Fefu and Her Friends

While Part 1 takes place in one location and is staged in the main auditorium, Part 2 occurs in four locations simultaneously. The audience is divided into four parts and travels from each location to the next, so each scene is performed four times, and the audience does not all see the scenes in the same order.

Fefu and Emma carry vegetables from the cellar, and Fefu is dressed in a gardening ensemble. Emma asks, “Do you think about genitals all the time?” (27) Fefu says that she doesn’t, and Emma explains that she thinks that it’s odd that people go about their business all the time without ever talking about the fact that they all have genitals. Emma theorizes that sexual performance is the basis on which people are judged to get into heaven. Fefu agrees that since “on earth we are judged by public acts” (28), it only makes sense that heaven should judge humans on private acts.

Fefu tells Emma that she always makes her happy, even though Fefu is constantly in psychological pain. Fefu describes a large, ugly black cat that started coming around her kitchen. Fefu feels obligated to feed him, though once she started doing this he had “foul diarrhea” (29) all over her kitchen.