An excerpt from

"MASOCHISM TANGO"
Ten Minute Play
by Bruce Kane

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"MASOCHISM TANGO"
by Bruce Kane

(A sexy, distant woman sits alone, perhaps smoking a cigarette. A stranger enters. He sees the woman...Slowly he begins to circle her, eyeing her from head to toe and everywhere in between. Finally, he speaks...)

TED: I love you.

BARBARA: What?

TED: I love you.

BARBARA: Are you talking to me?

TED: Yes... I love you.

BARBARA: You don't even know me.

TED: That's why I love you.

BARBARA: If you'll excuse me.

TED: I've been looking for you all my life.

BARBARA: 've heard that line before.

TED: I mean it. You're perfect. Your nose is perfect. You hair is perfect. Your lips are prfect. Your legs are perfect. And... Your breasts are perfect.

BARBARA: 'm going to order lunch now.

TED: need you.

BARBARA: have no need to be needed.

TED: Perfect. I need a woman who has no need to be needed.

BARBARA: Well I don't need a man who needs a woman who has no need to be needed.

TED: I want you.

BARBARA: I'm unobtainable.

TED: That's why I want you.

BARBARA: I beg your pardon.

TED: I only want women I can't have. They never disappoint me.

BARBARA: That must make for long lasting relationships.

TED: Sarcasm in a woman turns me on.

BARBARA: We'd never get along.

TED: Is there someone else?

BARBARA: No.

TED: Are you emotionally involved?

BARBARA: I never get emotionally involved.

TED: Marry me.

BARBARA: I could never marry a man who actually wanted me.

TED: Of course.

BARBARA: A man who wanted me would also need me.

TED: I need you.

BARBARA: I know. That's why you can't have me.

TED: Have you ever been in love?

BARBARA: Hundreds of times.

TED: What happened?

BARBARA: They didn't know I was alive.

TED: Thrilling, isn’t it?

BARBARA: Have you ever been married?

TED: Scarlet Johanson wouldn't return my calls. If I told you I didn't need you, didn't want you and didn't love you, what would you do?

BARBARA: Throw myself at your knees.

(The play continues)

 

 

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