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    Teddy Ferrara (TCG Edition)
    Teddy Ferrara (TCG Edition)
    Teddy Ferrara (TCG Edition)
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    Teddy Ferrara (TCG Edition)

    By Christopher Shinn

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    "Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today."The New York Times

    "Chris Shinn explores politics and ethics without moralizing and finds justice and beauty in intimate life, keenly observed and rendered scrupulously, unapologetically, fearlessly . . . I admire his work enormously."Tony Kushner

    When a campus tragedy makes national headlines, Gabe, a senior who runs the Queer Students Group, discovers that events surrounding the tragedy aren't as straightforward as they seem. A Pulitzer Prize finalist's searing play about what happens when a tragedy sparks a movement and the truth gets lost along the way. World Premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in winter 2013.

    Christopher Shinn's works include Where Do We Live, Four, Other People, What Didn't Happen, On the Mountain, and The Coming World. He has received the Obie Award for playwriting and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, and has also been shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play and nominated for an Olivier Award for Most Promising Playwright.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTheatre Communications Group
    Release dateNov 4, 2013
    ISBN9781559367578
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      Teddy Ferrara (TCG Edition) - Christopher Shinn

      1.1

      Drew enters.

      DREW: Need help?

      GABE: Hey!

      DREW: Jesus. Sure this wasn’t the meeting of the Dessert Club?

      GABE: I said refreshments in the fliers. I thought more people might come if we had cupcakes.

      DREW: So either no one came, or you got a lot of cupcakes.

      GABE: No one had any! Maybe gay guys don’t want to be fat?

      DREW: But dykes don’t care about that.

      GABE: Drew!

      DREW: Um, it’s true—lesbians are not as body-obsessed as gay dudes.

      GABE: Well, we’re still not really attracting lesbians. I opened the box and everyone just stared!

      DREW: If I’d been here I would have had one.

      GABE: But you weren’t.

      DREW: That is true, I was not! Mm, this is good. Too sweet—which is good.

      GABE: Some people had Diet Coke. It’s so hard to get people interested in this group!

      DREW: Queer students want to spend their time being queer, not in a Queer Students group.

      GABE: Why is it so hard to build a community? It’s so frustrating to me—

      DREW: I’m telling you—Friday’s the deadline to declare—if you really want to make an impact—

      GABE: Drew, I am not going to be Student Assembly President!

      DREW: You would win.

      GABE: I’m not that kind of—big personality.

      DREW: Yes you are! —Are you not doing it because you think Tim would be mad at you?

      GABE: Why would Tim be mad? He’s not running for reelection.

      DREW: I don’t understand, you want to make a difference so badly—why won’t you do it?

      GABE: God! A week of dating and you’re already telling me what to do!

      DREW: Hey, that’s mean!

      GABE: Kidding! Kidding . . .

      (They kiss.)

      DREW: And it’s a week and a half—jerk—

      (Teddy enters.)

      TEDDY: Is this the Queer Students meeting?

      DREW: It’s over.

      GABE: It was three to four—but I can fill you in—what’s your name?

      TEDDY: Ted Ferrara—Teddy—Ted—

      GABE: Ted Ferrara. I’ll add you on Facebook—all we did today was talk about who we are, brainstorm ideas—I’ll message you about it later. We’re sponsoring a dance party Thursday, if you can come to that—and we meet here every Tuesday, three to four.

      TEDDY: I thought it was four.

      GABE: Nothing much happens at the first meeting. Hopefully you can come to the dance party. It’s just off campus, at The Lair, eighteen to get in—all the info’s on our website.

      TEDDY: Okay.

      (Teddy exits.)

      DREW: What a weirdo.

      GABE: He was a little awkward . . .

      DREW: Um: weirdo.

      GABE: He looks like a freshman. I was a mess my first year—until I met Tim—

      DREW: Are you in love with Tim?

      GABE: Am I in love with Tim? What’s that supposed to mean?

      DREW: He’s hot, you’re always talking about him—

      GABE: He’s my best friend. And he’s straight.

