(Dark stage, silence. A stumble and fall is heard. Lights up, revealing a man, the SUBJECT, struggling to his feet and moving purposefully to a seemingly designated spot upstage left. The SUBJECT is wearing boxer shorts and a sleeveless undershirt.)
SUBJECT: (Appearing somewhat surprised to be on the otherwise empty stage. It takes him a moment to gather himself to speak. And when he does so his words are not audible.) The Secret Physical History of My Family. . . (Following a long moment of preparation and regathering, his words are now clearly audible.) The Secret Physical History of My Family. . . Let’s start with my father: my father got hair transplants circa 1972. (SUBJECT commences “dancing. “) The procedure, performed by a dermatologist, involved the systematic relocation of dozens of hair plugs from the back of his head to the top over a period of many weeks. They covered his bald head with hair, arranged in rows, not unlike a planted field.
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