craigslist play.

Based on found text from Craigslist missed connections posts from 2018-2024, the piece explores the anonymity of the internet and the slick, wet, dark desire of online spaces. It is late. It is hot. He is alone. The telephone sings.

SETTING

A bedroom, at night. It is late, almost two or three in the morning. Maybe four. The mid 2000s. 

CHARACTERS

R, writing letters. He works with his hands. In 2006, he is in his late 40s. 

A VOICE ON THE TELEPHONE, answering calls, singing. She has the accent of an Upstate New Yorker.

NOTES:

This play is made with found text from various Craigslist Missed Connections posts, from a fifty to a one-hundred mile radius of zip code 12601 in 2018, and zip code 13788 in 2023. 

R reads the titles of his posts, but he does need to type every post he writes. They are his warm gut, his closest thoughts.