“I didn’t realize I was supposed to know how to do everything by my second rodeo

seems like a very low amount of rodeos”

—David Griner

(twitter post Sept 27, 2018)

Life, like a Rodeo, doesn’t always go as planned. There are bumps and falls, and clowns along the way. Distractions designed to keep us from facing our fears and our families.

Two CLOWNS each sets down at a laptop or a keyboard, cell phone, or an old Underwood typewriter or a pen and paper far upstage in the shadows. They begin to write as the lights shift:

(At rise:

A small apartment.

HAYLEE enters aided by DON. HAYLEE is freshly returning home from surgery (whether with her arm in a sling or her leg in a brace is open to each production’s discretion). DON is laden down with prescriptions, ice packs, a hospital bag containing any of Haylee’s unworn clothes. fast food dinner, and street vendors flowers. DON helps HAYLEE to a chair.)

HAYLEE: yeah, I got it.

DON: You got it?

HAYLEE: I got it. I’m good.

(HAYLEE is seated. DON also sets down some of her things – within her reach. Awkward moment.)

HAYLEE: Thank you, I’m good. You can go home now.

DON: shuddup (Moving toward the kitchen:) I’m gonna put these in a—you have a vase?

Carolina Rodriguez

Michael Perlmutter

Brian Robert Harris

Joyce Ha

written by Michael Perlmutter

directed by Ann Noble

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