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She Kills Monsters ~ 1 ~ She Kills Monsters By Qui Nguyen Directed By Adam Noble Dramaturgy By Brien Bianchi, Faith Tenney, and Will Inman ~ 2 ~ Table of Contents: About the Play: 3 Qui Nguyen: Playwright : 5 State of the Gay: Gay Culture in the 90s: 7 Bestiary: 10 Character Alignments; Where do you fall?: 22 ~ 3 ~ About the Play: Gary Gygax and his partners made their first release of Dungeons and Dragons in January 1974, as a means to provide tools to young and emerging game-makers with which to create a game and world all their own. That’s all that this game is, really - a bunch of rules and tools that depend entirely upon the imaginations and creativity of the players and Dungeon. As such, there is a definite aspect of wish fulfillment involved in the playing of this game and its descendants. Imagine the archetypical geek character, often small and weak, often clumsy, or unable to engage in athletic and “cool” activities. Within a game of D&D they might become eight-foot-tall barbarians, alien lizard people, or wizards whose lack of physical might is made up for by their ability to channel the power of their mind into physical forces of ice and fire. In the 42 years since its release the game has grown to suit the needs of a wide range of tastes. Expansions have been provided to take gamers outside of the realm of fantasy and into Outer Space, The Wild West, Post-Apocalyptic Wastelands, Steam-Punk Landscapes, and more. In the world of our play, Agnes gets to be reunited with her sister, Tilly enjoys a position in the majority instead of being marginalized as a geek, and Kelly is able to execute amazing acrobatic prowess. Characters fly through the air, fire off magical spells, and find love in a world where they make the rules (but must still follow them). This gives rise the idea of escapism; the fleeing, if only briefly, from the struggles that each of us face in our daily lives in the “real” world. Many who have been identified as “geeks” are scorned for this behavior and apparent lack of ability to function within the world into which they were born. J.R.R. Tolkien, in response to such attitudes, wrote in his essay On Faerie Stories that, “Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics ~ 4 ~ than jailers and prison-walls?” He further talks of the restorative aspects of escapist behavior. How, through such activities of reading fantasy literature, playing games (both video and table-top), and imagining, one can restore themselves enough to return to the fight of daily real life. With the issues that the human race faces today such as racism, homophobia, illness, and hate, is it any wonder that there are those who would choose to seek out or create worlds in which they are powerful enough to make a difference and/or where opposition can always be overcome by whatever it is that they bring to the table. ~ 5 ~ Qui Nguyen: Playwright Qui Nguyen (pronounced “Kwee Gwen”) was born in El Dorado, Arkansas on January 1st, 1976. He is a playwright, screenwriter, and an overall pioneer of “geek culture.” He and his most frequent collaborators, director Robert Ross Parker and designer Nick Francone founded the theatre company Vampire Cowboys in 2000 right out of graduate school. The OBIE award winning company describes itself as a, “geek theatre” company that creates and produces new works of theatre based in action/adventure and dark comedy with a comic book aesthetic. The company actively pursues the mating of different genres with varied theatrical styles to create an eclectic structure to tell its stories. The company aims to bridge the gap between mass media entertainment and the performing arts, exposing the community to challenging, thought-provoking live entertainment rooted in today’s pop-culture vernacular.” Each of the founders used their own skills to create something that had not been prevalent on the stage: “ninjas, kung-fu, girl fights,” as Nguyen explained it to The New York Observer in 2012. However, the Vampire Cowboys spent their first few years putting on theatre that generally went unnoticed. That changed when Abby Marcus, now Qui Nguyen’s wife, first saw a production at Vampire Cowboys in 2007 and became determined to find them an audience. She quickly arranged for them to perform a choreographed fight from their upcoming superhero play Men of Steel. After that, they began to draw in a fiercely loyal crowd. Apart from the company’s devotion to geek culture, many of its shows strive to feature women in empowered roles in which are figured in roles often considered to be masculine such as super heroes, fantasy warriors, and ninjas. Stage violence has always been close to Nguyen’s