La Negrita Chronicles
La Negrita and Her Kind and Gentle Saviours
Scene V: I Thought White Niggas Were Too Scared To Fuck Me
LA NEGRITA
(Hears someone come into the bathroom) BOUKIE?
BUDDY JUNIOR, JR.
Ohhhhhhhh, we slapping couchies now? Feeling better now? Gucci sweater now?
LA NEGRITA
(Yelling.) BUDDY, GET THE HELL OUT!
BUDDY JUNIOR, JR.
Or what? (Evil grin)
LA NEGRITA
BUDDY, what happened to you? What is wrong with you?
BUDDY
What’s wrong with me?
LN
You’re never like this!
BUDDY JUNIOR, JR.
Well, I’m drunk! (Downs some more liquor.)
LA NEGRITA
Stop it!
BUDDY
And, I’m pissed off you know. How DARE you walk out on me?!
LN
I—I’ll be your girl! It will only be you. Even with you acting like this.
BUDDY
Oh, now you want me!
LN
Please—I do! I still want to be with you.
BUDDY
I tell you I love you,that I want to be with you, and then you just leave me? Nobody LEAVES me! I am BUDDY JUNIOR, JR.! (beats chest.)
LN
I want to be with you, I do.
Beat.
I want for us to truly be together.
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BUDDY |
LN |
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It's too late. |
I think I love you too. |
BUDDY
Well, I don’t love you anymore.
LN
But you told me you loved me just two scenes ago…
BUDDY
Bitch, I don’t want you!
LN
We can still be together—
BUDDY
Not with you dressed like THIS. You know I HATE when you dress like a slut. You know it makes me mad.
LN
Please, not like this!
BUDDY
(ripping off her skirt) Listening to the team talk about how badly they want fuck you—-well they won’t want you after I’m through!
LA NEGRITA
BUDDY, give me the bottle! (La Negrita tries to grab bottle.)
BUDDY JUNIOR, JR.
This bottle? (Finishes entire bottle and uses it to hit La Negrita over the head. Bottle breaks. Blood is everywhere, matting her weave. Put You in a Room by Nicki Minaj starts to play in background.)
blackout
Frania G. Romulus was born in Boston, Massachusetts. As a child Romulus loved to create, perform and act. She began playwriting in elementary school. As the years passed she traveled and competed as a saxophonist in her high school music assembles. She was reminded of her gift of writing while an undergrad at Clark University. She matriculated with a degree in Psychology and Performing Arts.
Romulus’ work portrays her experiences as a woman of color at a predominantly white institution. Her raw emotional honesty, uncomfortable dialogue, and satirical style won the attention of Playfest then AS220, enabling her piece to be on production as well as earning her an artist residency.
