BRUTALITY / DIVORCE: Two Plays

by Gustavo Ott, Heather McKay (Translator)

TWO BRUTALITY (4W, 3M) and DIVORCE (1M, 1F). In BRUTALITY a police officer is suspended while all of his paranoias are investigated; two women try to discover how love works in a nightclub called Pulse; a school bus driver tries to control her tendency to be struck by lightning; a high school couple prepares to lead the white minority resistance movement; a Latino without papers disguises himself as an African American to feel safe; and an Arab immigrant fights her Glass Delusion. In DIVORCE, after 20 years of marriage, Tina and Ben Galloway are in the middle of a divorce. Ben faults Tina and her viral e-zine, which has made her the most hated blogger in the U.S. Tina lays it on Ben, a composer of video game music, scorned for plagiarism. Also, each blames the other for driving Nicole, their seventeen year old, away. As they divide their marital assets and set aside money for Nicole, the police call with shocking news.

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 7, 2019