Friday 6 July 2007

Ras Babi plays (10) A play for Friday.... Standing in front of the mirror

Friday, September 15, 2006

I want the power, the goddess of the inspiration to come, I want to write anything, to full the day with whatever I do not care.....

Do you want music?

They should talk to her she will solve their....

Who are they and who is she?

yes, I want music, music is always good....

I can give you a song...

make them two...

and what else will happen on Friday?

I have seen somebody crossing...

let us go and have a look...

No, you stay here I will go and have a look....

[he leaves the place for a short time, he returns]

who was there? Did you see anyone?

No, I think I have seen her...

we return back to the same story...

yes, you were asking me about Friday, this coming Friday will be a special day, we will chant on Babylon again, some good performance, poetry, a roundtable and...

a roundtable..., that is a good idea...

I think so...

and what will you offer on the table?

programming...

that is a heavy stuff rusty...

it was not my idea..., I know someone who think....

.......think he is programmed and he says he can ....

in fact, he says all of us and very few know about it....

is it something to do with a sect?

No, nothing like that...

crazy man...

I do not think so...

so, what do you think?

you know my opinion....

you mean, genies...., he is a ....

not a genie..., you lost your mind....

he is a messenger, he can be one of them, the messenger of the dawn....

do you know him?

I think so...

yes, you know him...

so you will have a crazy roundtable, instead of a serious one...

what is serious..., the war..., the political situation, the pollution, make up your own version man...

the mystery of art...

yes, sir...

something like.... A kiss of chocolate

like the impossible dream...

you mean the queen? You can not stop thinking of her...

No man, I can not stop thinking of her...

good, good for you....

so, we return back to the power of art...

and the enjoyment of ecstasy..., is that is the song, your song for the night...

I think so...., I am late ..., I better start moving...., not now...., I will shave later...

[he turns the light off, he leaves the bathroom]

The mirror: Babylon I am watching you....
end

Ras Babi plays (9) A very short play- freedom of speech for sale

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Who want to buy?

It is a cell…

One day I will dare….

I will sit in front of you, hold your hands, kiss them and tell you….

Can you tell me now?

I can not, you will not understand…

Try me

I prefer to wait

Wait for what?

I do not know…

Sit down, please sit down; I want you to sit here in front of me

I am ok here…

Sit down, do not be rude to your self, do what you feel…

I feel something and I want something different

What do you want?

I want…., I want to…

To... what...?

To…

Sit down!!!

My tongue…, something is wrong with my tongue…

Your tongue is fine…

I used to be different before the…, my tongue is…, my tongue again

{She stands, she walks to where he is standing, she stands in front of him, she says :}

Hug me; I want you to hug me…

{he spreads his arms towards her trying to hug her, he steps back, he says to her very sadly:}

The prison…, the prison, I am a free man…, I do not know why they brought me here…

Come closer I want you to hold my hands

{He moves to the left then to the right as if the ground is holding his feet, he says :}

I can not, I am scared…

{She throws her body into his, he cries…, he cries very loud, and a prison guard turns the light on and says :}

Shut up, shut up your fucking mouth or I will get in and smash it …..

[Light turned off]

Ras Babi plays (8) Darfur-Darfor judgment day

Saturday, January 28, 2006

He carries the prison inside his heart. Sleepless nights conquer his bed, he is full of dreams, but his dreams are horrible, his life is dominated by one matter which build his present and future life. A real matter that took place during his childhood and became the main dream of every night.
once he was a child of five years old, it was summer time the sun at that time was very close to the people, you could touch it if you want, one day the family heard someone at the door
The Grandmother asked her sons and her daughters and their children to keep quite,

she mourned to herself: is a police man!!! Holly God be with...
A police man: open the door, I heard you I have an order
The Grandmother: (from behind the door) God protect, you have an order, an order for what!!!
A police man: open the door old woman.

[the Grandmother opened the door]


The whole family is thrown to the street without mercy, with all what life gave, his mother, her two children, her four brothers, her two sisters and the grandmother...

police man said: Do not forget, beside the court decision, this house is mine, what do you think? Do you think you can live in a house for free? If I were in your place, I will have some honour and go and look for an other place....
his words were directed to the adults and to the children, he wanted them to be fixed in their minds forever and he did succeed.
This was yesterday, today the whole place does not belong to the people anymore and they are forced to have some honour and look for an other home, the government is using The Janjaweed and the soldiers to expel everyone from their ancient land ...

he is talking to a friend for the first time, he says:

HE: my live looks different now, but still the prison is in my heart.
since I was a child I have this feeling, I was never thinking of leaving my home, I thought my life will end there...

A FRIEND: your story is very similar to mine.

HE: I know, that is why I'm talking to you, I think you understand what I'm saying.

A FRIEND: I do understand. Tomorrow is an important day, try to have a sleep.

HE: yes, I hope tomorrow will never come.


When tomorrow comes, we will stand in front of a judge, if we are lucky our judge will have a soul.............................

A JUDGE: Do you understand? Our authority is accusing you of lying, you understand what does that mean?
HE: yes, I do understand you, majesty.

A JUDGE: Can you tell me your name ?

HE: my name is ABURAMUSJOHNRAMSEES.

A JUDGE: long name, is that your real name?

HE: is the last name I use.

A JUDGE: you did not tell the authority your real story?

HE: my real story is worse than the one I told them.

A JUDGE: so you lied. It is easy to lie.

HE: I did not lied, I just mentioned what I remembered, I have memories I always carry them with me. My story happened in the past, it is not easy.

A judge: you have deportation.

HE: it is un believable.

A JUDGE: we will send you back home.

HE: I have no home, the land is different, they have no place for me, they never had, they want me lost, killed, away from them any way.

{ the judge stood up, he looks to the right and to the left then he says}:

A JUDGE: FUCK OFF!!! FUCK OFF!!! I quit this job................

[he leaves]

Ras Babi the plays (7)The Republic THIS WAR!!!

Thursday, March 02, 2006

The Republic THIS WAR!!! No (1)

Death is Rebirth


Scene (1)

{The storyteller, telling}


The most powerful man in our world is not a Buddha, he is not the wise one, he is strong because of his force and from top to the bottom this is the new rule, we live in the Era of the Gangs again, so if you want to fall in love; fall in love with the moon and if you want to steal; steal a camel, if you understand you are the one we talk to.

War is stupid and we are stupid too, the time polluted our souls, our feelings are in the Spot

Two of the two hundreds and something nations of The United Nations became HE and SHE, a suspicious relation is flourishing between them.

He runs towards The Spot, to the top, he stops, he hears footsteps following him, he sings:

HE:

Oh dear one

Oh dear one

When the fire......

