"Where are your eyes? Put them back."
The mini-play, "A Coupla Fairly Odd Old Electric Train Engineers" is Peter Dizozza's contribution to the April 22-24, 2007 48 Hour Spontaneous Combustion Production #27. Three performances at Manhattan Theatre Source. Encore performance with Peter Dizozza and Maria Micheles at the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts at Theater for the New City, May 25th, 2007 available on demand here.
Requirements: The play must include an odd "coupla 'a" and the opening line must be "This isn't going to work."
(from
another email: Someone asked, Why was the female character the one who posed the threat of
an inner monster?...
The female character posing the threat of inner monster was to balance the
posing of the threat of the inner monster by the (male) Virginia Tech killer who
refused to answer or even make eye-contact with his roommates. (The writing and
performance of this mini play was a few days after that tragedy of April 16,
2007.)
One could replace the killer's accusatory words into her dialogue in the place of the line "self-serving entrepreneur." (The Virginia Tech killer wrote a manifesto which he delivered between shootings.)
As for what happens after the eye contact... their inner worlds externalize... dead whales, oil rigs, train engines... )
Jean Noel Ruhland (Rosa) and Stuart Green (David)
I can just faintly
see its outline as it sinks to the Erie Basin floor of the Gowanus Canal.
