Airline Highway Analysis

In the play Airline Highway, Krista is a stripper whose ex-boyfriend comes back into town for the upcoming funeral. In the beginning of the play, she states that she is recently homeless. She did not have the money to pay rent, so she was evicted. Then, she finds out her ex-boyfriend (Bait Boy) would be coming in to town and she gets into a frenzy. Word has been going around that Bait Boy is living the good life with his sugar momma. He got out of New Orleans, but Krista is still stuck in the same place. She is a homeless stripper who shamelessly flashes her boobs to get Mardi Gras beads. To look less pitiful, she decides to lie to him when she meets him. She pretends she got her life together and is working a decent job. Her lies fall apart and things do not end well.

Just to get into more depth, I’m going to focus on a scene in the beginning of the play. I think Krista was talking to Tim. She sits in front of the apartment complex in a big hoodie while Tim is front stage. She is does not have a place to go and she is filthy. Krista’s objective in the scene is to take a shower. Her obstacle is her homelessness. She does not have to a place to take a shower. She attempts to convince Tim to let her use his shower. I would have liked for the actress to act with more dramatic or obvious intent so that the scene may be more interesting. Instead, she went for a more natural route in her acting. Although it is a bit less entertaining, it seems realistic and causal. She begins to lure Tim in by starting causal conversation. She does not outright tell Tim that she is in desperate need for a shower and how she would like to use his shower. She plays with him a bit by smelling her jacket and saying she stinks. She had her arms crossed and seem a bit pouty. She is almost acting cute to get what she wants. Her action could have been to endear