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Canada Archives Canada Published Heritage Direction Du Branch Patrimoine De I'edition REVIEW: A STAGEPLAY FOR TWO PLAYERS A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Guelph by DAVID JAMES BROCK In partial fulfillment of requirements For the degree of Master of Fine Arts August, 2008 © David James Brock, 2008 Library and Bibliotheque et 1*1 Archives Canada Archives Canada Published Heritage Direction du Branch Patrimoine de I'edition 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington Ottawa ON K1A0N4 Ottawa ON K1A0N4 Canada Canada Your file Votre reference ISBN: 978-0-494-42759-0 Our file Notre reference ISBN: 978-0-494-42759-0 NOTICE: AVIS: The author has granted a non­ L'auteur a accorde une licence non exclusive exclusive license allowing Library permettant a la Bibliotheque et Archives and Archives Canada to reproduce, Canada de reproduire, publier, archiver, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public communicate to the public by par telecommunication ou par Plntemet, prefer, telecommunication or on the Internet, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans loan, distribute and sell theses le monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, worldwide, for commercial or non­ sur support microforme, papier, electronique commercial purposes, in microform, et/ou autres formats. paper, electronic and/or any other formats. The author retains copyright L'auteur conserve la propriete du droit d'auteur ownership and moral rights in et des droits moraux qui protege cette these. this thesis. Neither the thesis Ni la these ni des extraits substantiels de nor substantial extracts from it celle-ci ne doivent etre imprimes ou autrement may be printed or otherwise reproduits sans son autorisation. reproduced without the author's permission. In compliance with the Canadian Conformement a la loi canadienne Privacy Act some supporting sur la protection de la vie privee, forms may have been removed quelques formulaires secondaires from this thesis. ont ete enleves de cette these. While these forms may be included Bien que ces formulaires in the document page count, aient inclus dans la pagination, their removal does not represent il n'y aura aucun contenu manquant. any loss of content from the thesis. Canada Acknowledgements The playwright wishes to acknowledge all the people who helped with this draft of the playscript, and to thank in advance, any directors, actors, designers and dramaturges who continue to help with the development of this piece for production. For her encouragement, suggestions, challenges and space, the playwright thanks Judith Thompson for her role as advisor while developing this play to its thesis form. For his rigourous questions and political insight as it pertains to the play, Sky Gilbert was second to none. Abby Whidden's reading of the earliest draft of the play provided the perfect balance of editorial and content related questioning. For creating a dynamic and useful workshop process, the playwright gratefully acknowledges Leah Jane Esau, Duncan Patterson, and Lexi von Konigslow. For her encouragement and thoughtful analysis from an actor's perspective, Freya Ravensbergen was invaluable. For her inspiration and amazing critical faculty, the playwright thanks Constance Rooke: this play is dedicated to her. And finally, a debt of gratitude to my parents, whose support provided me precious time to work on a creative thesis, when I might have been off making money. 1 CHARACTERS REBECCA, 32. She is put together and attractive, which is added to by the charming combination of intelligence and calculated awkwardness. DAVIS, 55. The type of writer who becomes his characters—not the other way around. We'd hate him if he wasn't a writer; then again, he wouldn't be such a dick if he wasn't. SETTING A kitchen in an urban upscale home. Tonight. NOTES // indicates interrupting dialogue. indicates sounds of discomfort that do not come out as words. Maybe it's a grunt. Maybe it's a sigh. The dialogue around it will suggest the sound. 1 "You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists." — Wayne Gretzky "You said that nothing can come in-between us The way of getting things we wanted done Then enissophobia held you under its influence Until you compromised your style." — Megadeth Enissophilia —noun 1. Abnormal persistent love of criticism. 