She walks behind him with a glass of red wine, she is singing:

SHE:

Oh dear one

When the fire that burns the inside

Does not hurt

My lonely heart

Needs you

I close my eyes

Through the dark

Seeing

And even

Touch you

In a real way

Is possible

Knock on my door

Nothing is impossible

I found it much easier

To say to you

I do and do love

You

When he reaches The Spot, he turns the light on, he looks at her, he says:

HE:

You again, impossible,

It can not be you,

You are not allowed up here,

This place has its own rules,

You can not break them,

They will not let you in,

Specially you,

This place is for people like me,

I am here running away from you,

This place is a holy place

meaning while, she walks with a glass of wine and a cigarette, she smiles, she sits, she sips some of her wine, she lights a cigarette, and she watches her reflection on the mirror opposite her.
He walks slowly to the wall, he touches the wall then he says:


HE:

What do you want?

Silence.

She gives him a look that he understands, he walks towards her and she does the same thing, when they become very close to each other, he touches her, she hits him then she sits down, he sits down as well facing her back he says:

HE:

[Touching her]

I am your virgin lover, I do not want to fuck you, I just want to play with your hair to touch all your body to feel its heat, to romance your soul.

Silence.

He stretches his arm in position of injecting himself, he touches his veins, he says:


HE:
I am addicted to you,

You run in my blood,

You are the strongest drug I ever had,

And you whisper to me your name all of the time,

Come to me, come to my blood,

My body needs its doses.

While she is sitting in her same position, she undressed her top, she feels him injecting her in his blood, she stands up, and she walks while undressing herself completely, she returns back to her first position watching herself in the mirror, she sips an other glass of wine and she says:


SHE:

I do not know why I feel you inside me,

Like I am pregnant,

I feel a baby inside me.

She touches her breast, she moves her hand around her stomach, and she puts them between her legs.
He stands up; he touched his penis and say:

HE:

I am a man

A fully man

And this is

My weapon

{Light turns off}

Monday, April 03, 2006

The Republic THIS WAR!!!No (2)

I AM ROMANCING A STONE

Scene (2) the storyteller is telling:

{She is lying and He is on top of her, do you think The Hero will rape The Republic?}

SHE:

Oh!!! No!!!
Oh!!! No!!!

The people:

{Repeat}

Oh!!! No!!!

Oh!!! No!!!


He:
VIVA THE REPUBLIC
VIVA THE REVOLUTION

Her painful scream, mixed with his hysterical crying


He:

{Shouting}
Freedom!!!

Freedom!!!

Again


For three times he pushes in his sharp flag in a deep place between her legs, then both they hug each other and them cry of pain

HE:

Polluted. I am to my soul, this is the only way I can express my feelings towards you, polluted this time, I love you with all what I can and can not, but you, my dear Republic, you are innocent, you do not mean what you say and what you do

SHE:

You are losing me

The people are losing

HE:

I am losing, the people are losing

SHE:

I am The Republic Do not you see

I am bleeding, are you blind?

HE:

Viva!!!

Viva the Republic

{She shouts of pain, he shouts and the people shout, they all shout :}

ALL:

Viva!!!Viva the Republic

{Light turns off}

Thursday, April 20, 2006

The Republic THIS WARNo (3)

(1)

We hear the voices; we do not see their faces

Son:

Father!!! Father!!!

Father:

Yes, my son.

Son:

I need your help.

Father:

What is wrong?

Son:

The people!!!

Father:

What is wrong with the people?

Son:

They do not want to obey me. They do not want the war.

Father:

What war?

Son:

What war?!!! Who are you, you are not my father?

Father:

Who are you? I can not help you if you do not identify yourself.

Son:

I am your son, your only son, father!!!

Father:

What war, son?

Son:

You know what I mean Daddy.

Father:

Oh yeah, I do understand you.

Son:

Oh yeah.

Father:

Let me tell you, use the heaviest thing you have.

Son:

The heaviest thing I have, I do not know what you mean.

Father:

Use me, silly one.

Son:

How?

Father:

Ask yourself.

[Light turned off]


(2)

She is sitting, he is standing

she:

I am pregnant and not a single man touched me.

He:

You know I love the earth you walk on, my heart will never change, I am convinced, and there is nothing that can change what I carry for you.

She:

Please do not.

He:

You are the dream of the people.

She:

Maybe, maybe I used to be what every one of you wants me to be.

He:

I will protect your virgin land.

She:

Do not you see I am naked, are you blind?

He:

I am not blind, I do believe in you.


[Light turned off]

(3)

we smell, we hear, we see, the war is every where and the people, the animals and the things are in a deadly dancing, the justice is absent, field of war, we hear explosions, screaming and shooting.

A group of people begging in vain, they shout, cry and say:

Please do not......

Please leave me....

Please do not shoot....

Please do it quickly....

An other group of people say:

Oh yeah...

Move move...

Do not move...

Wait...

Cry baby...

Ras Babi plays (6) after the sea we will see


Scene (1)

A voice is trying to tell us:

The year is still 2050
Nothing change
Things got worse

…and
From the far depth his voice taking drastic decision:


Things will change, this will be the last, after this we suffer no more, no more pain, this flood is for a reason, the water will clean what must be cleaned, we will be balanced, our troubles will be solved, there will be no more wars, very soon the door will open and the guards will welcome us.

We lost the battle; the years of fighting and resistance have weakened our flesh and souls. Our women, our children and the ancient ones, we lost a lot of them, the land is burning with its contains, nothing is left for us, except the anger and a great desire for revenge, our God does not allow us to destroy, and we can not fight any more, The God is not going to come down here to solve our things, The God armed us with brains, we have no reason to stay here, soon the water will cover every thing, we have to move quickly, if the mountain does not want to come to us we still have the fire we can move to it. Throw yourselves in the water, the GOD will receive us the other side, if you reached before me, tell him, I will not be late...


A voice:

A long silence…
we can hear them but we can not see them

the first one:

May be he does not want to wake up again, may be he is dreaming.

The second one:

May be he is not here any more, we lost him.

The third:

May be somewhere, he left his body behind.

The fourth:

May be better, you wake him up, I can not, and you may succeed.



Scene (2)
a voice again:


For many hours, these sentences moved from one mouth to the other, the four of them do not know what to do; they are standing in front of the door, trying to get in.

His voice again:

Does the door need a key?
The soul of their friend is not any more like theirs; it refuses to enter the heaven and it can not go back to the hell, his soul is in a limbo place.


Sunshine:

We are confused, we do not know what to do, and we do not know if we are alive or dead.

Nabtio:

What do you mean? I do not understand, the language we speak is deferent to our, every thing is deferent here.

Sabto:

Let us talk to them; we can talk to the guards

Manrato:

You mean we can use the number and the machine to contact with them as they said.

[Sabto uses the phone]

Sabto:

Hello, do you hear me? We have a problem.

[Someone on the other side of the phone]

Someone:

Yes, I do. How can I help you, sir?

Sabto:

Yes, we need your help. My name is Sabto, we have a problem, and our friend does not want to answer us.

