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Hold My Hand Please
Hold My Hand Please
by Daniel Talbott
by Daniel Talbott
Hold My Hand Please by Daniel Talbott is the first in an ongoing series of short plays in LINE, curated by Hywel John.
Daniel Talbott’s most recent work as a director includes Much Ado About Nothing (Boomerang Theatre Company/Central Park), Squealer (Lesser America/Theater for the New City) and The Umbrella Plays (The Tank/FringeNYC), and as an actor he’s appeared most recently on The Big C. His play Slipping was produced at Rattlestick with Piece by Piece Productions, and was a finalist for the 2011 Lambda Literary Award. He is one of the literary managers of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).
Copyright December 2010
December 22, 2010 Draft
A dark, almost empty, carpeted rumpus room in a generic middle/lower middle class
suburban tract home somewhere in America.
A girl and a boy sit, or stand, or lay on the floor.
It’s dark. Maybe a cheap lantern or something is hung over the ceiling light.
The boy has a beer. A cheap beer.
It’s late at night. It’s quiet. Almost empty.
1
Do you ever watch porn?
2
Like porn porn?
1
Yeah…like Porn.
Like..
Like porn porn.
Like
You know…
Like…
Like some fucking…
Some fucking dude…
You know?
Like…
Like…
Porn?
2
No.
