DOG EAT DOG
Ars Nova, June 2013
HERE Art Center, August 2013
FEATURING: Adam Blodgett, Anna O'Donoghue, Nate Trinrud & Amir Wachterman
DESIGNS BY: Chris Barlow & Ryan Seelig
We made a play about being fat. I could summarize it here, but I'm too hungry and I need to go get a snack.
ANNA
You know, it actually really bothers me that your weight is a thing for you. Like, you’re just this amazing, strong person. And it’s made you that person. And, I think anything that makes you the type of person you are, which is a person who is loving, and smart, and funny, and creative, and generous with lots of friends, is something that’s good. I mean, it makes me a little angry, to be honest. That you don’t see that.
ADAM
That’s true.
NATE
Good point.
ANNA
And, it’s a reflection on my taste. Like, if I like you and think you are amazing, but you don’t like you—and you think you’re, like—
ADAM
Fat and disgusting…
ANNA
That wasn’t what I was going to say—
ADAM
Oh, no, right—
ANNA
I was going to say, if you think you’re, somehow slightly, um, physically flawed and that somehow makes you a monster or gross or something, then you’re saying I like monsterously flawed gross things, which I do not. And which reflects poorly on ME and my tastes. So, your lack of self esteem is actually sort of a personal attack on me, in a way. And, honestly, Amir. I’m not ok with that.
NATE
Neither am I.
ADAM
Right.
AMIR
Well--
ANNA
And. I’m a woman. So I’m already fighting an uphill battle. Do you know how hard it is--
NATE
I’m gay—
ANNA
That’s different.
NATE
Sure.
ANNA
As a woman, you’re automatically considered less than.
AMIR
Hm.
ANNA
You’re automatically seen as weak. As inferior.
AMIR
But—
ADAM
I think what Anna is trying to say is—(he looks at Adam)
NATE
We all have our “thing”, ya know?
ADAM
Yeah, and like…normally, I’m really unattracted to red heads, especially if they have freckles, but I think Anna’s really pretty. Because I know her. And she’s outside of that standard, you know?
AMIR (that’s sweet)
Mmm
ANNA
Aw, thanks, ADAM.
ADAM
Sure. I mean it. (He puts his arm around her)
NATE
Yeah, Amir, we just…we don’t SEE your weight, you know? We see you.
ANNA
And you’re really funny.
AMIR
ah, no--
NATE
Oh my god. SO funny.
AMIR
Ha, thanks guys.
ADAM
What. A personality.
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