Someone:

What is wrong with him?




Sabto:


He locked himself in the room, we can not get in, and he does not answer our calling.

Someone:

Do not worry I will send someone to help you.

Sabto:

Are you God?

Someone:

[Laughing] oh dear, I'm not God Iam just an employee, do not worry, we will help you.

[Someone put the phone, Sabto carries on]

Sabto:

Hello!! Hello!! [Saying to the others:] he is not there anymore.

Sunshine:

We will wait. The help will come.

A voice
first came the wind then the rain, the doors of the skies widely open, the homes and what the entire human built melted to the ground, the animals and the trees swept away, so many things changed shapes, the place became a lake.
And the people, what happened to them?
The first wind took half of them, half of the other half flowed the flood, some ran to no where, the rest of them held to each others..........

[He stood up and shouted]


his voice:

To the sea, to the sea
the God is calling on us, throw yourselves in the water, The God will save you.
He ran towards the sea, the rest followed him to the water.
[When you lose your mind, you free your soul]









Scene (3)
a voice again:

His dream when he was among the others was to live a love story; he said to himself: [my story will be different from the others stories, my story will be simple, without complications, except from the ones that love brings]

She is an ordinary girl, her life is easy, sometimes is boring, she live in a big flat not very far from the big city, somehow she works as a social worker and she has a big office. Her job brought to her boring life the lives of The Others [the ones who live in the shadow of the big city]. Phone calls, she makes hundred of them every day; homeless, drug users, jobseekers, depressed and many others enjoy hearing her special voice, which fall on them like a heavy and smooth drug, sometimes they come to see her and other many other times she goes looking for them, they see in her their lost hopes, and feel the kindness we all seek as living beings. She can not change their living or heal their wounds, but the energy she has can make them forget for a short time their miserable lives; she can makes them laugh.

A police man who was meditating near the sea, saw from a distant 4 or 5 naked bodied, he phoned for help immediately, in less than 7 minutes the help arrived, 6 police cars broke the silence of the place and three birds left their food and flew away, when the approximately dead bodies heard the wacky and wack of the police cars; they started to move, they stood up, they shook hands and they kissed each others, when the police man saw this, he ran towards the coming help, the police cars stopped opposite to him, they talk to him and together they walk towards the moving bodies.

They are standing face to face; they look at each other, then

one police man:

Do you speak what I speak?

THE OTHERS:

Yes we do, sir.

Another police man:

Thanks to the heavens.

THE OTHERS:

THE HEAVEN!!!

Finally we arrived, he is right.


Then:

Manrato:

My name is Manrato, who are you?



One police man:

MAN...What? How are we?
Who are you guys? aaaawhere did you come from?

Sabto:

my name is Sabto, we came from the sea. This one is Sunshine and this one is Nabto [pointing at his two other friends]

one police man:

our pleasure!!! And?

Sunshine:

[very sweetly] we want you to take us to God.

[They all look at her at the same time, some laughed others looked upset then the main one said:]

The head:

listen to me, I am the head of this group, I do not know if you are speaking seriously. First we thought you were dead then we discovered you speak our language; there is something weird here, which I do not understand. I am very sure you need help, you must come with us and you need something to cover your bodies [he tells one of his team: go to the car and bring what they can use]

Manrato:

Are you God?

The head:

No, No, my sun I am not God I am A human being like you, you have to come with us, you need help.

Nabto:

we do not need help we have to meet with him, he is waiting for us.

The head:

As you want, come with us and you will see him.

[They smile, they use what the police man gave them to cover their naked bodies and they follow the head to the waiting cars.]





Scene (4)

Manrato:

IF you are God, we would like to talk to you in private.
Manrato said to One social worker, who gave all her attention, she looked confused, unsure of the mental state of the young man who was just brought to her office, she sat closer to him, she says:

One Social worker:

Oh, dear one, I am not God, you need to see a doctor, I will send you to a good doctor who is a friend of my Dad, he will help you.

Manrato:

No, NO, none of us need a doctor, we are in good health, we are just tired, the journey was not easy, we are very tired, what we need is to see Him and then rest.

One Social worker:

as you want, come with me.

[Manrato follows and the others behind him one after the other.]



Scene (5)

INTERVIEW

a voice:

She is sitting in a comfortable seat, a big table separating her from the chair where Sabto was sitting.

The Social worker:

What is your real name?

Sabto:

my name is Sabto, we asked the guard to bring us to God, first they did not understand us, but wait a minute, you are not him, you have hair like women and you smell like them, they lied to us, please help us beautiful creature.

The Social worker:

your name is Sabto, please listen to me, we all want to help you, we can not help you if we can not communicate, you have to help yourself first, we have to know where did you come from and what you need.

Sabto:

Our home land is call Africa, we all came from there?




The Social worker:

Do you know the name of your country?

Sabto:

We call it Africa; I do not know any other name.

The Social worker:

And how did you arrive here? Who helped you?

Sabto:

I do not understand this game, you know everything and you still ask us, do not you know our story? You know everything, do not you remember?

The Social worker:

Remember!! Remember what?

Sabto: One of you told us to throw our bodies in the water, we did so and now all of you pretend as nothing happened at all, you know me very well, me I do not know you, but you, you know me, you know all of us and you know our stories better than we do.

The Social worker:

relax.

Sabto:

I am relaxed.

The Social worker:

Do you want a glass of water?

Sabto:

if you do not mind I would like to have ten glasses of your holy water.

[light turned of while we hear Sabto drinking a lot of water]


scene(3) Babylon and Lucifer

through the lines she said to him:

Babylon: oh dear you have to see it yourself, the birds are weak they can not make it themselves, they do not understand the exile, their home land changed a lot and they did change also, they sing love songs in a different land, even their wailing is strange, oh dear I think you have to help them you have to save these lost souls, they are yours, go for them and come back you will have me.

He said to her through the lines:

Lucifer: oh piece from heaven, they had no option, the last and the lost Africans are lost for ever, after them Africa will never be the same, they have to open way to progress to the train, from the sea to the desert, from there to the jungle and finally there we are again in the ocean water, piece of heaven when I remember it, do you remember how good I shake ? Babylon right now I feel it, yes I do, I am shaking.

Babylon: stop it, stop it, wicked one, you are driving me crazy, hold the air in front of me, move your neck, and close your eyes, let them sleep now .

[she is sleeping, he is sleeping, we are sleeping and the light is turned off]


scene (4) The story of the village

Since she was born, the life in the village changed, first and last child, first she lost her mother then the father after that, she grow up among the people of the village, the homes became her home and the people her family. Same time, same place three others children passed through the same; Sabto, Nabto and Manrato had the same destiny as Sunshine.

