listen.
No, we’ll make some serious coin.
Yeah, serious coin.
Yeah, just double the price.
No, no, no, you don’t tell people they’re in the 500s. They can find that out after they give us the money.
Tom laughs in a series of pronounced “Ha” sounds.
Run really fast in the other direction?
I don’t care, we have their money, that’s all I fucking care about.
Yeah, we’ll just stand right outside the dome and do it. Right outside where you go in. People are gonna buy from us before they buy from scalpers.
Because we look more honest.
No.
No.
They will, bro, trust me, they will.
Trust–
Trust me, they will.
Okay, I’ll see you there.
Okay.
Kay.
Bye.
Tom wipes the face of his phone on his shirt. He puts it in his pocket.
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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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