Weaver, who usually performs the femme in this couple, appears in full butch garb as she defers to Shaw's Tony. Gender constructs are performed and destabilized by these performers as their butch and femme identifications become less and less fixed. Radical interruption of narrative is one means by which Shaw and Weaver destabilize fixed identity. Besides me, and you. Ignoring Weaver's demand, Shaw's Tony continues to write his script, typing verbatim a dialogue he has spoken earlier with Barrett.
All scripts are hereby subject to interruption as screenplay merges with stage dialogue.
Her character Barrett is stuck in a halted plotline, wanting to change the game. In her new persona, Weaver flounces around the stage, bare breasts and buttocks bouncing. She has become a mock pin-up girl, a screenplay character scheming to seduce Shaw's Tony. Shaw calls a halt to Weaver's femme role-play. She again interrupts traditional narrative structure, making a bold move against the phallic implications of plots building to a single climax.