La Negrita Chronicles
La Negrita and Her Kind and Gentle Saviours
Scene VI: LA NEGRITA AND HER ARMY OF GAYS!
(BOUKIE knocks frantically on FLAMING FILIPPE’S door.)
FLAMING FILIPPE
Come in!!!
(FLAMING FILIPPE sits at his crown with a facemask of Vivaporu and semen. He is adorned in a fur coat and Princess Tiara on his head.)
(BOUKIE enters.)
FLAMING FILIPPE
Boukie! My favorite bisexual friend! Sit, sit! (leads friend to seat.)
Beat.
You’re just in time for my tea party!!! (pours BOUKIE a cup.)
BOUKIE
Fine china.
FLAMING
I know!
Beat.
So what brings you here this fine evening? Honey boo boo, you look BEAT.
BOUKIE
Flamer, would you mind if I crash here tunight?
FLAMING
Of course Boo, I LOVE sleep overs!! (getting excited and swirling about.)
Beat.
Will LA NEGRITA be joining us?
(BOUKIE spits out her tea.)
FLAMING
Speaking of which, I haven’t seen that little nappy headed ray of sunshine in quite some time!
Beat.
Now tell me, how is she?
BOUKIE
A whore.
FLAMING
BOUKIE! (admonishes friend.) Now don’t you DARE speak of my dearest friend is such a way! (shrieks.)
(Knock at door.)
FLAMING
Coming! (says to BOUKIE.) Oh, I am OH so popular!
(enters ESAU.)
BOUKIE
What’s up ESAU. (Esau goes over kisses Boukie on cheek. FLAMING comes towards ESAU to kiss him as well.)
ESAU
No homo dawg. (says to HOMO.)
FLAMING
Fine.
Beat.
Tea?
ESAU
Nah.
BOUKIE
You good?
ESAU
Nah. Actually BOUKIE, have you seen my sier?
BOUKIE
Only in the evening.
ESAU
What’s that supposed to mean?
BOUKIE
Your sister is a thot.
ESAU
Hey, don’t talk about my sister like that!
FLAMING
Told you. Not nice. (points finger.)
BOUKIE
Yo Flamer, do you know why I’m here?! LA NEGRITA turned our fuckin dorm room into a fuckin brothel! Last night I caught her with coach!
ESAU
Coach would never! (getting defensive!)
BOUKIE
Ask her.
(knock on door. LA NEGRITA stumbles into friend’s home drunk.)
LA NEGRITA
It’s a party, it’s a party, it’s a party!!
BOUKIE
La Negrita, where have you been? I haven’t seen you since Fight Club. And that was about a week ago, week agoooooooo.
LA NEGRITA
You’re acting like you and I are a couple. God BOUKIE, stawp! Stawp being so in love with me!
BOUKIE
(says quietly and wounded.) You’re drunk.
LA NEGRITA
You all want it. You, and BUDDY, the team, coach. YOU ALL WANT ME!!!
ESAU
Hey, that’s gross Negrita, don’t talk like that!
BOUKIE
LA NEGRITA, you are drunk. On a Tuesday…
LA NEGRITA
The club’s goin' up, on a Tuesday...
ESAU
Yo, I heard you’re a thot. I’m telling mom.
LA NEGRITA
NO! I’m not That Hoe Over There. (reaches to grab brother, but stumbles over drunk in her stupor)
FLAMING
Girl, you sloppy. You look like a page ripped right out of Ratchet Jones’ Diary! (laughing at LA NEGRITA)
ESAU
Yo, I can’t stay here and watch my big sister act like this.
Beat.
Take care of her? (Looks at friends.)
BOUKIE & FLAMING
Of course.
ESAU
(towards LA NEGRITA.) You’re supposed to be my older sister! I—I look up to you! You’re the reason I came to this KKK school…joined the team. I just wanted to make you proud…but it seems like you’re the only disappointment in the family.
LA NEGRITA
ESAU! (reaches to touch brother.)
