Fairview

Onstage, the events of Act I begin again, but this time, the conversation of four ostensibly white audience members is superimposed over the action. Suze and Jimbo are arguing because Jimbo has asked Suze, “If you could choose to be a different race, what race would you be?” (32). Onstage, Dayton enters. Suze, uneasy with Jimbo’s question, deflects, since race is not something that one can choose. Jimbo reminds her that she has said that race is a social construct. Suze agrees but adds that this assertion does not negate the reality of race. She turns the question back on Jimbo, who easily replies that he would be “Asian.” Suze asks why, and Jimbo immediately asks if there is something wrong with being Asian. She denies implying that there was, and Jimbo explains that from what he has read and seen in past girlfriends, Asian people are very traditional and strict with their children. Jimbo asserts that as an Asian, he would rebel in order to show that Asian people can be whatever they want. He would take his parents to therapy and have a happy family. Suze objects to his stereotyping, and Jimbo calls her a “good little liberal” (38).