heart. Many of his graduate school teachers discouraged him from putting fight scenes on the stage, arguing that violence was best fit for film. This only fueled his drive to put action onstage. “I don’t think Shakespeare sat around and complained, ‘Well, I want to put in a sword fight, but that’s really a film technique,’” Nguyen said in the same interview with The New York Observer, “In film you’re constrained by realism, but I can just have five puppets and some smoke and it becomes a dragon.” He spent five years in New York as a fight director, then three years teaching stage combat at Columbia before he and his wife moved to Minneapolis in 2010. His scripts include: Vietgone (South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Company, Manhattan Theatre Club) She Kills Monsters (The Flea, Buzz Chicago/Steppenwolf, Company One) ~ 6 ~ War is Fucking Awesome (developed in the Sundance Theatre Lab) Krunk Fu Battle Battle (East West Players) Bike Wreck (Ensemble Studio Theatre) Trial By Water (Ma-Yi Theater) Aliens Versus Cheerleaders (Keen Teens) Soul Samurai The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G (Ma-Yi Theater & Vampire Cowboys) and the plays produced by his own Vampire Cowboys: Alice in Slasherland Fight Girl Battle World Men of Steel Living Dead in Denmark. ~ 7 ~ “State of the Gay”: Gay culture in the 90’s 2016 is a wonderful time to be gay. Same-sex marriage has been legalized, there are gay celebrities everywhere you look, and there are informative, safe gay youth programs all over the country. If it feels like acceptance of homosexuality is skyrocketing, the 90’s was when it was beginning to crest. Before understanding being a gay, early 90’s teen on a personal level, we’ll look at the facts. There was quite a lot of political progress going on in this period. In 1990: the Federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act is passed- the first federal recognition of homosexuals. In this year Dale McCormick also became the first openly lesbian senator. In 1991: the first Pride celebration happened in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was called the Unity Festival. 1993 gave us our first Dyke March in Washington, D.C. That same year, Bill Clinton instituted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Although by current standards this measure is draconic and discriminatory, by the standards of 1993 it was progressive and divisive. Before the policy was enacted, homosexuals were sniffed out and ~ 8 ~ dishonorably discharged from service. Bill Clinton announced that sex was none of the government’s business, which was a ballsy move and important to the LGBT movement. 1994 also had the American Medical Association opposing the “treatment” of homosexuality. Conversion therapy, as it was called, was a method of exposing same-sex oriented people (often teenagers) to members of the opposite sex until their homosexuality was “cured”. A flat denial from the AMA of homosexuality as a disease was a huge win for the gay community. As we edge closer to Tillie’s experience, we move into the world of popular culture. The first lesbian kiss on television was between Amanda Donohoe and Michele Greene on L.A. Law in 1991. It was undoubtedly a publicity stunt, but that fact hardly registered with the lesbian teens across the country who were exposed to it. Grammy-winner Melissa Etheridge came out in 1993 at the Triangle Ball, which was also the first inaugural ball held in honor of gays and lesbians. Perhaps most importantly was Pedro Zamora of The Real World San Francisco. The first positively-portrayed AIDs-positive man on television, he continued to do educational works for gay teens until his death in 1995. This leads us to the individual experience of the gay teenager. Today, when we think of gay issues, we think of marriage equality. In the early 90’s, homosexuality was immediately associated with violence and AIDs. In 2016, gay youth worry about bullying while their families worry about them not fitting in. In the 90’s, gay youth worried about beatings while their families worried about a terminal illness. Perhaps the hardest idea for modern teenagers to understand is the fear gay youth experienced in that time period. Sure, there is a little anxiety about coming out nowadays, but with all of the programs and online assistance available, it is hardly a life-threatening concern. While all of the things listed above make the 90’s seem like a gay paradise, it’s important to ~ 9 ~ keep in mind that those things were only happening at the top, while the normal towns in the flyover states were still being faced with a rock-solid wall of opposition.
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