      DREW: You can’t be in love with a straight guy? You’re attracted to men—he’s a man.

      GABE: Well. No, I’m not in love with Tim. —I should have offered him a cupcake.

      DREW: He wouldn’t have taken it. Let’s go somewhere and make out.

      GABE: What am I going to do with all these?

      (Drew kisses Gabe.)

      Don’t you have to do newspaper stuff?

      DREW: Yes, but I want to make out.

      GABE: Ha—stop.

      DREW: Come over for a little—

      GABE: I thought you had to work all day because you have that big story coming out—

      DREW: Okay, so come to my office—

      GABE: I have work to do—

      DREW: No you don’t—

      GABE: I have a paper for my Political Anthropology class—

      DREW: God! So unromantic—

      GABE: I think another group has this room at 4:30—so we should—

      DREW: It’s 4:03! We could come twice in that time!

      GABE: Have sex in a classroom? Are you insane?

      DREW: I was just kidding. God, you take everything so seriously!

      GABE: Oh. Well—I’m a serious person.

      DREW: Which is why you should run for President. And before you yell at me for saying that—wanna come over tonight? I’d like to make you dinner. And you could stay the night . . .

      GABE: Like . . . ?

      DREW: Like—I’ll cook dinner. And you’ll sleep over for the first time.

      (Pause.)

      What?

      GABE: Nothing—

      DREW: You seem, like, scared suddenly.

      GABE: No—

      DREW: Why are you scared?

      GABE: I’m not! I’m just thinking.

      DREW: About?

      GABE: No, I just—in my head you had that big story so—I just assumed you’d be working—

      DREW: I have time. Come over at nine.

      GABE: . . . Okay.

      DREW: You’re scared for some reason. What the fuck.

      GABE: I’m not. I’m not.

      (Teddy enters.)

      TEDDY: Sorry—I just—it’s under Ted Ferrara.

      GABE: Oh—right.

      TEDDY: I couldn’t remember if I—said Teddy or Ted—

      GABE: You said both but—Ted—yeah—I’ll find you.

      TEDDY: Sorry—

      DREW (Going): I gotta run—see you tonight!

      (Drew exits. Pause.)

      GABE: Want a cupcake?

      TEDDY: Sure.

      GABE: You can have more to—give to your roommate or—

      TEDDY: Oh—um . . .

      GABE: You don’t have to. I just have a lot extra. So are you a freshman?

      TEDDY: Yeah.

      GABE: So a couple weeks—how’s it going?

      TEDDY: It’s good . . .

      GABE: It’s a big school, it can be a tough transition. Are you from nearby?

      TEDDY: Forty-five minutes . . .

      GABE: Yeah. So not too far. I had a kind of hard time adjusting at first . . .

      TEDDY: I like it so far . . .

      GABE: I also did a double major, Political Science and English—and worked. Do you work?

      TEDDY: I’m—I do computer programming—on my own, I make money doing that . . .

      GABE: Oh wow, that’s cool. Yeah—a lot of kids don’t work, a lot of them are rich—

      TEDDY: That guy is, you can tell.

      GABE: Oh—yeah—I got a big fellowship over the summer, this’ll be the first year I haven’t had to work. Actually have some free time my senior year! And I finally got a single!

      TEDDY: Yeah . . . My roommate is kind of weird.

      GABE: He is?

      TEDDY: I think he’s freaked out I’m gay a little.

      (Pause.)

      GABE: What did he—did he say or do something specific?

      TEDDY: I don’t know . . . not really. I don’t know. He’s okay.

      (Pause.)

      GABE: Is he cute at least?

      TEDDY: Ha. I don’t know . . .

      GABE: Well . . . hopefully you can come to the dance party Thursday.

      TEDDY: Yeah.

      GABE: And I’ll message you. Ted Ferrara.

      (Teddy smiles and exits.)

      1.2

      President enters.

      PRESIDENT: They’re pissed off? By the way, when did they become the Social Justice Committee?

      PROVOST: At the final meeting last semester.

      PRESIDENT: What was

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