Emmett Dunham.

Two-act play · Coming Fall 2026

A play that never leaves the men's room.

Potty Talk · one room, one night, eight people

Type Two-act play
Status Written Fall 2026 · produced Summer 2027
Writer Emmett Dunham
Setting The Rat's Nest, one bathroom, no locks

The confinement is the hook. One filthy, lock-less room, and nowhere for any of them to go.

POTTY TALK is a two-act play set entirely in the men's bathroom of The Rat's Nest, a packed, ill-kept nightclub. Over one night, eight young people pass through this single filthy room, testing each other and themselves — while the owner who handed them the language to wound each other, and the attendant who cleans up after them all, watch it happen.

What begins as filthy, funny, painfully real barroom comedy slowly shows its teeth: a case study of modern masculinity, of which fights we take on the chin, which we fight to the death for, and which we walk away from before the seeds are sown. POTTY TALK is the language that only surfaces when honesty is the last option left.

In the tradition of

The one-room pressure play: No Exit, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, American Buffalo. Lock people in, take away the exits, and the room does half the work. More on why: single location as a pressure cooker.

Potty Talk in purple neon script above a stick-figure restroom sign, on a dark brick wall.

A neon title treatment for the show. Production and set imagery to come.

Still to come

A short representative script excerpt, a set or production-design concept, and a staged-reading photo once the production exists.

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