Crush / Slash

by Madison Wetzell

FULL LENGTH: It’s 2009. In their last year of high school, emo kids, Mimi and Ash, negotiate an increasingly troubled friendship while bonding over their shared, Tumblr-based obsession with two school shooters from 1998. A twisted exploration of the frightening rage of teenage girls, the homoerotic bond of joint crushes and fandoms, the perversity of true crime obsession, and the forgotten nightmares of 2000s...

FULL LENGTH: It’s 2009. In their last year of high school, emo kids, Mimi and Ash, negotiate an increasingly troubled friendship while bonding over their shared, Tumblr-based obsession with two school shooters from 1998. A twisted exploration of the frightening rage of teenage girls, the homoerotic bond of joint crushes and fandoms, the perversity of true crime obsession, and the forgotten nightmares of 2000s Internet culture.

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  • Nick Malakhow: Crush / Slash by Madison Wetzell
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    A powerful, disturbing play about the convergence of fandom, friendship, loneliness, and rage. Mimi and Ash have a clearly defined relationship to each other and to the troubled school shooters they idolize. Theatricality is used here in such intriguing ways to illustrate the role-playing and malleable identity play inherent in internet subcultures and juxtapositions heighten some of the most potent moments, such as Mimi's final phone call, meeting Ron vs Ronny, fanfic, and video roleplaying.

    A powerful, disturbing play about the convergence of fandom, friendship, loneliness, and rage. Mimi and Ash have a clearly defined relationship to each other and to the troubled school shooters they idolize. Theatricality is used here in such intriguing ways to illustrate the role-playing and malleable identity play inherent in internet subcultures and juxtapositions heighten some of the most potent moments, such as Mimi's final phone call, meeting Ron vs Ronny, fanfic, and video roleplaying.

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MIMI – Female, 17-18. Very committed to the scene kid look. Tiny, cute, hot-tempered and mean. Bursting with rage in a way no one takes seriously. She tests the limits of what she can get away with and is disappointed when nobody stops her.

ASH – Female, 17-18. Into anime, Invader Zim, DeviantArt and fanfiction.net. Adults call her an “old soul” because she is quiet, obedient, and good at minimizing her own needs. Prone to long bouts of daydreaming and drawn to forbidden knowledge as her form of secret rebellion.

RONNY/RON – Male, 18 / 29. Future/former school shooter. Odd, explosive, not nearly as badass as he thinks he is. Ronny and Ron at different ages could be played by different actors.

TYLER – Male, 17. Future school shooter. Intense and high-strung with philosophical pretensions. Sadder and less self-assured than Ronny.