Excerpt from Guaranteed Interactions

QUEER-INTIMACIES

Four tableaus in darkness. Spotlights light up each tableau as they speak and goes off when done, from left to right.

#1. ACTOR A laying on the floor with arms in a T, and their legs vertical up the legs/abdomen of ACTOR B who is standing. ACTOR B gently pounds on the heels of ACTOR A with loose fists while A is speaking.

ACTOR A: We had met that day

The best friend of a best friend;

I was anxious from the plane

And couldn’t find any space.

How it happened I can’t recall

But, somehow, they became my wall.

#2. ACTOR C laying on her back; ACTOR D is kissing the inside of her knee and cupping her hip bone.

ACTOR C: I didn’t go down.

ACTOR D: Not yet,

ACTOR C: She said.

I wanted to taste her

Gently, gratefully, instead

I kissed her softness

And caressed her hardness.

#3. ACTOR E is laying across a bed, looking out, ACTOR F is sitting on a chair facing ACTOR E, with her back to the audience, hunched over her pubic area.

ACTOR F: I had never trimmed in front of anyone before

He was watching TV

He was watching me

It was the smoothest its ever been.

#4. ACTOR G laying on their back, ACTOR H laying on her stomach, with her head on ACTOR G’s stomach, looking up at G.

ACTOR G: She talked on me all night

I asked if she wanted to sleep

She said,

ACTOR H: No, please, just this

I want to lay here and feel you exist.

FINE