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| LANDLESS PLAY COMPETITION! "SO BAD, IT'S GOOD!" |
PLAY TITLE: The Family Room
PLAYWRIGHT: Johnny Drago
SIMON SHAKESPEARE SAYS: "Wow."
RANDY SHAKESPEARE SAYS: "Wow, dawg."
PAULA SHAKESPEARE SAYS: "Wowowow...
(alcoholic drug-induced babble, etc.)"
RANDY SHAKESPEARE SAYS: "Wow, dawg."
PAULA SHAKESPEARE SAYS: "Wowowow...
(alcoholic drug-induced babble, etc.)"
"In a latchkey world of hypersexualized youth and
much-too-much free time, a young girl sinks into
the uncharted waters of taboo perversion and
unnamed depravity. Her porn-mogul parents find
themselves perched on the brink between
familial disaster and the evolution of an oeuvre.
Her fifteen year-old brother just wants to get
some. A dark meditation on pornography,
bestiality, incest, and the nature of art. "
much-too-much free time, a young girl sinks into
the uncharted waters of taboo perversion and
unnamed depravity. Her porn-mogul parents find
themselves perched on the brink between
familial disaster and the evolution of an oeuvre.
Her fifteen year-old brother just wants to get
some. A dark meditation on pornography,
bestiality, incest, and the nature of art. "
SAMPLE DIALOGUE:
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MOM
Listen, it has taken me years to get where I am. Years of hard work and dedication. Great
artists aren’t just born, Hal. You’ve said that yourself time and again. They’re nurtured.
They’re cultivated. They’re ripened, bit by bit. And I have achieved something by now.
We have achieved something, Hal. And I’ll be damned if you’re going to just drag me back
to square one over the course of an afternoon.
DAD
(his dignity offended,)
Oh. So you think it’s beneath you, now?
MOM
my knees, day after day, praying this big dumb animal won’t go crazy and trample me to
who’ll do what I’ve done for you? Turn your rinky-dinky little bargain-bin amateur death
or gore me, while you and your so-called crew of professionals play with yourselves
through your khakis. You think you can find some easy, sexually adventurous little tramp
take!homemade naughty videotapes into the top-selling, most-requested specialty animal
fetish series of all time? Of all time?! Oh, I don’t think so, Hal. I don’t think so. You just
remember, it ain’t the bull those guys at home are jacking off to. It’s me. It’s me. It’s the
look on my face. It’s me moaning. It’s my—woo-woo—being ripped nearly in half every
take!
Note: All excerpts and other items posted on this website are the exclusive intellectual
property of the competing playwrights, provided for the sole purpose of gathering
feedback for this contest. All rights reserved.
MOM
Listen, it has taken me years to get where I am. Years of hard work and dedication. Great
artists aren’t just born, Hal. You’ve said that yourself time and again. They’re nurtured.
They’re cultivated. They’re ripened, bit by bit. And I have achieved something by now.
We have achieved something, Hal. And I’ll be damned if you’re going to just drag me back
to square one over the course of an afternoon.
DAD
(his dignity offended,)
Oh. So you think it’s beneath you, now?
MOM
my knees, day after day, praying this big dumb animal won’t go crazy and trample me to
who’ll do what I’ve done for you? Turn your rinky-dinky little bargain-bin amateur death
or gore me, while you and your so-called crew of professionals play with yourselves
through your khakis. You think you can find some easy, sexually adventurous little tramp
take!homemade naughty videotapes into the top-selling, most-requested specialty animal
fetish series of all time? Of all time?! Oh, I don’t think so, Hal. I don’t think so. You just
remember, it ain’t the bull those guys at home are jacking off to. It’s me. It’s me. It’s the
look on my face. It’s me moaning. It’s my—woo-woo—being ripped nearly in half every
take!
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