ABSTRACT
“A hall where public meetings are usually held, a hall peopled with political echoes, the ghosts of banners … It is an untenable structure, a performance straining the limits of the possible: a theoretical debate presented by intellectuals for intellectuals on the sexuality of women.”
1
The stage has three focal points: a blackboard, a screen and slide projector, and another screen for digital images emanating from a computer. There is a table downstage covered with books, from which some of the characters quote. Spotlight on
Xon
, who steps into view and begins, sensuously, to draw a large semi-colon with white chalk on the blackboard. Meanwhile,
ZPupil
(computer eye)
fiddles with the slide projector as
YABA
2
surreptitiously superimposes images on the blackboard and slide projector screen (BLP
3
). The characters—think of them as
X
,
Y
,
Z
—are engaged in a heated discussion about the value of three different sexual organs punctuation marks.
