Where’s Erica? Submission
You know, I thought she looked familiar.
(via:Trevor Williams)
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White Bred
Erica Livingston © 2010
Erica sits in front of the block with a mayonnaise sandwich. The florescent lights are on.
Erica: Recently I was asked to cry over a mayonnaise sandwich.
Neo 1: Treat it like Chekhov.
Erica: That’s what the casting director actually said.
Erica: I tried. (She tries) I tried thinking of terrible things, my insecurities, my failures, the loss of my grandfather. I was trying to summon up the sadness I felt and still feel about his death and I could see papaw in the sandwich. I was putting my dead grandfather in a mayonnaise sandwich and then I had to take a bite…of papaw. And cry. And I couldn’t do it.
Neo 1: I need to see real tears.
Erica: I have auditioned for two different mayonnaise companies. I would really like to help sell mayonnaise because I love mayonnaise, because where I’m from we eat mayonnaise on everything, I mean really, my mother eats mayo on more than just white bread, I’m talking black eyed peas and butter beans. She also drinks buttermilk over ice with cornbread in it, which is just gross. But there is something about all of that that I love. Some ownership of where I came from and who I am. Cause what else am I gonna do with it?
Fall
© 2008 Erica Livingston
Erica stands behind a podium. During the short monologue she takes off her makeup, applies moisturizer, eye cream and begins applying lotion to her body.
My grandmother takes very good care of herself. Before bed and after her shower she washes her face and uses her toner and then heavily moisturizes her face. Then she applies lotion all over her body taking special care of the rough spots like her elbows and the backs of her arms and her knees. This is I guess why her skin in the softest sweetest skin I have ever had the pleasure of touching. This is also why she looks like she’s in her sixties when in fact she is 85. If I took this much care of myself every night I would look younger than my twelve-year old daughter.
Erica tosses the lotion on the ground and falls behind it to the floor.
Where’s Erica?
I think it’s pretty obvious where she is.
(via:adamsmithshareswithyou)
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