Playwright Mathilde Dratwa, 2024 at WP Theater

 Playwright Mathilde Dratwa, 2024

WP Theater

Dirty Laundry

Scenic Design: Raul Abrego

option 1:

CHORUS:

There are two moments in her life

that cracked her open so wide

you could see inside her. 

The first time it happened, if you were there,

you saw the child that had been inside of her come outside of her

and you saw the placenta come out and the blood and the tissue —

human tissue —

let's not talk about tissue right now.

option 2

CHORUS:

About a month later, her son Luca asks, 

Where’s Bubba?

That’s what he called her. Bubba. 

She doesn’t want to say

in heaven

because she doesn’t believe in that

so she says,

in my heart. She’s in my heart. 

He takes it more literally than she expected,

because he knows babies come from tummies

He knows that he was in hers. That he came out of there. 

He pulls on her shirt to expose the skin and he asks, 

How did Bubba get in there?

And she doesn’t know what to say. And he asks, 

Can I give Bubba a kiss? 

and he kisses her chest. Right on her heart.