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We Will Not Describe the Conversation

  • Eugenie Carabatsos
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Adaptations (Literature), Present Day
  • 1M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573708831

Inspired by a missing scene in Crime and Punishment, We Will Not Describe the Conversation follows a massage therapist whose latest client has come with the news that her estranged brother has committed a heinous crime and is nowhere to be found.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Adaptations (Literature)
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award (2016)
Inspired by a missing scene in Crime and Punishment, We Will Not Describe the Conversation follows a massage therapist whose latest client has come with the news that her estranged brother has committed a heinous crime and is nowhere to be found. The women try to piece together how this happened, while also uncovering their own dark desires and the fear that they will one day turn out like him.
REVIEWS:

"A well structured and gripping surreally real play. Resentment and remorse, these emotions are played against each other in such a way that they twist you round and round till you dare not even breathe, and then when you think it is safe to breathe, it twists you again."

 Cynthia Clay

"From a mysterious sentence to a thrilling play, We Will Not Describe The Conversation is a gripping parable about murder and memory. Eugenie Carabatsos excitingly explores ideas and nuances of repressed femme power in stark contrast to the violent reality of masculinity and the overwhelmingly patriarchal world we live in today."

 T. Reid Kirtley

Premiere Production: We Will Not Describe the Conversation was first produced in the New Works Festival at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015, under the direction of Stephen Eckert. The play premiered professionally at 2cents Theatre INK Fest in 2018, in a production directed by Kristin Towers-Rowles.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 2F

  • DANI - Is a massage therapist because she likes having peoples' necks in her hands, and she likes that she chooses not to hurt them.

  • SONYA - Has something heavy in her bad. But it doesn't weigh her down. It makes her feel strong.

  • ROSS - Latches onto ideas that he thinks explain why he is the way he is and justify his desires.

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    Inspired by a missing scene in Crime and Punishment, We Will Not Describe the Conversation follows a massage therapist whose latest client has come with the news that her estranged brother has committed a heinous crime and is nowhere to be found. The women try to piece together how this happened, while also uncovering their own dark desires and the fear that they will one day turn out like him.

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