ESAU
Don’t touch me!
Beat.
(spits out words.) Hoe. (Exits.)
BOUKIE
What the fuck is wrong with you??!
LA NEGRITA
I’m just---I’m just tired. It’s all. (says more quietly. Trying to center herself, trying to get the room to stop spinning.)
FLAMING
Of course you’re tired mi Negress. Cucumber Sandwich? (offers LA NEGRITA cucumber sandwich. Flaming takes a bite.)
Beat.
Whoring around is HUNGRY work!
LA NEGRITA
No. I’m just tired. BUDDY---
BOUKIE
No, LA NEGRITA! I WARNED you!!
Beat.
You sound like you’re complaining. I’m really fucking tired of all this complaining! Everybody’s always complaining about their fucking relationships, something I know absolutely nothing about. It only reminds me of how lonely I am: “alone”, is all I know. (looks angrily) So here you are complaining about another stallion member of the hockey team wanting to fuck you, and you’re complaining? Like what the fuck, at least you have a man who wants you, MEN who want you. The whole fucking team is always talking about you.
LA NEGRITA
Shut up BOUKIE.
Beat.
You BOUKIE, you’re cute, shy, high-yella. And high-faggot, and boys LOVEEEEEEE that shit!!! “2 girls and 1 cup”? That took the cyberworld by storm!
Beat.
BUDDY doesn’t want me. BUDDY didn’t want me. He just wanted me as his property. ‘Open relationship.’
FLAMING FILLIPPE
Yo, why all these niggas be in open relationships and I can’t even get in one relationship? It’s fucking wack. Like fuck all these open ass relationships. Just date us. Ugh. Just like…whose cock do I have to suck around here to get a ring on my finger? (wiggles fingers) Or at least find someone who wants me to suck theirs. Like am I not even good enough to be receptacle to your cum?
BOUKIE
(looks up at FLAMING.) And what’s the point of being this beautiful, if I’m always alone?—What-s the..what’s the point!?
Beat.
Isn’t it sad to be this beautiful but so unhappy?
FLAMING
Hear here. (brings out pink handkerchief to wipe his tears)
(LA NEGRITA goes over to console friend.)
LA NEGRITA
BOUKIE, the reason you haven’t found anyone isn’t because you’re too gay, or too thick. Because you’re beautiful, and smart, incredibly talented and oh so loving.
Beat.
FLAMING you’re just single right now because you just haven’t met that person yet that can match you in all those qualities. You deserve a man just as powerful as you. These mothafuckas you’ve met thus far just aren’t on your level.
BOUKIE
And you LA NEGRITA, what happened to you? (looks up at friend.) Like…what happened to you? At the club?
Beat.
Something is wrong La Negrita. It’s written all over your Negress face… You’ve just changed so much since then. All of a sudden you and BUDDY JUNIOR, JR. won’t even look each other in the eyes. You won’t talk about it, and I SAW YOU fucking coach!!
(LN refuses to engage, starts walking away. Getting up gathering things blah blah blah.)
LA NEGRITA
I don’t want to talk about it. What do you want me to say BOUKIE? I am unhappy, okay? I am not happy.
BOUKIE
Why do you let your happiness be determined by men? Why do you depend on men to be the cause of your happiness? Don’t ever let a man be the cause of your downfall.
LA NEGRITA
Fuck you motherfuckers for talking all this shit. I can’t do this FUCK YOU. (starts walking away.)
FLAMING
LA NEGRITA. We’re saying this because we’re your friends. We don't want anything to happen to you!
LA NEGRITA
(starts to laugh HYSTERICALLY) Don’t want anything to happen to me?
Beat.
BAHAHAH. Well it’s too fuckin late motherfuckers!
Beat.
You really want to know what happened at the club? You really wanna know what happened to me?
Beat.
BUDDY happened to me.
Beat.
I woke up, bloody, unconscious. Dress ripped with BUDDY on top of me.
BOUKIE
Menina!
