FUBAR
by Karl Gajdusek

Name: FUBAR
Brand: Karl Gajdusek
SKU: 9780573697920
Rating: 3.43 (7 reviews)

Highlights

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90 mins Present Day Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Mary and David, camped out amidst the boxes her abused mother left behind, are unpacking a small San Francisco apartment.

Outside, people self-actualize like crazy, riding the bubble.

When Mary herself is the victim of an unprovoked act of violence, it leads the pair down different paths of addiction and realization: one to the violence itself, one to the abuse of cat tranquilizers.

Meanwhile, Richard is a benevolent drug dealer working on his book while Sylvia wants to use the internet to double her life.

Drugs are consumed, David is tempted, Mary's anger rises, and a gun is found among the house's boxed possessions, as the mood spirals into delirium.

FUBAR is the story of four people trying to recognize the people they are becoming in a time that's totally F.U.B.A.R. (F*cked up Beyond All Recognition).

Press Reviews

"A writer for Showtime's Dead Like Me, Gajdusek has a TV scripter's flair for snappy dialogue, but he also has a much rarer talent for deep characterization and empathy, even when dealing with his most contemptible characters."
— Variety

"The dot-com bubble — well, its splintered psyches — are the subject of the feverish FUBAR, an engrossing evocation of a time (the turn of the millennium) and a place (San Francisco, awash in Web money, pharmaceutical acronyms and online sexual encounters)....the play rings true in feeling if not in plausibility...Mr. Gajdusek has a gift for the humorous moment...the production pulses like an all-night Ecstasy-fueled rave...FUBAR, leaves you with a decent buzz."
— The New York Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
David Early thirties. Mary’s husband. Exec at a nameless internet firm. Had a big exciting kick-ass plan about how this was all supposed to work. This plan should be starting any day now.	male	—	Early thirties. Mary’s husband. Exec at a nameless internet firm. Had a big exciting kick-ass plan about how this was all supposed to work. This plan should be starting any day now.
Richard Mid-thirties. Charismatic, intelligent, drug-dealer. David’s old friend.	—	—	Mid-thirties. Charismatic, intelligent, drug-dealer. David’s old friend.
Sylvia Late twenties. Beautiful San Francisco denizen. Outgoing and adventurous. Trying to have the biggest life possible.	—	—	Late twenties. Beautiful San Francisco denizen. Outgoing and adventurous. Trying to have the biggest life possible.
D.C. Late thirties. Boxer, retired. Old school. Lives in a different San Francisco from the others.	—	—	Late thirties. Boxer, retired. Old school. Lives in a different San Francisco from the others.
Mary Mid-thirties. Doctor. Carries the silence of someone who grew up in another’s shadow. Her mother recently took her own life, so the shadow’s gone. But Mary is still quiet.	female	—	Mid-thirties. Doctor. Carries the silence of someone who grew up in another’s shadow. Her mother recently took her own life, so the shadow’s gone. But Mary is still quiet.