We are deep into rehearsals for The Right Room, which opens (and, as it happens, closes) on Friday, July 18 as part of the BorderLight Theater Festival in Playhouse Square.
This is a new work, and because of that and also because it needs to fit neatly within a one hour timeframe, there need be editing. That is good. I like editing. The work is not done. Even when it is done, it is not done.
It is not surprising to me that dialogue between the two characters from the 1990s might have be a bit too ... trivial? Let's say dry. Or ironic, don't you think? And possibly unnecessary.
For time, and also comprehension, we cut the following exchange about infidelity.
Characters:
Steve (M, 26)Aubrey (F, 24)
Time: Fall 1994
Place: A hotel room, Independence, OH
STEVEN
I do worry I am what they call a serial monogamist.AUBREY
I don’t like that term. It sounds pathological.STEVEN
Like serial killer.AUBREY
Serial anything, like a radio drama.STEVEN
A serial.AUBREY
Yeah.STEVEN
I’ve been eating a lot of cereal.AUBREY
We’re the generation that can eat cereal for dinner.STEVEN
Who waits for dinner?AUBREY
I don’t worry about it, I think that’s a natural state for man to be in.STEVEN
Serial monogamy.AUBREY
Yeah.STEVEN
I like the way you say yeah.AUBREY
Yeah.STEVEN
Yeah.[Waving their hands:]
STEVEN & AUBREY
Yeah!!!STEVEN
I could deal with the monogamy, it’s the cheating I can’t abide.AUBREY
Don’t cheat, then.STEVEN
The first time I heard the song “Tempted” I thought, oh! Cheating is a thing you can do.AUBREY
I mean, there’s “The Piña Colada Song.”STEVEN
Yeah! Or “Careless Whisper.”AUBREY
Tipper Gore was right.# # #
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