Читать книгу Conversations of the Politically Incorrect - Dimitri Ternezis - Страница 3

The stage is set in darkness. A single street lamp post, a dumpster, some plastic shaped like tents. Centre stage is a pillar holding up the busy freeway above. Traffic and a light rain can be heard. (Author suggestion – this can be happening whilst audience are entering the theatre)

Rummaging is heard as Andy wanders onto the stage looking through bins. Narrators voice releases the play from the darkness.

NARRATOR:

All Andy wanted was to get away.

Working for one of the most affluent trading houses in Sydney, Andy fell fast and hard from his glory days. His peers had picked him as the scapegoat to explain the money away. All the trust he thought he had, led him down a road of financial chaos and debt. He had been set up as the traitor. Innocent in his heart, his pain was intense. And as if financial ruin wasn’t enough, his wife of ten years filed for divorce faster than it took to settle a trade. Now the money was gone; Sylvia was gone; his kid saw him as a loser and a new mythology had started to be associated with his name.

Filing for bankruptcy, he walked out.

Now, finding himself alone in the streets, he wanders aimlessly sifting through emotions that strangle his heart. Hate. Anger. Disbelief. Regret. Vulnerable to everything that had touched his life - the money, the pride, the ego – all meaningless.

Hungry.

Tired.

Confused.

Andy needed rest but had no destination.

A dim streetlight comes on. The rain starts to pour. Audience can see Andy stumbling. Spotting the cover of the overhead freeway, Andy sees a way to avoid the rain and his embarrassment. He stops under the pillar and feels something near his leg like plastic.

TERRY: (yells from inside a tent) Who the hell’s out there?

ANDY: (nervous) Sssorry mate – just trying to get out of the rain.

TERRY: (angry) Well keep away from what’s mine!

(Andy rests against the pillar beneath the freeway. Stage Dark.)

NARRATOR:

Too tired to think. Too tired to be scared. Sleep finds Andy.