Valentin Krasnogorov

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's have sex!

 

 

A play in two acts

 

Translated by Eugene Reznikov and James Walker.

 

 

 

 

 

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Synopsis

 

2 men and 3 women. Interior.

 

šEvery personage of this strange, absurd play talks and thinks only about sex. But the frivolous title of this comedy is delusive: the drama is complicated, tragic, and ant the same time, amusing.

 

It is difficult to define the genre of this play. It may be called both a psychological drama, and a theater of the absurd, a play that deals with paradox, a philosophical play…. It may be defined as a comedy, but it will not be a mistake to call it also a tragedy. The characters come from nowhere and leave to nowhere. They are familiar to each other and at the same time seem to see each other for the first time.

 

There are 5 characters in the play: the Husband, the Wife, the Sister, the Girl, and the Professor. They are quite real and authentic. At the same time, it is difficult to understand, whether the Wife really is someone’s wife, the Professor – a real professor, etc. There is no plot in the traditional meaning of the word. The play is constructed on the principle of a rondo: movement goes in a circle, or, more precisely, a spiral. The characters’ actions are motivated by loneliness, their yearning for love and emotion, their desire to escape from their problems. Or maybe all these conversations are simply the product of a deranged mind?š

 

The play has been staged in 2003 in Moscow by the most famous theater director of Russia, Roman Viktyuk, and is an enormous success. It has been staged in many other countries.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Characters

 

 

 

husband

wife

professor

girl

sister

 

 

 


 

Partš ONE

 

The stage can represent an empty space. The room may be furnished with nothing more than a table, some chairs and an armchair.

The HUSBAND is reading a book. The WIFE enters. The HUSBAND continues to read. The WIFE goes out, enters again. The HUSBAND continues to read.

 

WIFE. Let's have sex.

HUSBAND. OK. (Continues to read.)

WIFE. Let's have sex!

HUSBAND. (Continues to read.) šOK!

WIFE. I said - let's have sex!

HUSBAND. What?

WIFE. Sex!!

HUSBAND. Right now?

WIFE. Why not?

HUSBAND. Just let me finish reading this page.

WIFE. What if I want it right now?

HUSBAND. What has come over you?

WIFE. Nothing. Do you have any objections?

HUSBAND. Me? No. (Continues to read.)

WIFE. Well?

HUSBAND. Well, what?

WIFE. You said that you have no objection.

HUSBAND. To what?

WIFE. To doing it.

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Scenes from he spectacle see http://picasaweb.google.com/valentin.krasnogorov/LetSHaveSexVariousCountries?feat=directlink

And

http://picasaweb.google.com/valentin.krasnogorov/LetSHaveSexMoscow20032003?feat=directlink

 

 

 

Please connect to the author VALENTIN KRASNOGOROV:

14-1-772 Lanskoe shosse

197343 St.-Petersburg

Russia

tel.     (7)-812-699-3701

(7)-812-550-2146

(7) -951-689-3-689 (cell)

e-mail: valentin.krasnogorov@google.com 

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