Setting: public bathroom
Characters: Transgender (monster), close minded people (de laceys)
Themes: difference is monstrosity,
Audience: Adolescents
Techniques: monologues soliloquies, dialogue
Lighting: artificial bathroom lighting
Music: modern music
Sound effects: bathroom flushes, sinks etc.
Flash of his fears: violent aggression towards him in the bathroom
Plot line:
Scene 1:
Airport waiting section at night (flight has been delayed)
Franki walks past family (father, mother, child) to get to seat.
Father moves child so that they aren’t sitting next to franki.
Mother and daughter go to bathroom
Elevator type music while franki looks around to see stares and whispers (gothic scary atmosphere)
Flash of darkness
Scene 2:
Franki stands to go to the bathroom while she sees all eyes on her
Franki stands by the two bathroom doors (male and female)
Walks into female bathroom
Mother rushes child out of bathroom disgusted
Franki goes to look at herself in mirror
Flash: blood, bruises (mother, child)
Scene 3:
Franki goes into bathroom stall and heard some whispers outside of the stall
Flash: slamming down bathroom door (mother, child, Midle aged woman #1, young man #1)
As soon as she leaves the stall the whispering stops, Middle aged woman #1, Middle aged woman #2.
Middle aged woman #1 stomps out of the bathroom and whispers ‘go back to your own bathroom, you rapist’
Flash: kicking on the ground (mother, child, Middle aged woman #1, young man #1,middle aged woman #2, elderly man, father)
Scene 4:
Franki goes to wash her hands next to where middle aged woman #2 is and feels middle aged woman #2 staring at her through the mirror, who moves to a sink further away.
Flash: pushing head against mirror (mother, child, Middle aged woman #1, young man #1,middle aged woman #2, elderly man, father, young man #2, adolescent girl)
Middle aged woman #2 leaves bathroom
Scene 5:
Adolescent girl leaves stall and starts washing hands, elderly woman leaves bathroom and look at franki and adolescent girl and drags girl out.
Flash: total violence (all)
Scene 6
Lighting to black
Monologue
THE BATHROOM
BY: LUCIA CONDE ARENAS
CAST
(In order of appearance)
Transgender main ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Middle aged woman #1 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Middle aged woman #2 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Adolescent girl ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Elderly woman ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Mother ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Child ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Father ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Elderly man …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Young man #1 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Young man #2 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
ACT 1
SCENE 1 - IMPENDING
SCENE: Cool toned lights come up to reveal night time in an airport. In a waiting segment of the airport waits a group of people whose flight has been delayed. Among them a family of three, MOTHER, FATHER, CHILD, an ELDERLY MAN and ELDERLY WOMAN, and MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1. Airport/Elevator music in the background
AIRPORT ANNOUNCEMENT
We are sorry to announce that flight 203 is to be delayed for another hour
Sighs and groans are heard for people in the waiting room
TRANSGENDER MAIN enters.
She looks around looking for a seat, walks toward an empty seat next to the family of three, and sits.
MOTHER stands in disgust, grabs child’s hand, and exits.
TRANSGENDER MAIN looks down, ALL stare at her. WHISPERS are heard over the repetitive music.
Lights fade darker and darker, and whispers get louder, until TRANSGENDER MAIN lifts head back up, lights go up and music back on.
SCENE 2 - EXPOSED
SCENE: Slightly darker lighting in the waiting room, in which now are sitting, FATHER, ELDERLY MAN, other people. In the bathroom are MOTHER, CHILD, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2.
TRANSGENDER MAIN stands and walks to the bathroom. She reaches the two doors and is conflicted by which bathroom to enter, male or female. She eventually enters the female bathroom.
MOTHER and CHILD are seen by the sink washing their hands. MOTHER immediately grabs CHILD'S hand, and walks toward the exit.
MOTHER
Disgusting.
TRANSGENDER MAIN looks at herself in the mirror.
Lights flash to black to reveal bloodied face of TRANSGENDER MAIN, while MOTHER and CHIld stand in the background. Light flash back to normal to reveal normal face.
SCENE 3 - UNDERTONE
SCENE: Darker lighting in single bathroom stall. In the bathroom now is ADOLESCENT GIRL, ELDERLY WOMAN, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2.
TRANSGENDER MAIN enter bathroom stall. WHISPERING can be heard from outside.
Lights flash to black to reveal, MOTHER, CHILD, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1, YOUNG MAN #1, kicking down the door of the bathroom stall. Flash back to normal lighting, where there is no one.
WHISPERING can still be heard from outside the stall. TRANSGENDER MAIN exits bathroom stall, and WHISPERING between MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1 and MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2 stops, while they stare at TRANSGENDER MAIN.
MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1
Go back to your own bathroom, you rapist.
Exit MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1
Lights flash to black to reveal, MOTHER, CHILD, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1, YOUNG MAN #1, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2, ELDERLY MAN, and FATHER kicking TRANSGENDER MAIN while she is lying on the floor. Flash back to normal lighting, where this isn't happening.
SCENE 4 - HELPLESS
SCENE: Lighting remains dark (artificial type) in bathroom. In the bathroom now is MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2, ADOLESCENT GIRL, ELDERLY WOMAN.
TRANSGENDER MAIN goes to wash her hands next to MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2, who moves one sink further away. MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2, is staring at TRANSGENDER MAIN through the mirror.
Flash to black, to reveal MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2, slamming TRANSGENDER MAIN head into the mirror with MOTHER, CHILD, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #1, YOUNG MAN #1, ELDERLY MAN, FATHER, YOUNG MAN #2, and ADOLESCENT GIRL in the background. Lighting flashes back to normal, to reveal none of this actually happening.
Exit MIDDLE AGED WOMAN #2
SCENE 5 - GUILT
SCENE: Darker lighting in the bathroom, in which now is just ADOLESCENT GIRL and ELDERLY WOMAN.
ADOLESCENT GIRL leaves stall and starts washing hands, ELDERLY WOMAN leaves bathroom and looks at TRANSGENDER MAIN and ADOLESCENT GIRL and drags ADOLESCENT GIRL out of the bathroom.
Flash lights to black, to reveal ALL characters violently punching TRANSGENDER MAIN.
END SCENE.
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