Sept

In which a lover from the previous piece is seen with a new lover.

Une Histoire des affaires de Phoebe Tobiason
(A History of the Affairs of Phoebe Tobiason)

Presented Out of Order

Play the Home Game! Try and Place the Affairs in Order. For Bonus Points, assign the correct age (or age range) to each affair. Yes, there are right answers.

LA HISTOIRE

Phoebe Tobiason is born, and at some point, all of the following happens.

Six

In which a lover from the previous piece is seen with a new lover.

FADE-IN

A series of shots of college campuses. They are clearly all different college campuses. There is a Floridian campus with inherited Spanish architecture, a Southwestern stucco landscape, a postmodernist steel-and-glass wonderland, a utilitarian brown community college, a Bostonian Ivy League campus, the famous porticos of Jefferson's University of Virginia, a city-bound campus located in downtown skyscrapers.

Follow with shots of multiple dorm rooms. They suggest inhabitants religious, deviant, nerdy, academic, spartan, girlish, macho, foreign, artistic, messy, clean, in surroundings of decaying cinder blocks, expansive carpets and wood paneling, ready-made drywall, with bunk beds, stacked beds, single beds, paired beds.

The various images recycle and speed up until a blur, like on a slot machine, and at a seemingly random moment they stop on a

CLOSE-UP

of Charlotte Perkins, aged nineteen, biting her lip nervously.

Cinq

In which a lover from the previous piece is seen with a new lover.

ANDY
Charlotte you hate your life.

CHARLOTTE
I have things! I have hopes and dreams!

ANDY
Your stepmomma takes your money your older brother pinches you the cute boys at school they send you notes asking you to go out with them to prom but then when you say yes they say ha ha it was a joke we got you again Charlotte and Father Markey falls asleep at your confession.

CHARLOTTE
Well what do you think I hope and dream about?

ANDY
Me!