PIZZA MAN
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Julie has had a bad day. She’s just lost her tenth dead-end job in eight years, and it’s Friday night and she doesn’t have a date. Her plan is to trash her troubles at home, assisted by a few dozen beers, a fifth of Jack Daniels, and some loud music. When a neighbor complains about the noise she calls him a childishly obscene name and flashes him from the window. Her mousy roommate, Alice, is also piqued tonight–her married lover has decided to return to his wife, and Alice is now bent on regaining the weight she lost for his sake. As these two continue to throw their respective tantrums, pausing only to insist that the other cease her self-destructive plan immediately, Julie hits upon an appropriate way of venting their anger: they’ll lure an unsuspecting male to their apartment and rape him. “We need somebody attractive–but vulnerable,” she schemes. “Someone we can take advantage of.” When Eddie, the innocent delivery man, arrives with Alice’s pizza, Julie sights her target.
If this premise has not yet made you feel vaguely sick, imagine the same scenario with the sexes reversed. Or imagine it with two large, strong, aggressive women and an underweight 19-year-old boy. Keep in mind that two women armed with even such mundane weapons as kitchen knives could easily coerce one large man. Recall as well that penetration with inanimate objects–broom handles, for example, or the dildo that Alice waves around early in the play–and nonpenetrative sexual acts performed under coercion also constitute rape.
