BOB

It is said that Bob was born on Valentine's Day in the bathroom of a White Castle Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. It is said that Bob's birthmother, whose name was Helen, was feeling particularly lonely and depressed on this holiday and felt that only a certain greasy cuisine would soothe her ache.

It is said that Helen was unaware of the Valentine's Day tradition of the usually more subdued White Castle restaurant to adorn their tables with candles and cloths and other romantic miscellany and that the restaurant would be packed with couples flaunting their couplehood.

Nor was Helen aware of how severe her physiological reaction would be to witnessing this vast scene of public love until, after eating much faster than she intended, she rushed into the bathroom, pushed to urinate and her wombic fluids erupted onto the bathroom floor.

Nor was she aware how quickly labor could be sometimes until five minutes after her water broke, Bob would emerge quickly and fiercely from her magic chamber.

Bob traces the highly unusual life of Bob. From his modest beginnings, born and abandoned in the bathroom of a White Castle Restaurant, found by a waitress convinced by a fortune cookie that she will one day be mother to a great man, to his childhood on the road in a Chevy Malibu, Bob grows up to be a man on the outskirts of America, living large on its discarded treasures. But Bob, as confused as he is, must one day fulfill his destiny. Will America embrace him, or will they take him down? A side-splitting social satire that roasts the American dream, and celebrates its detritus.

Bob was commissioned by South Coast Repertory.
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PRODUCTION HISTORY

• NewScripts Reading at SCR October, 2009
• 'Rough' reading at Playwrights Foundation, SF January 2010
• Out Loud reading at Ars Nova, New York City

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