Let's have sex!
A
play in two acts
Translated by Eugene Reznikov and
James Walker.
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Synopsis
2 men and 3
women. Interior.
šEvery personage of this strange, absurd play
talks and thinks only about sex. But the frivolous title of this comedy is
delusive: the drama is complicated, tragic, and ant the same time, amusing.
It is difficult to define the genre of this play. It may be called both
a psychological drama, and a theater of the absurd, a play that deals with
paradox, a philosophical play…. It may be defined as a comedy, but it
will not be a mistake to call it also a tragedy. The characters come from
nowhere and leave to nowhere. They are familiar to each other and at the same
time seem to see each other for the first time.
There are 5 characters in the play: the Husband, the Wife, the Sister,
the Girl, and the Professor. They are quite real and authentic. At the same
time, it is difficult to understand, whether the Wife really is someone’s
wife, the Professor – a real professor, etc. There is no plot in the
traditional meaning of the word. The play is constructed on the principle of a rondo:
movement goes in a circle, or, more precisely, a spiral. The characters’
actions are motivated by loneliness, their yearning for love and emotion, their
desire to escape from their problems. Or maybe all these conversations are
simply the product of a deranged mind?š
The play has been staged in 2003 in
Characters
husband
wife
professor
girl
sister
Partš ONE
The stage can represent an empty space. The room may be furnished with nothing more than a
table, some chairs and an armchair.
The HUSBAND is reading a book. The WIFE enters. The
HUSBAND continues to read. The WIFE goes out, enters again. The HUSBAND continues
to read.
WIFE.
Let's have sex.
HUSBAND.
OK. (Continues to read.)
WIFE.
Let's have sex!
HUSBAND.
(Continues to read.) šOK!
WIFE.
I said - let's have sex!
HUSBAND.
What?
WIFE.
Sex!!
HUSBAND.
Right now?
WIFE.
Why not?
HUSBAND.
Just let me finish reading this page.
WIFE.
What if I want it right now?
HUSBAND.
What has come over you?
WIFE.
Nothing. Do you have any objections?
HUSBAND.
Me? No. (Continues to read.)
WIFE.
Well?
HUSBAND.
Well, what?
WIFE.
You said that you have no objection.
HUSBAND.
To what?
WIFE.
To doing it.
. . . . . . . . .
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