The wise man told the villager: dig your graves and get ready, the beast is around at any time, our sweet and peaceful Africa is running through our fingers, we are loosing our future, Africa is dying, the cancer has found his final station between us, we are dying too, all of us will vanish very soon, very soon there will be no track for us in this lovely earth, let us give thanks for been part of this wonderful and magical creation.

[The villagers give thanks]

The wise man carries on: Except!!! The last and the lost African, they will carry all of us with them where ever they go and when they meet him they will demand what we want all, we want our home land back, we want it back, Africa, Africa and Africa, the same piece of land.

[Light turned off]



With the sea as a view, Babylon said to Lucifer:

Babylon:

The first time I saw you

I knew you have something special for me

I knew, you suit me

I will be very happy with you

Every thing in you is natural

Your smile, oh my God from it

Your smile is simple

When you walk, when you talk

Very powerful

And when you turn or stand or sit

You just push me to give thanks

Oh dear when I see you

I do not feel comfort

I feel loneliness

When your eyes meet mine

When they do travel deep

Into mines

Strange things happen to my heart

It jumps from one side into the other

Whispering to me:

Babylon an other one can take the place

Of your dearest father

Lucifer free me, free me

From this dark cave

Let us, me and you go

To where our hearts shall rest

My heart wants me to stay

As long as the sea does exist.

Lucifer:

If

If I break

If I break the wall

Will we be happy?

Babylon:

My lonely heart is beside your big heart

It is with you; promise me, I promise you

We will never leave the land

We will melt in it, with it

We will be the salt.

Lucifer:

The emptiness

And the sea are listening

Shall I leave them?

I am getting hot

Babylon:

Ignore them

Flood and rain

Give me

I want to enjoy the pain

Lucifer:

Oh dear one

When my thunder comes

I want to know where you going to run?

Babylon:

I knew you have something good

Hug me

Kiss me

Destroy me

{Thunder and rain, light turned off}


Ras Babi plays (5) Concrete jungle

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

WHILE:

Music is taking control, all of them are dancing in one harmony
Bob Marley the Rasta man sings:


Concrete jungle
No sun will shine in my day today
The hich yellow moon won't come out to play
I said darkness has covered my light
And the stage my day into night
Where is the love to be found
Won't someone tell me
Cause life must be somewhere to be found
Instead of concrete jungle
Where the living is harder
Concrete jungle Man you got to do your best
No chains around my feet
But I'm not free
I know I am bound here in captivity
yeh-I've never known the happiness
I've never known what sweet caress is
Still-I'll be always laughing like a clown
Won't somebody help me 'cause
I've got to pick myself from off the ground
In this ya concrete jungle
I said what do you got for me now
Concrete jungle ah won't you let me be now


Who is in The play?
The Echo
Mr. I and I and I
The Voices
The Soul
She
The boy
His Action man
Genia woman 1
Genia woman 2
Genie Leader
All

Scene (1)

I and I and I is trying to sleep

Voices: Me and my bubbles can fly far away into the blue sky
In the field of the jungle, the future jungle, effects are numinous; you can see your soul
IN the concrete jungle, things are unattractive, emotionless and our souls are at sea.

The Soul:
Better, give it up for the reason that things are misshapen and the generation as well. The wilderness is recouping the emerald, the progress needs more workforces, more jungles and oxygen, the evolution is combating with us in a disturbed dash, is in performance with us in far-reaching heavens.

Mr. I and I and I:
I desire to live the rest of my life as a human being and give up the ghost resembling so and I am aware I am not the only one who assert such a average craze.

Voices:
Please, allow me to be in this world with my bubbles, with them I pay a visit to cloudless skies.

The Soul:
Wake up, leave something for tomorrow, tomorrow will approach to set eyes on you all over again.

Voices:
Behind of the kitchen window I was standing, it was a hazy morning, the long way away, caring sun was thrashing somewhere at the back of the sky-scraping mountain, which protects thousands of wavering trees. The pioneer trees gave existence to the street that I see right now in front of my eyes, tidy and clean, there is no person or equipments, the people and the machines are having their imaginings.

The Soul:
I open the window to ask some fresh air to get into my lungs. Unpolluted air is what fulls me with aspiration and optimism in a concrete jungle packed of obliteration and soul pollute.

Mr.I and I and I:
The TV makes me feel sick with constant desire for vomiting. The images and sounds I follow and listen to will stop my heart one day if I carry on
A hand touches me from behind my shoulder. Who is behind me?

Voices:
When I left the bed to the kitchen I was expecting the meeting with someone or something, there is X trying to communicate with me or telling me something. I am not very sure. In my bed, I turned from one side to another, while the day was still young.


Mr.I and I and I
I am tired and I need to rest.


All:
Someone or something is haunting me. The heat on my feet is reaching the limit, my back is hurting and the eyes are burning. Is it my kidney or something new? The pain of the bones is very uncomfortable. Am I going to see who touched me? No, not now, curiosity killed the cat. I am not a cat, at least on this life I live now. Sometimes it is good to ignore and fight against the feeling, I will discover what is in front of me, not what is behind.

Voices:
I continued watching through the window and the mysterious rain, the mountain behind the queues of the long trees is disappearing, the cold wind is hitting the body.

Mr.I and I and I:
I am getting warm and quiet. Why dont I turn and stop all the fuss
Knock, knock!
I am knocking at the door to my soul; my soul will tell me what is going on, will tell me who is there.
Knock, knock, and knock!
My soul, it is me, your call! Please open your door.

Voices:
No answer.
Please tell me.

Mr.I and I and I:
Who is there, am I alive or dead? My soul, what is happening!

All:
Tell me, why my soul?
Why cant I sleep?

The Soul:
Lost, lost. Your soul is lost in the crowd. Find it. Do you know who are you?

All:
A grand mal conquered the whole body. I struggled against it and I am back.

Mr.I and I and I
No one is there. There is the valley of the wisdom. I better forget and keep on knocking at the door in front of my soul. This door is the only answer to my questions.

Knock, knock, and knock.

Voices:
My soul, it is me again, knocking at your door. Please, open the door.
want to hear your voice. I need your advice. Not once, twice and at once!

Mr.I and I and I
Now!
Show me the path, my chest is hurting me, my knocking is on my flesh and bones, I am using my both hands. Answer me please. If you do not want to talk

All:
Are you angry? I am going to accept whatever.
Answer me please.
Mr.I and I and I:
Hey! Listen, if you do not want to talk, motion! Send me a sign or anything from your design I accept whatever from you. Say something to me. Do not leave me like this.

Voices:
I need a rest, a three-minute break. I will have a break. Excuse me, my soul, for three minutes. I will not go far. I will be around.
Mr.I and I and I:
I will get some fresh air into my brain and I will return knocking at your door again.

scene(2)

Once upon a time, a boy had a world on his hands. He was grabbing on it
Suddenly
The boy stops. He looks around the place.

[Behind him His action man is doing the same thing he does]
he speaks:
The boy:
I will not give it up. I am the only one who has such a beautiful song. It is mine; I would never give it away, for a price.

