In a shared back yard in a gated community in a carefully watered enclave, David and his wife Luna live next to Cooch and Chrissy. Each is in their own way, infamous and each is in their own way, greeting the approach of the Next Phase of LIfe with a kind of audible sigh.
Out of the boredom, Luna, Chrissy and Cooch find themselves fixated on David’s unique job situation which is; he is the pilot for a tech billionaire (he can’t say who,) and is on perpetual standby and never flies him anywhere.
Gossip and conjecture reach a fever pitch when a super virus seems to be threatening the world outside of their cul de sac, and a representative of the the company loitering nearby tells David that he may be called into active duty soon.
Is the news they are getting on social media to be believed? Do any of us really know if anything we see online is real? Is David’s very boss the man responsible for all of this and is David’s plane his escape? Too many drinks at the BBQ and too many whispered conversations throw their lives into chaos as David’s time to suit up is upon them all.
About Whatever.
How it started
A note from the Playwright Scott Brooks
For me, how I got the idea for the play or why I decided it was a good one to pursue and ultimately finish is something I would love to talk about; maybe you have a podcast? What has been interesting to me is how timely the play continues to become. Like this article we found about a website that tracks the activity of many billionaires private jets and will sound the alarm if they all take off for their private bunkers at once.
But the thing for me is this… The Aliens. There’s fucking aliens! And the United States government admitted it. Whatever is in the Epstein files and whatever else they have going on is so bad, the government and the people who control it were like, “Hey look over here! We’ve been lying and covering it up but dude, there have totally been aliens this whole time!” They even released pictures and shit. Pictures and video of spaceships and actual extra-terrestrials courtesy of the U.S. government!
There was a time when that would have been all anyone talked about, maybe forever. But the world has become such that, when we finally learned once and for all that yep, all those “UFOs” were real this whole time - there has been so much other unbelievably insane shit, that the entire numb world seems to have sighed and said, “Whatever.”