Take Ten II by Eric Lane

Author:Eric Lane [Lane, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307491596
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2003-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

MEN'S INTUITION

Itamar Moses

Men's Intuition was first presented as part of the 8xio festival, an evening of short work by NYU and Columbia M.F.A. playwrights, in the PSNBC space at the HERE Center for the Performing Arts, produced by Ethan Youngerman and Winter Miller, on May 10, 2002. Isaac Hurwitz directed the following cast:

WENDELL Cameron Francis

ERIC Johnathan F. McClain

CHARACTERS

WENDELL: A male college student, skinny, rumpled clothing.

ERIC: His roommate, hockey jersey, backwards cap.

SETTING: Eric and Wendell's dorm room, on a large college campus.

TIME: Evening.

(Lights up on a dorm room: two desks, two chairs, two computers, two twin-sized beds, two piles of dirty laundry, two doors, one of which leads to the hallway, and one of which leads to a closet. ERIC, nineteen, hockey jersey, backwards cap, is seated at one of the desks, with papers, pens, a calculator, and an open economics textbook in front of him. WENDELL, also nineteen, in jeans and a button-down, is pacing. ERIC'S desk is by the front door. WENDELL'S desk is by the closet door. A hockey stick leans against the wall by the closet.)

WENDELL: So? Did you figure it out?

ERIC: No. Dude, you gotta give me a clue. It's, like, impossible.

WENDELL: Just keep in mind that every word counts. It's important to employ exacting attention to detail with respect to the given circumstances.

ERIC: Oh. (Pause.) What?

WENDELL: Do you remember what the question was?

ERIC: Oh, um. There's two guards. One always lies, one always tells the truth. And there's, um, two doors. One leads to certain death, and one leads to freedom. And you gotta … I have to figure out … you can ask only one question, and you have to figure out … I don't know.

WENDELL: That's all right, Eric, we can try a different one.

I know it's a little bit difficult to conceive of, after all:

Someone who always lies.

ERIC: Dude, I don't see why I have to do any of these. This isn't even what the test is even about.

WENDELL: Hey, you asked me for help, uh, man, so if you don't really—

ERIC: No, I know, I know, so, like, thanks, or whatever, but could we at least do it faster, though? I gotta get out of here. I'm going out tonight.

WENDELL: A little bit of patience is required for this. Let's do another one.

ERIC: Aww, maaaan …

WENDELL: Three lightbulbs are attached to a wall at eye level.

ERIC: Could you just explain to me how it works? Like, what's in the book?

WENDELL: There is an adjacent room containing three switches, each of which operates one of the lightbulbs. Each room is visually inaccessible from the other.

ERIC: Visually what?

WENDELL: Inaccessible. You can't see one from the other.

ERIC: Wendell, I gotta say—

WENDELL: Do you want to pass this test or not? Listen: Eric—

ERIC: Call me E.

WENDELL: I'm not calling you E.

ERIC: Everyone else does.

WENDELL: I'm not starting to call you E just because your goddamn coach—

ERIC: I don't have a lot of time, okay?

WENDELL: Which is why it's important that we hurry up and—

ERIC: Dude!

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