Then, he sings:

Me and my arrow
it is me, it is you,
You and me, me and you,
You are for me, I am for you,
Believe in me, I believe in you,
You, you and me, and me
My arrow is true.

While he is, sing and dancing two ghosts were watching wondering.

Genia 2:
Who is he? Who is he? Does he look like yours? Does he?


Genia 1:
Shut your mouth up, shut it up! Do you know how many are there like them?

Genia 2:
Excuse me, pardon me, I am silly. I never had the pleasure. You tell me how many are there like him.

Genia 1:
Kasi masi from the nasi, billions are there Trunfasi. The human beings are billions.

Genia 2:
What about them? Please tell me all you know about them. They look cool.

Genia 1:
Yah, they look cool but they are dreamers.

Genia 2:
I want one, a soul being, the human are different.

Ghost 1:
Yes, they are different.

Ghost 2:
What about yours?

Ghost 1:
What about mine? We have to be with, you will find one too, one, who will suite you.

Meanwhile, the boy stopped his dancing. He sits on the ground, holding on his hand his burden.

{The two ghosts walk towards him.}

Genia 2:
Right time. Now go. Speak to him.

Genia 1:
Why donÂ’t you go? I have mine. I do not need two. Go you.

Genia 2:
Come on, I do not know them. You are already one of them.

Genia 1:
My kaki naki from the human traki. You lost your mind. Me like them. I am not proud to be like them.

Genia 2:
Kaki naki waki traki. Sorry, I made a mistake; I did not mean to insult or hurt you. Give me your heart, I will kiss it. Go; tell him I am his mother.

{The boy stood up, he looks worried, he kisses what is in his hands, and then he shouts:}

The boy:
Who is there? Show me your face.

Genia 1:
(from behind Ghost 2) your dear mother, she wants to talk to you.

The boy:
My mother! My mother is dead!

Genia 2:
Children of end of the age, your mother is alive. She is not dead. Sick, she is sick. She needs your help.

The boy:
She is not dead, she needs my help! Where is she now?

{He walks towards them; they move back, they hold on each other. Then}

Genia 1:
Do not! Do not come closer. She is very sick, stay there, she just needs your help, your support, dont you understand?

{The boy, after looking at them, he says:}

The boy:
None of you is my mother. Who are you?

{The two Genias jump and sing.}
Genia1+Genia 2:
We are what you fear.
We are the voices you hear,
We are, we are

The boy:
Go away. I am not afraid of you. I know you

Genia 1:
Tell us; tell us, what you know about us?

Genia 2:
We can help you.

The boy:
Go away. Leave me alone. I have no time for you. I do not need you.

{Genia 1 to Genia 2:}

Genia 1:
Leave him, let us go, he is young, his time has not come. I will tell you what they want.

Genia 2:
(impatient) Tell me what to do.

Genia 1:
(Whispering to Genia 2) Visit him on his bed. He is young and you will be his first one. Let us go, we leave him to grow.

{They hold each others hands, they leave.}

The boy:
I saw them, and I heard them, where have they disappeared, the two ghosts are not really, they came out of my thoughts. I created them, there is nobody, none is following me and the world is mine, it is with me, I can do what I want. I will protect it from the ghosts and the vampires.

{He kisses the world, holding it between his hands, He felt asleep, he is dreaming now}



Scene(3)
Voices:
The grown man had his three minutes break and he is back to the conditional world

Mr.I and I and I:
I am talking to my soul and searching for the far sun, I can see it now on top of the mountain sending us warmth and light.
The Soul:
From the far sun, the light hit me on the face; rivers of tears refresh my face from the heat and the light.

Mr.I and I and I:
I am sad, sad to the depths of my soul, I feel the amount of the pain that inhabited us and covered our live

Voices:
Where are we going?
With the pain and the destruction, we cannot go far!
What about tomorrow? Will it come?

Mr.I and I and I:
I am sad; my face to the ground, a knife is in the heart.
Oh my dear divine being! Why do I feel it? Why do I have to feel the pain? Why do I have to share it? Why do not me just

Voices:
Again, I feel something, a hand is touching me, this touch is different.
Mr.I and I and I:
I feel it straight to my heart, I am not able to move or to see the source, and I cannot speak
{He falls to the ground, she walks slowly to him, she touches him, then}



She:
I am humanity
I am the one, number 1
The real one
Tell the women, the men and the children.
Tell them I am de mother of all.

{He stands up, he runs behind her shadow, then}

Mr.I and I and I:
Humanity I love you
Humanity touch me
Humanity heal me

She:
I cannot handle this flood
Of my children blood
I am the mother, the mother of all
No one has the right to kill the other
You are all one tribe my tribe

Mr.I and I and I:
Humanity, can we stop the war, the hunger and the anger?
Humanity we believe in different things.

She:
All of you, you are my liver. Keep telling them. Do not give it up.

Mr.I and I and I:
Humanity, are you my soul?
Humanity, did you answer my call?
Humanity, can I see your face?
Humanity, touch me.

She:
Shushes
The boy is the grown man. He knows the answers.
{She leaves the place}

Mr.I and I and I:
Humanity, are you my soul?
Humanity, why do I feel so sad?
Humanity, am I bad?
Humanity, do not go.
Humanity, Humanity, Humanity
Humanity, Humanity, Humanity
Humanity where are you going?
Knock, knock, and knock
Where are you?
Humanity, where is my soul?

All:
There is no answer. Nobody is there to answer these silly questions. What will happen if I shout, if I draw what I see, what will happen if I translated what is inside me?Â…

Mr.I and I and I:
Lost, lost, lost
My soul is lost
My melodies are solo
I am very tired to play alone
Knock, knock, and knock
Are you there, my soul?
Please, open your door

{He collapses on the floor.}



Scene (4)
All:
Once upon a time, the whole world was a beautiful forest. The green was the life. The people were alive, they were hundred per cent living beings, with all what the word means. There were no wars, no violence, and no badness. They lived in peace and harmony. They were supportive. They survived in good health and longer, with no diseases or disasters. After many years, our wooded area from green started to turn into sallow. Our full-grown fellow was a youthful chap.

Somewhere not very far, two voyagers were on their way home after a long outing. They were tired, hungry and thirsty. They collapse on the first shadow they saw, one of them felt asleep immediately, the other was on his way when he began to see things happening in front of him. He tried to move, to wake up his friend and to shout, but he could not. He rubbed his eyes, he sank his teeth into his body, but nothing, he is not dreaming and he is not dead, he is witnessing

Voices:
A lake came to existence followed by a stunning palace adjoining it. In seconds creatures with their things packed the whole place, a big celebration is going on with music, light and a lot of noise. From a window on top of the palace appears who looks like the leader for the crowded life forms. Their shouting and cheering rise up. He laughs and moves his hands. The beings became calm. The music stopped. Thousands of eyes looked towards the leader who is speaking.

