FLOOZY by Amy Tofte
Vee works hard to be a nice girl. She currently lives with her best friend and free-spirit, Bista, after walking out on her cheating boyfriend. Kevion, Bista’s over-sexed and food-obsessed lover, is a constant fixture in Bista’s apartment and eventually makes his move on the uptight Vee. As Vee careens toward developing real feelings for Kevion—based on one night of really outstanding, badly needed sex—she...
Vee works hard to be a nice girl. She currently lives with her best friend and free-spirit, Bista, after walking out on her cheating boyfriend. Kevion, Bista’s over-sexed and food-obsessed lover, is a constant fixture in Bista’s apartment and eventually makes his move on the uptight Vee. As Vee careens toward developing real feelings for Kevion—based on one night of really outstanding, badly needed sex—she learns of Bista’s involvement with yet another man, an older and rather dangerous man named Bard.
Bista, pregnant with Bard’s baby, learns of Kevion’s tryst with Vee and convinces Kevion the baby is his, re-staking her claim on Kevion’s affection. Unfortunately, Bard has his own concerns about Bista having his baby and returns to kill her, making it appear as a botched, self-inflicted abortion. When Bard returns to the scene of the crime to retrieve an over-looked piece of evidence, Kevion stumbles upon the murderer and is also killed. As Vee attempts to reconcile her roller coaster of love, sex and betrayal…she eventually goes insane.
Stylistically, the play starts as a broad farce (it could even have a TV laugh track) then shifts into a bloody, slasher-B-movie complete with blood and the walking dead who terrorize Vee and push her over the edge. The play investigates the relationship between humor and fear using suspense, dramatic irony and sexuality.