FACADE STAGEPLAY Tue Feb 19 21 12 56 2013
GRACE Trip, when are you going to get rid of this?
TRIP What, Grace... this?
GRACE Yes, you know how I feel about it -
TRIP I know I know I'll do it right now, alright?!
GRACE You know I've had to ask you about this several -
TRIP Get off my back! I'll get rid of it in just a minute!
GENEVRA SEX
GRACE Fine, Trip... fine...
GENEVRA hello?
(Trip opens the front door.)
TRIP Genevra!
TRIP Hey! I thought I heard someone out here! Great to see you! It's - (interrupted)
TRIP Uh...
GENEVRA WOAH
TRIP Y - yeah, yeah...
TRIP Well come on in...
(GENEVRA hugs trip.)
TRIP Uh, let me go get Grace...
TRIP (unintelligable arguing)
GENEVRA asshole
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA closes the front door.)
TRIP (unintelligable arguing)
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA opens the front door.)
TRIP (unintelligable arguing)
(GENEVRA picks up the red wine bottle.)
GRACE Genevra,
GRACE Hi! How are you? Oh it's so nice to see you, it feels like it's been forever!
TRIP Yeah, it has been a long time.
GRACE By the way, you look fabulous!
(GENEVRA puts down the red wine bottle.)
GENEVRA aw thanks you too
GRACE Uh...
GRACE Well, come in, make yourself at home...
GENEVRA sorry
GRACE Uh...
TRIP I'm gonna fix us some drinks.
TRIP Oh and I've got these fancy new cocktail shakers I'm itching to try out.
(Trip closes the front door.)
GENEVRA NEIN!
TRIP Let's have something fun,
TRIP like margaritas?
TRIP Uh, well, I think I'll just make us all margaritas.
GRACE No no,
GRACE Genevra, maybe you'd like some juice, or a mineral water?
TRIP uhh...
GENEVRA juice please
GRACE Okay, Trip, that's what she wants!
TRIP Alright, fine, fine...
TRIP I keep my bar fully stocked with the best money can buy, so we can always do it another time.
TRIP Grace, you don't want to drink anything special tonight either, am I right?
GRACE I'm happy to just have what our guest is having.
TRIP Great.
GRACE So, Genevra, I'm hoping you can help me understand where I went wrong with my new decorating, ha ha.
TRIP Oh, Grace, let's not do that.
TRIP Alright Grace, yours is ready.
GRACE Thanks.
GRACE So, about my decorating...
GRACE (little sigh) With this room I was trying for a kind of post modern style...
TRIP Well yeah, I think that comes across.
GRACE but it is clearly just not happening. This is - (interrupted)
(GENEVRA hugs trip.)
TRIP Oh, heh, you're hugging me...
GRACE How nice of you. Isn't it good to see our friend after so long?
TRIP (clears throat)
GRACE I'm sure I can return most of this, and try to start over again on this room...
GENEVRA can I have my juice please?
(GENEVRA hugs trip.)
TRIP Oh, yeah, you know, I think I'll fix you a real drink in not too long...
(GENEVRA picks up a player's drink.)
TRIP See Grace, no one is complaining about your decorating, there's - (interrupted)
TRIP Oh, ha ha, I -
GRACE Oh, well... you seem to remember how much Trip likes getting attention. - (interrupted)
GENEVRA thanks for the juice
TRIP Alright, good, heh heh, maybe you're on my side tonight after all, ha ha.
GENEVRA apples
GENEVRA ? side?
GRACE Oh let's not bore ourselves with my decorating anymore, I'm redoing the room this week, that's all there is to it.
GRACE Anyway...
GRACE Trip, it's okay if we disagree in front of our friend -
TRIP Disagreeing?! We're NOT disagreeing.
(GENEVRA puts down a player's drink.)
TRIP We're not.
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA opens the front door.)
TRIP Oh, Genevra, I thought you might like this photo I just put up from our recent trip to Italy.
GRACE Uhh, it's a beautiful picture of the Italian countryside, of course she'll like it!
(Grace sips her Grace's drink.)
TRIP Grace, I know you don't like it, but our friend might.
GRACE (short petulant sigh)
GRACE By the way, anybody, join me on the couch if you like.
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA closes the front door.)
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA closes the front door.)
TRIP Um... uhh, Now, Genevra, in one word, what does this picture say to you?
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA closes the front door.)
GRACE Say to you... say to you... yes, good question, good question. - (interrupted)
GENEVRA rape
TRIP Mmm... no...
GRACE Wait, what's wrong with that? That's a perfectly fine answer!
TRIP (little sigh) No just take a look, this says...
GRACE How about controlling.
