Taboo

Tom Lycos, Stefo Nantsou

• Publisher: Currency Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781760621391
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

Taboo is both a warning to young people who might make themselves sexually vulnerable through date rape, and a celebration of a young woman brave enough to tell her story. It looks at the varying degrees of sexual exploitation in the modern age.

SONG: ‘Taboo’

sign in, log on, i post my pictures all over your screen

every night, i don’t sleep, i’m in love with the secrets we keep

you’re watching me, i’m sending my message to you

friday night, lies and lies, fake the truth for the millionth time

nobody knows, where i’m goin’, i’m gonna touch you for the very first time

i’m watching you, you’re sending a message to me

you’re watching me, i’m watching you, it’s taboo

timeless love, any place, webcam sex on cyberspace

but tonight, for real, i’m in a danger that i like to feel

you’re touching me, i’m touching you, it’s taboo

you’re dating me, i’m dating you, it’s taboo

you’re loving me, i’m loving you, it’s taboo

SCENE ONE: SCHOOL

2.55 p.m. A Year Nine health class at St Almighty Girls College.

MR PITCHKA: The penis, now fully erect, enters the vagina. At the point of ejaculation, the penis shoots zillions of tiny sperm deep up inside the vagina, the sperm swimming their way up to the ovaries and it only takes one of those zillion sperms to fertilise the female egg, and causing conception.

LEAH: Causing what, sir?

MR PITCHKA: Conception, Leah. The girl gets pregnant. Not always, of course, but the odds vary from individual to individual. Skye might become pregnant the first time she has sex but poor Cloud may never become pregnant no matter how many times she has sex. So it is always a good idea, girls, to have safe sexual practices if you want to avoid pregnancy … and also using a condom can protect you from some nasty sexually transmitted infections.

LEAH: Oooooo.

MR PITCHKA: Thank you, Leah. Alright, now you’ve already split into pairs, that’s good, now one of you hold the penis upright, and the other girl will open the condom packet, take out the condom, give it a little stretch, not too hard, Harrissa, that’s good, don’t use your teeth opening the condom packet, Xenia, you don’t want to put a hole in the condom, that’s not a very good idea, now place the condom over the end of the plastic penis and then roll it on. That’s very good, Skye, stop giggling, thanks, Cloud, hold it firmly or she won’t be able to get it on. Much better.

XENIA: He must get so embarrassed teaching all this stuff to girls.

LEAH: He loves it, look at him.

MR PITCHKA: Not so frenzied, Verena, nice and calm.

XENIA: Did you pinch all those condoms?

LEAH: Yeah, I took five.

XENIA: Five?

LEAH: Four for me, one for you, and you can have the fluoro one so you know where to pu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Playwrights' Biographies
• Foreword
• A Special Relationship
• First Production
• Characters
• Taboo
• Copyright Page