2. Abnormal persistent love of attack. — based on the phobia, a made but logical noun. 2 THE PLAY REBECCA alone. She holds a stylish briefcase. Examines unfamiliar surroundings impatiently. DA VIS enters. Cheerfulness masks resentment. DAVIS So you're the ballbreaker? REBECCA I'm sorry? DAVIS Don't be sorry. Pause. REBECCA I was just about to leave, you know— DAVIS Your article said I was a misogynist— REBECCA You let me in, make me wait fifteen minutes... DAVIS //Suddenly you're against name calling? REBECCA I said what I felt. DAVIS Figured you should've met me before you started calling me names. REBECCA It's not about you... DAVIS //Met some sort of journalistic standards and what-have-you REBECCA It was about your book... DAVIS Or are you a throw snowballs from behind snow banks kinda girl? REBECCA What's that smell? DAVIS It's Italian. I got it in Italy where they don't fill goddamned colognes with water. Like it? REBECCA It's very.. .present. DAVIS Better be. REBECCA So what am I doing here? DAVIS I don't know.. .what are you doing here? REBECCA Okay, so this is some sort of game. DAVIS No game. REBECCA Invite me to your home, have me give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe you are nothing like your books, then prove you are exactly like them? DAVIS //You got kids? REBECCA //Calling me girl and making me wait... DAVIS //No kids? 4 REBECCA //While you go and douse yourself with Italian—Huh? DAVIS Kids. Have them, Becky? REBECCA Rebecca. DAVIS Eh? REBECCA What does my having kids have anything to do with anything? DAVIS I have two kids and eight novels. REBECCA I know. DAVIS Had you written the kind of shit you did about my two kids, I wouldn't have asked to meet you. That I can ignore— REBECCA If it's all the same, I'd rather you get to your reason for this meeting so you can disagree with me, I can defend myself and we can leave it alone knowing that neither of us changed the other's mind, but at least we had it out, and remain the gods of our own ethical universe. DAVIS //Married? REBECCA Are you serious? DAVIS Me neither. Anymore. REBECCA I know your bio. 5 DAVIS Of course you do. You do your research, don't you? Where'd you go to school? REBECCA What's with all the personal questions? DAVIS You seem to know everything about me. I'd like to know a bit about you. REBECCA Why? DAVIS {Readingfrom a newspaper article.) 'The muscular prose of E.H. Davis's The Black Year flexes too much bravado and not only degrades his female protagonist, but more egregiously, by appropriating the slave narrative, makes an exploitative connection between a victim's desire for sexual assault, violent sexuality, and slavery.' REBECCA //If you've brought me here to simply read back what I wrote... DAVIS // 'In E.H. Davis's world, every woman wants a raping.' REBECCA //You can save the scolding. DAVIS Your parents must be proud. REBECCA My mother is proud. DAVIS Okay. I get it now. REBECCA Get what? DAVIS Daddy left when you were what.. .two? 6 REBECCA Am I here to be insulted? DAVIS //Fucked off somewhere with his secretary and growing up you took the eightfold path to feminism.. .grew your body hair, read a lot of Gloria Steinem, kissed your first boy to a Janis Joplin album— REBECCA How do people normally react when you verbally abuse them? DAVIS And now you dress this way to score that notion that a woman can still be a feminist and look feminine. REBECCA Right. That's why. DAVIS You a dyke? REBECCA I thought you might be slightly less offensive than your books... DAVIS A rug boinker? REBECCA Never would've thought you'd be worse. DAVIS Just trying to get at the source of the bubbling hate this review has for all things male. REBECCA Those bubbles are because of your book. DAVIS Which exist because you hate men, right? REBECCA Yes. Yes, okay you got me... I'm a lesbian. DAVIS No you're not. 7 REBECCA Whatever you say, Mister Davis. DAVIS Unless you're a lipstick lesbian... REBECCA Which would turn you on, no doubt. DAVIS Nah, nothing about lesbians turns me on. See that's where your preconceived notions of me would be tested, Becky.. .I'm really a gentle guy. My tastes are almost.. .catholic. REBECCA If it's all the same, I'd rather we stick to the article, which is after all... DAVIS Red or white? REBECCA What? DAVIS Wine. I have a beautiful French First Growth I picked up last spring— REBECCA I'm not staying long enough for wine, Mister Davis. DAVIS You came here just to leave? REBECCA //I'm here out of professional courtesy. DAVIS //And can we drop the Mister? REBECCA //And because I thought maybe you were a reasonable, uh, uh... DAVIS //It's Emmett, please. REBECCA What I wrote, I wrote in a professional.. .1 mean, it was respectful even don't respect what it is you write.. .1 thought you would be respectful too... DAVIS //All the formality, Becky... REBECCA But I never expected... DAVIS You never expected you'd have to face your reviewee..
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