The Leader:
This is a historical meeting. Listen to me, clear your ears and open your minds. A pact is on the way. This meeting is unusual, the time for it and the place are different, and we are right now on what the humans call their home and their planet. It is my first time to meet you here. I read your thoughts; I can tell what is going inside your brains. Some of you are saying, lets get rid of the humans and have the whole place for us. Nothing like this is going to happen. Just the opposite, things will get better between our race and their race. We do need each other, Last week was the longest week in my life. My cabinet and I received more than three hundred human beings. They represented their race; they spoke in the name of their families and lovely ones. They all repeated the same thing: they want to live in peace and harmony with us; they want the two races to be one big and strong race. Our nature and traditions are not the same like theirs. This contradiction will make the union possible, such differences will make of the two races one mighty race. We need them and they need us.
During my life, I have loved many of their females. I am like anyone of you, I can control my mind but the control of my heart is not on my hands. A lot of you communicate with they and you go further.
We want such contact, such relations, you want them to be recognized and normalized, you want to see the fruits of your plantation, you want to have children with the human beings and the humans want the very same thing. Myself, I will be very happy to see how our mixture will look alike.

{Some from the crowd shouts:}

All:
Impossible!
It is impossible, leader.

{The leader ignored them and continued:}

The leader:
My last wife is human, she is five month pregnant and what she carries is mine, I am going to have a half human baby and any one of you can do the same thing, can start to think of it right now, the scientists of the two races have been working very hard, finally they discovered the methods and the sources to make it happens, the page is turned over, we found solutions for the few difficulties. Such relations will have the power to realize what presents a common project!
From now on, the humans are our brothers and sisters, and very soon, the two races will be a strong and powerful race. The Geniehumos race! Make your life goes easy with theirs and respect the pactum.
Is enough for now, I will see with you very soon. Thank you for your attention, salutes

{The creatures waved good-bye to the leader, while his palace was disappearing from the sight. The rest followed, including the lake, the creatures and their things.}
(Voyager 1 is Mr. I and I and I, Voyager 2 is The boy)

Voyager 1:
(trying to wake up his friend) Wake up! Wake up!
They have gone, everything is gone, unbelievable a whole world was in my hands, just now, wake up! Are you dead?

{He hears a voice.}

Gennia 1:
Do you remember me?

Voyager 1:
Remember! Who are you?

Coming closer to her, investigating her, then he jumps back.

Voyager 1:
You are not a human being!

Gennia 1:
So what? You are not like me, you forgot or what? You do not remember.

Voyager 1:
The Gennia woman!

Gennia 1:
My human!

{They hugged each other. Then voyager 1 runs back. He says:}

Voyager 1:
Dont you change? All these years and you stay the same. Dont you get older?

{He tries to wake up his sleeping friend.}

Voyager 1 (to his friend):
Wake up! Are you dead?
Gennia1:
Leave him, I want you, Come with me, I have plans for both of us.

Voyager 1:
What happened between us was in the past. Things changed. I am not the same, I have grown up and what happened was from the rage.

Gennia 1:
I am still young and I do not mind to be with you. My youth will give you back yours. Do not worry. Come with me, I do not want to force you. I picked you.

Voyager 1:
(trying to get rid of her grab)
what are you saying? What are you doing? I want to go back home.

Genia 1:
Home is with me (she shouts on him).
Come! Come human! I want you to give me what I deserve.

{Voyager 1 offers his hands. She leads, he follows.}
{Voyager2 stays in the same place sleeping.}
The Gennia returns with another Gennia to where voyager 2 is sleeping.

Gennia 2:
Please, tell me! Are they like ours? Is yours good?

Gennia 1:
He is good. Very good, is good.

Gennia 2:
Did he change a lot?

Gennia 1:
The human never change, they stay all the time the same.

Gennia 2:
They have small brains.

Gennia 1:
Mine lost our good reminiscences

Gennia 2:
Did he?

Gennia 1:
What a race yes, he did. Silly, they are silly

Gennia 2:
Are they? Teach me, I want to know more.

Gennia 1:
We will teach them, they will be better, just carry on the plan like the others. Our leader knows the humans more than anyone of us knows them.

Gennia 2:
Half.

Gennia 1:
Yes, half. Half is all we need. We need their half to make it better.

Gennia 2:
Help me to find my humus.

Gennia 1:
Already I have one for you. Follow me.

{They leave.}

Scene (5)
All:
The Grown man decided he would never give it up although the signs prove the opposite. His voice is the witness of long past and recent future, somewhere under the skies as roof he kept talking

Voices:
I cannot sleep at night, the pain is deep. I cannot sleep and I cannot wake up. I am in a position between the two. I have to pay attention and listen: a voice is teaching me and telling among your shit and the shit of others find your diamond, the years pass, keep searching, donÂ’t give it up, do not forget the poverty and the injustice.

She:
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Knock!

These are seven knocks, what a strange thing, it is very early and I am not expecting any visitor at this time. What do you want at this time?
I feel warmth, I feel hot, my feelings are mixed up, from the depth, and an answer ruined the confusion.

Mr.I and I and I:
Every one of you has his own one, that inner voice which keeps talking.
Someone is knocking at my door right now. I will open the door.

{Click, tick! Door open.}
Mr.I and I and I:
Welcome, come in, there is a cup of teechoeady for you.
The Echo:
Thank you, you are so kind.

All:
He gets in, he takes his place beside the window, I go to make the tea, when the smoke rose up, the tea was already half cup, I drunk my cup of tea and his cup of tea

Voices:
I see the smoke and I hear his voice very clearly. I see his sentences in front of me through the smoke; I am in my kitchen having my tea and smoking. I am not hallucinating or dreaming, if I did not hear the tea snoring and felt the smoke swimming in my blood I will say I am watching TV.

The Echo:
We live in a very progressive world, very fast and very advanced, people make love through a computer screen and even we can download our minds. The emotions are created for the machines through chemical imbalance, we can touch while communicating.
The system and the stimulate sensations finally come together, across the net many things never existed before they exist now, more than that they interfere in making our karma.
Why so many people die of hunger and disease?
Why the war and the killing?
Some kill others, some inspire others to kill themselves or others, and some kill themselves for the sake of killing others. What a horrible thing! What confusion!
Without disasters, we cannot have our morning tea or coffee, we cannot go to bed without seeing or smelling human blood.

All:
If there is no war, there is no news. No news at all. Our planet is full of shit, full of wicked intentions and vampires
Who is the responsible?
Who is to be blamed?
Is God the one?


The Echo:
The hands and the wailings reached the skies, the tears are rain, the blood is flood, and there is no answer back. Is God to be blamed?


Voices:
There is no answer; it is just the echo of the victims screaming.
The planet is our chance, we have to solve our problems without miracles, their time has gone, and we need to find the solution, which is not far.


