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ISBN 978-0-573-69792-0
Karl Gajdusek
Drama
3m, 2f
Mary and David, camped out amidst the boxes her abused mother left behind, are unpacking a small San Francisco apartment. Outside, people self-actualize like crazy, riding the bubble. When Mary herself is the victim of an unprovoked act of violence, it leads the pair down different paths of addiction and realization: one to the violence itself, one to the abuse of cat tranquilizers. Meanwhile, Richard is a benevolent drug dealer working on his book while Sylvia wants to use the internet to double her life. Drugs are consumed, David is tempted, Mary’s anger rises, and a gun is found among the house’s boxed possessions, as the mood spirals into delirium. FUBAR is the story of four people trying to recognize the people they are becoming in a time that’s totally F.U.B.A.R. (F*cked up Beyond All Recognition).
“A writer for Showtime’s “Dead Like Me,” Gajdusek has a TV scripter’s flair for snappy dialogue, but he also has a much rarer talent for deep characterization and empathy, even when dealing with his most contemptible characters.” — Variety
“The dot-com bubble — well, its splintered psyches — are the subject of the feverish FUBAR, an engrossing evocation of a time (the turn of the millennium) and a place (San Francisco, awash in Web money, pharmaceutical acronyms and online sexual encounters)....the play rings true in feeling if not in plausibility...Mr. Gajdusek has a gift for the humorous moment...the production pulses like an all-night Ecstasy-fueled rave...FUBAR, leaves you with a decent buzz.” — The New York Times Click below for additional materials:
FUBAR (Logo Pack)Character Descriptions:MARY - Mid-thirties. Doctor. Carries the silence of someone who grew up in another’s shadow. Her mother recently took her own life, so the shadow’s gone. But Mary is still quiet.
DAVID - Early thirties. Mary’s husband. Exec at a nameless internet firm. Had a big exciting kick-ass plan about how this was all supposed to
work. This plan should be starting any day now.
RICHARD - Mid-thirties. Charismatic, intelligent, drug-dealer. David’s
old friend.
SYLVIA - Late twenties. Beautiful San Francisco denizen. Outgoing and
adventurous. Trying to have the biggest life possible.
D.C. - Late thirties. Boxer, retired. Old school. Lives in a different San
Francisco from the others.
FEE: $75.00 per performance
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