LA NEGRITA
So my solution? I fuck. I fuck till I’m numb. I fuck till I no longer feel pleasure or pain. I fuck until they forget my name. I fuck until I forget. Cuz with every fuck, I stop missing BUDDY JUNIOR, JR. just a little less. I fuck people I don’t even give a fuck about. Cuz that way, I’ll never fall in love.
BOUKIE
Menina.(consoles friend.) God menina, I feel terrible, I’m sorry. I had no idea. I had no right to yell at you. It was my fault. I should have been there. I’m your friend. I---
LA NEGRITA
I dunno Boukie. I’m confused. After what he did to me, why do I still want him? Maybe I was asking for it.
FLAMING
Menina? What the fuck? What do you mean? It’s not your fault!
LA NEGRITA
Maybe…maybe he doesn’t remember…Maybe he was too drunk…maybe it was a black out…BUDDY he could never…He would never…There’s no way he meant it! He said he loved me…
Beat.
No, maybe it is…Maybe it’s the way I dress. Maybe I need a butt reduction…If I had a pancake ass..
FLAMING
Pancake ass? This is SERIOUS menina.
LA NEGRITA
Nobody takes me seriously, I’m just a character that people use for their enjoyment.
BOUKIE
YOU don’t deserve this. You’ve been through enough already. You still love white people even when they treat you like shit And you always smile-- but I haven’t seen that smile in a while. I just--- (chokes). Blancos de mierda!!!
LA NEGRITA
How could BUDDY have done that to me? I thought he cared about me… Maybe he never cared about me, maybe it was all a scam. Maybe he just pretended to love me.
Beat.
How am I supposed show my face in the caf? Or anywhere on campus? What if I see an athlete… I can never escape!
BOUKIE
Don’t worry about that manita. We will cross that bridge when we come to it. WE can go the caf together, you, me, KIKI, ESAU, FLAMING FILLIPPE hell, heck, even MONICA VANE can come if you want! You’re not alone manita. What you need to be concentrating on from here on out, is not settling for these douchebagge assholes with these D3 tendencies. You need to stop looking and be found.
Beat.
You’re not alone manita. I’m lonely too. I’m searching. But we will be found, and when s/he comes they will tell us our beauty blows their mind, and stains their soul. They will tell us that without us they are nothing. We made them something.
LA NEGRITA
I miss him even though he hurt me. Every time I think of him I feel pathetic. Because every time I think of him, I’m reminded that he doesn’t think of me. But I’m a sick bastard for thinking we are meant to be together eventually.
FLAMING
You’re not sick LA NEGRITA, you’re just hurting.
LA NEGRITA
But was he always that person all along? Or was I so blinded by love, that I saw what I wanted to see? Or did he fool me into showing me what he wanted me to see?
BOUKIE
People change and it sucks.
LA NEGRITA
I feel like I’ll always be alone forever.
Beat.
I feel like my stomach has been filled with asphalt and I’ve been thrown to the bottom of the sea. I’m drowning, and no one will save me. I’m drowning in his love—except he doesn’t love me. Or maybe he did love me. Isn’t that what love does? Makes us all a little crazy?
FLAMING
Well sweetie, you’re safe now. Mama’s gonna take care of this Oppressor for you, don’t worry. White people are not worth your tears. White people will never love you as much as you love them…Have I taught you nothing? FUCK white people! They just want your pee to pass drug tests…
LA NEGRITA
Did his mother not teach him to be careful to make a women cry, for God counts her every tear?
FLAMING
I DON’T LIKE UGLY PEOPLE!
LA NEGRITA
BUDDY isn’t ugly…. (awkward silence.) Is he??
FLAMING
(Quickly changes subject.) Something has to me done. (Picks up phone). Hello, Rainbow Coalition? We have an emergency! Yes, La Negrita has been oppressed. Yes, Uh-huh. Come at once!
LA NEGRITA
I just want to have enough faith in the white race that one day I will find my non-oppressor.
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.