The Echo:
The hands that made the damage are human hands. God has nothing to do with it, we are responsible for the fame and for the climate change and we are responsible for the whole. Again, God has nothing to do with it, and the devil has nothing to do with it, Iblis has collected his long tail long time ago and left us, among us there are a lot who are more destructive and wicked than the prince himself, that is why he left us.


Voices:
Some of us believe they can give and take life. They believe they are in a higher level. They believe they are saints with their miracles. I do really believe them; they can bring the rain, the famine and the pain. They are magicians

Mr.I and I and I:
60 years ago, we suffered from Hiroshima. Just yesterday after the celebration, Japan suffered from an earth quack, what a scary story. Have you ever seen a fish with a dish? If you have, you will understand what is in the dish

Voices:
There is no doubt some can make the black white and they are capable to return it black!
Good and bad, God and Devil, rich and poor, black and white. That is the way things go, that is the way that things run, how we live and how we spend our days that is everything about the Movie, our hero has no option, he cannot look back, if he wants to become God he has to offer his sacrifice to the Temple. He has to reach the top of the mountain, where he will have his book of salvation. There is nothing more to be said about the Movie, we know all the words and images, we can guess the movements and the sounds, we do not need more heroes, their time has gone.

All:
Let us accept from now on our world without heroes or leaders it is the new era we live in and we will survive
The Soul:
Can we get rid of religions?
Can we get rid of fanaticism?
What is the pure truth?
Do we live in the ERA of Religions?
Does the confusion dominate the whole planet?
What about the non-believers, do they believe in the No Believe?

The Echo:
The fact is on top of a mountain and we scale to the top from different sides, the truth is one like the almighty sun, one truth and many ways lead to it, the bad inhabited our souls, there is no magic which can free ours souls from its nail, we have to work in a spiritual level.

All:
Let us accept a new view.
Let us change our lives, knowing it is not an easy process

Voices:
It is a far long way, we have to go through and finally will meet with the new change, and we will have back what we have loosened.

Mr. I and I and I
What does it want from me?
I know it since a long time ago, it follows me
I cannot mix it with other voices. It is a voice I know not a whispering voice.
The first time I heard it I was young man. It was the voice of my green man. At that time, I was lost in a desert, a prisoner to the horizon, with the whole world on his hands.

All:
Be careful! Be careful! You are not the only one
You are not the only one who occupies the place; a base is given to you throecho the eternal space.

The Echo:
Look, inside you, look around you look up, look down you, dont you see? Listen! Can you hear?
Show respect.
Look at that bird, look at that snake, do not spit in your mothers face, respect the human race, one of billions, look at that ant with a mountain on her back, you are one of billions.
Can you see? Can you hear?
You are not the only one.
Follow the sun.

She:
Sing your song to the far moon,
Find your shadow under the rain,
Write your name on the sand of the pain
If you did it before do it now
Buy your ticket, get in the train
You are not the only one
Share; do not follow the rat race
Full your eyes with the grace
Eat your dreams
See through the dark
Stand firm, be beautiful, see beautiful
And do beautiful things, you are beautiful
Be careful, you are not the only one
You are not the only one who keeps on
Who try to find the tenderness?



He sleeps


Ras Babi plays(4)The chorus girl in a museum 2006 by Ras Babi

Saturday, July 29, 2006


Who is in the play?
The chorus girl- Musa
Any woman: is a woman
Allan:a lost case
A police woman
A police man
Scene (1)
[in the bed]
any woman voice:
When she first heard the knocking, The Chorus Girl said:
The Chorus Girl:
"It must be one of the girls"
any woman:
But she was wrong, she never thought of anyone else, or that something different would happen in her life...
And when He heard the knocking, he jumped from the bed and ran straight to the bathroom...
The Chorus Girl:
"I am going to open the door"
[She moves from the bed]
any woman:
The summer is knocking on the door...
The cold wind is taking it back to the winter...
The weather is no longer as it used to be, the four seasons are mixed up, and it could snow during July while the people are having fun by the sea side....
The summer and the hot sun bring new chances, changes and movements into our miserable life...
Allan:
(He is telling us, from behind the bathroom door)
This war must stop because...
It carries with it our auto-destruct virus...
Most of the ordinary people lost their hope...
They have been waiting for so long, expecting...
Tomorrow will bring a peaceful future, in many places around the globe the negative energy took over...
The war left behind complete destruction; everyone lost a dear one...
And drunk from the glass of the conquerors, till the wine reached the bones ...
if not because of news and some of the birds that escaped from the fields of death...
The west will never know what is happening on the other side of the wall...
[Then, we hear the strong knocking again]
Allan:
(From behind the bathroom door)
are you expecting someone?
I do not expect a soul...
Do not open the door...
[We see smoke filling the place, we hear music, then shouting and screaming, the light goes off]
Scene (2)
[ in a museum]
any woman:
A museum, somehow the place is unique. A free space for art, for every one to show their art, to express themselves in a positive way, is a place where the positive energy can find the right place for it to travel with good vibe.
Allan is one of those, who felt in love with the place the first time he stepped in
He gave it all his love and energy
He believes in the magic that fills it.
He is there every day having his usual cup of tea
one day while he was traveling through the papers, a lady stepped, she walks straight to where he was sitting, he stands up, smelling the place around him, when she becomes very close he asks her;
Allan:
what is that.?
I know that smell
I am a wake!!!
I am not dreaming!!!
Musa:
dream on, it is art that you dream on...
Allan:
I know you
You are the goddess of inspiration
[He collapses on the chair, she sits opposite him, and she touches him on his face and say]

Musa:
Wake up, dream on, open your eyes, see and say something

[He opens his eyes, he takes the paper from the table, and he reads through it, he stays calm for seconds then he says]

Allan:
The people in my home land die like the contaminated chickens...
You see...
I know these people...
These are my parents...
The chorus Girl:
Oh my dear I feel..
I am really sorry...
Allan:
(Covering his face with his hands)
I want to cry...
I want the tears to come out of my dry eyes...
My eyes are like a great desert And my heart is useless, it does not...
The Girl:
[Offering her hand]
my name is Musa, what is yours?
Allan:
What would be of me if I had not met you tonight?
I have been waiting for so long, sometimes I smell you around
I know .
You make sense of my existence, and you give my life meaning...
Musa:
Very beautiful...
Allan:
you are my piece of peace
My name is Allan...
I feel but I can not..
I want to cry...
Can a man cry...?
Do tears test the same?
Musa:
tears have different taste...
you are already crying.
You do not have to feel shame....
Men can cry...
Come closer hold on to me And we will cry together...
I have a lot of tears kept deep inside my heart...
You do not Know how much I...
{They hold on to each other, they cry, they cry for themselves, they cry for us and the light turns off}


Scene (3)
[ same place]
.... The people are waiting for the chorus girl
We hear any woman saying
any woman:
Call on Apollon Moussagets
The daughters of Zeus....
on each one of them
Oh Aoide!!!
Oh Melete!!!
Oh Mneme!!!
We call on you
to inspire the leaders
The very powerful ones....
The most influential beings....
STOP...
there is no wisdom in killing And damaging mother earth....
Come come
Then go...
Clio is witnessing the shame...
Thalia is crying out of pain...
Calliope is hiding from the rain....

