EXCERPT FROM THE PLAY ALL ADVENTUROUS WOMEN DO a play about a small-town attempt for big-world freedom The names of the girls and the names of the scenes are identical; each girl has a scene with her name: Ana, Ena, Ina, Ona, Una, Lea, Mia,
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There are no boys in the play, or parents, or teachers, or health workers, except where dialogues with them are written out. The play consists of monologues spoken by girls, except where dialogue and stage directions are written out. The truth about the case, which Mr. N.B., the National Coordinator for Reproductive Health of the Republic of Srpska, appropriately summarized in the sentence: We had a case in which secondary school students from a small town went on a school trip which lasted about five days, and when they returned, after some time it became apparent that seven of the female students had gotten pregnant during the trip is not contained in this play and no one should expect to find it here. ( ) – denotes dialogue which, in most cases, is simply a repetition of information already incorporated into the monologues themselves; however, since idle girly conversation is probably more interesting to stage than a bunch of dense monologues, I use this symbol to mark places where the adventurous director might exercise this option. Text in italics denotes a stage direction. The number of performers reading/performing the text onstage can vary from one to indefinite, depending on the concept of the performance. The story takes place here and now, in the theater, in the full warm mouths of seven girls, as well as in seven girls’ full warm wombs. 39