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PREFACE

Since Barbecue and Bootycandy are now published in the same book for the first time, I’d like to give a few thoughts that might be helpful for those who take the leap from reading to producing either of these plays.

I encourage you to trust that the “funny” is there. It is built in, and you don’t have to play it. Instead, just play the truth.

I think of it this way, if the entirety of the experience is “out of the box,” then there is NO “box” from which to come out. I would like to suggest that you “establish the box.”

A Normal Box. Pun absolutely intended.

Simple. Honest. Real interactions are what I have tried to craft using a bunch of mixed nuts who think they are as normal as anyone else walking the planet.

There may be a tendency to turn both of these works into SNL or In Living Color sketches, and while the audience may hoot and holler, they will ultimately miss the painful truth inside both of these pieces. And that truth is, we are all fucked-up.

But fucked-up people rarely believe they are fucked-up . . .

Therefore, let the outrageous live in the language and the given circumstances. Not in the action or design.

Build the box.

Put the play in it.

Watch it break.

—Robert O’Hara

July 2016