PLAYING CHECKERS
Playing Checkers is a chilling tale about incestuous abuse between a brother and sister and power: the power we steal in during intimacy, and how taking control of your past can be as easy and as challenging as checkers.
Run Time: 10 minutes Casting: 1 mid 20's male, 1 mid 20's female
Run Time: 10 minutes Casting: 1 mid 20's male, 1 mid 20's female
Production History
Premiere Production at "Such Times" Heart and Dagger Productions Annuel Sex Fest. Directed by Devon Scalisi. Featuring Melissa DeJesus and Chuong Pham.
Finalist at Region 1 of the 47th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for the National Ten Minute Play Award.
PRessBut "Playing Checkers" by Cassie M. Seinuk is the culmination of some of the finest insights this production has to offer. The dialogue is natural and the performances are believable. The audience is carefully seduced into a complex, upsetting and deeply human sexual relationship. There is so much going on in this short play. More press for Playing Checkers here |
Hint of Dialogue
TOM: When we were kids we could do all this shit we can’t do now. ALEXA: Like what? Poop in our pants? Have Mommy wipe it up. I’ll take being a grown up over that any day. TOM: We could like eat dirt, and it was cute. ALEXA (laughing): No. No! I never ate dirt. That was all you. TOM: Dip cheesdoodles in the toilet. ALEXA: OK. That was me. TOM: Or like pick our noses and eat it right in public, at the dinner table even, and no one would be the wiser. ALEXA (laughing harder): You still do that when no one’s looking. |
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