Suddenly
Allan stands from among the crowd, he recites...


Allan:
Erato, love me like my mother earth
Melpomene, tons and tons of electrons ...
Polyhymnia, here we are...
Dancing out of passion
Terpsichore show me the path
Euterpe watch who is fast
Urania any idea ...
Any idea...
I really want this war to stop,
We are doing well, and we need more people to join in...
War affects us all, we know it is a great business for some, but, the majority do not want it, we have to.....,
Ok!!! I will leave you for some dance and music....
Thanks a lot....
[He sits down]
[In stead of singing the chorus girl is dancing
the music comes from under our feet, it carries with it the energy of the earth, when it takes place, we hear Peter Tosh singing, he calls on Christopher Columbus, the slaves masters and others to stand up and face the judge, The Chorus girl enters the stage with her mouth shut and her hands tied, she dances like a dying bird, when the painful dance comes to its end, the light turned off]


Scene (4)
[in front of the mirror]
Allan is a wake he is standing in front of a mirror....
Allan:
She is young
The years have no affect on her...
She is so beautiful, warm, fresh, and elegant
Such a wonderful creature
The mother earth gave no birth to any one like Musa
A unique symphony an opera
There is no mason or any artist
Who can ever dare or even try
To join the dots that protected her smooth body...
Among her sisters, the nine daughters of Zeus
She is the one, the only one
Who can inspire peace and love together
At the same time
How much I love her...
And loved the earth on which she walks....
[She is lying on her bed sleeping, he walks to her, he is sitting on a chair opposite to her, he holds her hand, she woke up, he kisses her on the front, and then he says]

Allan:
Sometimes....
We think we are free...
We forget...
How birds..
need to change trees
Seeking safety...
water of the blue sea ..
help me
help me
I need safety...
my dance is for you
(sweet music(FLY LIKE AN EAGLE, UP UP TO THE SKY...) takes control,he dances around the room, she watches him, when he finishes his dancing, she says to him :)
Musa:
That night she was there watching you
(He sits, he asks :)
Allan:
What night?
And who was there!!!?
Musa:
The anti-war night, your wife was there listening
Allan:
My wife!!! The anti-war night
What war!!!?
Musa:
She told me; when she was younger and better-looking, her voice was sweeter and stronger... She said: you adored her
Allan:
It is intolerably hot and humid, a storm is brewing, that is what the news says, and this time they got it right, it is the hottest day, last July was different
I am sweating
There is my wife, who must be
And there is a war
(She moves from the bed, he walks to her, they hugged)
Musa:
She said: you did not recognize her
(She walks away from him)
Allan:
And where is she now, what is her name?
Do I have children?
{Strong knocking}
Allan:
Who is that?
Musa:
Maybe that is her
I gave her the address
She said they are looking for you
{Strong knocking}
Allan:
Who are they!!!?
Am I wanted!!!?
Am I a criminal of war!!!?
Musa:
Oh my dear, you are such a peaceful being
Even an ant can eat your food; I am going to open the door
Police woman:
Please open the door, we know you are inside
we can hear you
Musa:
I am going to open the door...
Allan:
Open it
It is really hot
Bitterness ...
Bitterness...
How can just a man
handle it...
{She opens the door, a police man and a police woman, come in}
A policeman:
(Very politely)
Sir, are you Allan ?
Allan:
Yes sir, my name is Allan...?
Police woman:
Do you know Rebecc?
Allan:
Rebecca!!!
Rebecca killed herself
That is how the story ended; I have read the book, when I was in the school
{Musa walks to him she holds his hands, she helps him to sit}
Allan:
We should invite the lady and the gentleman for water, please sit down, make yourself at home.
Musa:
I will bring the water, stay here; I will be back soon.
Allan:
(To the officers)
This woman
This woman
Heaven is under her feet
Like my mother
Mother earth
[The police lady approaches him saying ]
Police woman:
Mr Allan, I would like you to listen to us carefully
Police man:
Do you want to know why we are here?
Allan:
We are in a free country
You are officers; I guess it is something to do with
{Musa enters with two glasses of water, she says}

Musa:
Allan, dear are you alright?

[He takes the water from her he offers it to the officers, and then he says]

Allan:
Yes I want to know

The police woman:
Lets go back to Rebecca, your wife

The police man:
She is well and safe
What we know she was trying to find you, to tell you.

Police woman:
as you know there is no more war in your home land, the home office decided to send you back home...

Musa
(she holds his hands)
He has no home
His home is gone
[Allan stands up, he walks to the officers, he fells to his knees, he holds on the officers shoes, he says]

Allan:
please officers, I beg you do not send me back
This is my home
I have nowhere to go.

[Musa walks to him, she helps him to stand up, she says]

Musa:
Stands up my darling, I know the war is not over

The police man:
Sir you must come with us

Allan:
bitterness...
Bitterness...
I feel the pain
Running in my brain
Through it is self
I will cure my bitterness
myself...
There is only one way
for my bitterness
More bitterness
Not with sweetness.
oh bitterness...
[Then he says to the officers]

Allan:
Two minutes...
please just give me two minutes,I need to change my cloth and I will follow you

The police woman:
No problems we will wait for you

Allan:
thank you...

[He leaves the place]

Suddenly
They hear a gun shot

Musa:
He killed himself
He killed himself

The police man runs in side he comes back, he says

Police man:
It is true he shot himself

Musa:
where did he find the gun?
There is no gone in our house.

The officers :
( with one voice)
The man has gone, the guns are everywhere

Musa:
he has gone...
[Strong knocking]

A woman voice:
Please open the door, it is important...
A police man:
maybe that is her....
A police woman:
That could be any woman....
Any woman:
remember what Anton said....
the short story goes like this...
ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, felt ill-humored and out of sorts. Both were bored and waiting for the heat of the day to be over in order to go for a walk.
All at once there was a sudden ring at the door. Kolpakov, who was sitting with his coat off, in his slippers, jumped up and looked inquiringly at Pasha.
"It must be the postman or one of the girls," said the singer.
Kolpakov did not mind being found by the postman or Pasha's lady friends, but by way of precaution gathered up his clothes and went into the next room, while Pasha ran to open the door. To her great surprise in the doorway stood, not the postman and not a girl friend, but an unknown woman, young and beautiful, who was dressed like a lady, and from all outward signs was one.
The stranger was pale and was breathing heavily as though she had been running up......
That is that.

[Light turned off]