Introduction 101

Welcome to the play: "Writing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies."  Please watch the introduction video below, and then view the character descriptions as well as the show order below.  I hope you enjoy yourself!  Rebecca

“Writing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies”

By

Rebecca Lea McCarthy

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CHARACTERS

In order of appearance

Clown: a silent commedia clown whose face is eschewed to the right, and sometimes to the left depending on what side of the bed she gets up on. She is preparing to go out on a date. Beauty products baffle her.

Judy Winthrup: is a character we see throughout the play, as a teenager, mother, and then women entering menopause. She has a vivid imagination.

Lindsay (AKA “The Poet”): is a highly educated Poet, well known on the Seattle Slam Poetry Circuit.

Professor Mary Margaret Reynolds (AKA Dr. Legs): Holds a Ph.D. but we are not entirely sure what in—she professes it is in “compareology,” whatever that means. We know she moonlights for Planned Parenthood, but beyond that her education is a mystery. The good professor sports a rather poor British accent. She adopted the accent in order to give her research in compareology more credence. However, it is apparent that she has watched too many episodes of Julia Child’s cooking show.

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Contents

Part One: When We Were Young and Clueless

1:1 “The Date.”
1:2 “The Fitting” or ”The Trial of Judy Winthrup, Part 1.”
1:3 “Diaphragm Blues.”

Part Two: When We Were Old Enough to Know Better, but not Older Enough to Foresee Stuff.

2:1  “The Lecture.”

2:2  “Asshole in the Ad.”

2:3  “The Buddha-Man.”

Part Three: Are we our Bodies? Our Age?

3:1  “The Mommy” or “The Trial of Judy Winthrup, Pt. 2.”
3:2  "Breasts: How Proudly They Wave."
3:3  “Menopause” or “The Trial of Judy Winthrup, Pt. 3.”