Bachelor reaches into pocket, removes phone.
Projection: Images of touch-screen digital communication devices, interpolated by the following slogans: REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE, TOUCH-SCREEN TECHNOLOGY, LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING, DIGITAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE, THE ENTIRE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, ETC.
Bachelor dials a number, phone rings. Bachelorette removes her phone. Bachelor speaks into phone. Speaker phone.
Bachelor: You can only reply. I desire you.
Digital delay of voice: “I desire you.”
Bachelorette speaks into phone. Speaker phone.
Bachelorette: I can only reply. I am forbidden to you.
Digital delay of voice: “I am forbidden to you.”
Repeat sequence six times, each time with a different Bachelorette. With each repetition, all become more fascinated by their devices. Touching their screens, enamored. Voices become progressively detached, directed more to phones than others, as if in a trance.
Actors slowly replace phones. Begin to discover one another again, gently poke and prod each other’s bodies, trace lines and contours. Childlike curiosity growing into reserved sensuality until the Bachelor stands upright, bachelorettes kneeling at his feet, touching him. Sounds of digital touchpad beeps, keystrokes, with each touch.
Bachelor: (flatly, repeatedly) What are you doing, babe?
Beeps slowly assume the pattern of Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” Final bars of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” close the scene.
Projection: Images of touch-screen digital communication devices, interpolated by the following slogans: REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE, TOUCH-SCREEN TECHNOLOGY, LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING, DIGITAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE, THE ENTIRE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, ETC.
Bachelor dials a number, phone rings. Bachelorette removes her phone. Bachelor speaks into phone. Speaker phone.
Bachelor: You can only reply. I desire you.
Digital delay of voice: “I desire you.”
Bachelorette speaks into phone. Speaker phone.
Bachelorette: I can only reply. I am forbidden to you.
Digital delay of voice: “I am forbidden to you.”
Repeat sequence six times, each time with a different Bachelorette. With each repetition, all become more fascinated by their devices. Touching their screens, enamored. Voices become progressively detached, directed more to phones than others, as if in a trance.
Actors slowly replace phones. Begin to discover one another again, gently poke and prod each other’s bodies, trace lines and contours. Childlike curiosity growing into reserved sensuality until the Bachelor stands upright, bachelorettes kneeling at his feet, touching him. Sounds of digital touchpad beeps, keystrokes, with each touch.
Bachelor: (flatly, repeatedly) What are you doing, babe?
Beeps slowly assume the pattern of Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” Final bars of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” close the scene.
