Play 174: Stereotypical

CHARACTERS
VINCENT, 17
ERIKA, 17

(They are sitting around a table, she is reading a stack of papers. She puts them down.)

VINCENT
So?

ERIKA
I really liked it.

VINCENT
(Slightly surprised.)
Really?

ERIKA
Yeah, very realistic.

VINCENT
So it wasn’t too stereotypical?

ERIKA
No, not at all.

VINCENT
That’s good.

ERIKA
I thought the woman was really realistic.

VINCENT
(Quite surprised.)
Seriously?

ERIKA
Yeah.

VINCENT
That’s kind of funny.

ERIKA
Why?

VINCENT
I thought she was really stereotypical.

ERIKA
Really?

VINCENT
I mean, she flips out over a random kind of insignificant thing.

ERIKA
I don’t know, to me it just seemed realistic.

(Vincent laughs.)

ERIKA
What?

VINCENT
I just find it really funny that I wrote something that I thought was being stereotypical and maybe even kind of sexist even, and then you not only don’t think of that, but thought it was accurate.

ERIKA
Well, it is. If you haven’t learned it yet, women are crazy.

VINCENT
I’m starting to get that idea.

ERIKA
It’s odd you don’t seem to have thought that though, I mean, I thought you had a pretty good grasp of the female mind when I read the story.

VINCENT
I guess.

ERIKA
I thought so at least.

VINCENT
Cool.

(Beat.)

I never realized all I had to do to accurately portray people was use blatant stereotypes.

(They laugh.)

(Blackout.)