TRIP God, I want us to go see the Italian art she likes, so I'm controlling. (little sigh) Just one word for this.
GENEVRA rape
TRIP Grace stayed behind - (interrupted)
TRIP Romance! No it says... romance...!
GRACE Romance? Ha, in our marriage, that's just a code word for manipulation.
TRIP Grace, it'd been such a long time since we'd... had a chance to -
GRACE You planned that trip without even asking me if I wanted to go!
GRACE Genevra, that's not the first time he's done that!
TRIP (annoyed sigh)
GRACE And you knew I planned to attend my friend's art show that weekend!
GRACE A very good friend from college had a gallery show of his new paintings that weekend, and I missed it!
TRIP What?
TRIP Ahh, this is bullshit!
GRACE Ahh, no, you're full of shit!
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA opens the front door.)
GRACE Goddamn romance...
GRACE Trip, our whole marriage, you're so... controlling!
TRIP (little impatient sigh) Genevra, can you believe this?
(GENEVRA picks up the red wine bottle.)
TRIP (frustrated sigh)
GENEVRA BAI
TRIP What? What - what are you saying to me? What?
TRIP Genevra, where are you going? Don't leave, we need your help here!
TRIP Goddamn manipulation...
TRIP You never listen to me! You don't believe anything I say! You just don't listen.
GRACE Oh, God...!
GENEVRA COME WINE TO MY BED ROOM
TRIP Genevra, hey, don't - don't go! You can't start this - (interrupted)
TRIP Genevra, no, I'm not fixing you a drink right now!
GRACE Goddammit...
GRACE Wait, you're leaving? Now?
TRIP What? Are you talking about me in there?
GRACE I'm not talking to you!
GENEVRA soorry
GRACE Genevra, we're not normally like this, I don't know what's going on...
(GENEVRA puts down the red wine bottle.)
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA closes the front door.)
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA closes the front door.)
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA closes the front door.)
(GENEVRA knocks on the front door.)
(GENEVRA closes the front door.)
GRACE uhh...
GRACE Look, if you want to leave...
(GENEVRA comforts grace.)
GRACE Genevra, from what you said before, about marriage... I think that tells us something about Trip.
TRIP Oh, we're talking about me, are we?
GRACE What?
TRIP Grace, even though you're now a creative director at work, and even though you redecorate the apartment all the time, the truth is... - (interrupted)
TRIP Genevra, come on, I don't feel like fixing drinks at this moment!
GENEVRA I can't grab my juice...
GRACE God, Genevra, I'm getting really tired of talking about Trip's stuff, God... (frustrated sigh) - (interrupted)
(GENEVRA picks up the red wine bottle.)
GRACE Genevra, (frustrated sigh)
(GENEVRA puts down the red wine bottle.)
(GENEVRA picks up the red wine bottle.)
(GENEVRA puts down the red wine bottle.)
(GENEVRA picks up the red wine bottle.)
(GENEVRA puts down the red wine bottle.)
TRIP No we need - we need to talk about us both, not just one.
GRACE Trip, can't you see, it's the way you speak, the way you talk to me...!
TRIP What, I'm not allowed to be angry?
(GENEVRA picks up the red wine bottle.)
(GENEVRA puts down the red wine bottle.)
GRACE Genevra, (annoyed sigh)
(GENEVRA picks up a player's drink.)
TRIP Let's keep talking about us both, not just one of us.
(GENEVRA puts down a player's drink.)
TRIP Grace, we don't - we don't have to do this... things are okay, we can just -
GRACE Genevra, I can't stand the pretending anymore... I can't take it! - (interrupted)
(GENEVRA picks up a Trip's drink.)
(GENEVRA puts down a Trip's drink.)
(GENEVRA picks up the advice ball.)
GRACE All this stuff... mmm... Having all this money makes us so happy. We're so happy, aren't we Trip?
(The advice ball reads, "Could Be")
TRIP Jesus, what do you want! Now you're unhappy because we're too well off?
TRIP Genevra, isn't it - isn't that ridiculous?
(GENEVRA shakes the advice ball.)
(The advice ball reads, "Why Not")
(GENEVRA puts down the advice ball.)
TRIP Well, I mean, Grace, what do you want?
GRACE Nothing! I want nothing!
GENEVRA trip...your an asshole
TRIP Okay, Genevra, you know what? I think you should leave.
TRIP Genevra, we're through messing around, you've got to go.
GENEVRA GOOD I HATE IT HERE
(Trip opens the front door.)
TRIP We'll be fine - you should just go.
GENEVRA YOU GAY
(Trip closes the front door.)
GENEVRA ASSHOLE