Characters: Godot, a twenty-something girl. She is dressed in a hoodie and yoga pants. Her hair is piled on her head in a messy bun, and she is wearing large brightly colored headphones around her neck.
Set Design: The entire play takes place in a cluttered apartment. There are adjacent rooms: the bedroom and a combined space for a living room and kitchen area. The bathroom is directly off stage left through a door from the bedroom. Clothes litter the floor and the furniture, which is sparse: there is a double bed and a desk with a spinning office chair. Above the desk is a large calendar with a date in the middle triple underlined and punctuated by several exclamation points. The drawers of the dresser, which is on the SR wall of the bedroom, are overflowing with laundry. In the other room, there is a loveseat and a breakfast nook, which separates the stove and refrigerator from the rest of the room. Atop the mess on the bed is an open laptop. The lighting is institutional and too-bright. The breakfast nook holds a large retro-style wired phone with an answering machine next to it.
ACT I
[Lights up on GODOT, who is curled on the one empty corner of her bed. The alarm clock on the desk suddenly blares a midi version of Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go". GODOT slowly sits up. It becomes clear that she is not startled—the alarm did not wake her. She stares at the calendar on the wall without turning off the alarm. After a 30 second clip of the song, the alarm restarts. This happens twice more before GODOT hits the top of the clcok. For five minutes, she does not move. The alarm begins again. This time, GODOT turns the clock upside down and hits a switch. The music dies out mid-chorus.)
(GODOT opens her laptop and plugs in the headphones, putting them properly on the top of her head. She types briefly on her keyboard. The keys clack loudly. She stops, clearly watching something on the screen. She is still for 20 minutes, only moving to occasionally shift her position. The phone rings. Ten more minutes pass and she begins typing again. This time she appears to be surfing the web. After 12 more minutes of this, the phone rings again. Lights go down.)
ACT II
(Lights up again on GODOT, who is spinning in her office chair. She is not specifically propelling herself but rather moving slowly and without purpose. Her headphone cord trails behind her, attached to nothing. After three minutes, she changes direction. The phone is ringing constantly, with only seconds in between the last ring of one set and the first of another. 8 minutes pass. GODOT stops the chair and pulls up one of her socks. She begins spinning again. After two minutes, the calendar suddenly falls off the wall. (Lights go down.)
