Charity Case
Charity Case was a short play written and directed by Bianca Navas, and staged for the first time at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama student run theater festival called Playground. It is a two person piece that showcases strained friends, one lavish yet struggling drag queen and one emotionally distant butch lesbian, who get in an argument over owed money. The show is interlaced with lipsync performances and movie scene recreations, to tell its very raw message about outgrowing those we love.
Since it was put up at a theater festival, the show was very much back to the no-budget theatrical bases of scrounging for clothing/furniture, rehearsing on a short time frame, and filling into an existing venue. This was also a process of working with a first time director, so I had to be solid in my Stage Management role and act as a source of stability for an otherwise very new ordeal.
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"...I suppose I'm glad it all happened so fast, the dying. I don’t think I could have managed to stay with him to the end otherwise. On the day he died, I didn’t even recognize him, so thin and pale. I couldn’t even get myself to cry, since I was crying over a stranger. Still, got plenty of sympathy from everyone, which I’m sure he hated. God, what a prick.
[Jamie pauses]
What use do I have for love anyway? What right do I have to try and find it, to moan and groan when I lose it? All my boyfriends were assholes whose names are starting to blend together.
They’re all dead and gone now. They left me, and here I remain, a hoarder..."
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- Charity Case, Scene 2
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Photos By: Victor Yang



