The Night Animals
Short Play.
(10.June.2005)
***
"A wooden rectangular bench in a main garden .. tree .. time is afternoon .. the girl is sitting on the bench and her back
facing the audience .. in the 30's of her age .. with long brown hair and a light detials in her face, makes her look cute ..
waiting in worry & concern someone ..
"Adam" enters .. in the middle of the 20's .. slim .. moving light .. brown hair .. un-arranged clothes .. he stops to
lean on the tree .. he seems to mumble with some words .. as if he is whispering to him-self .. then he recognize that the
girl sits there .. he gets close."
***
Adam : Excuse me ma'am, can I have a seat?
Eve : (she moves to the left slightly to make wide)
Adam : Thanks.
(After a while of quiet he recognize she is in worry)
sometimes..
it happens to us..
that we fear or to have a little un-comfort for some people..
to be anxious from their appearance..
to be worry from some moves or words come from them..
to be more tension when we have to spend sometime with strangers..
that's what happens to me (Silence)
does it happen to you too?
Eve : (worried and not in a mood to talk) sometimes.
Adam : sometimes! .. that's really sensible.
(the girl moves a little towards the left to be far with tact)
Does it happening now?
Eve : No.
Adam : No! (wondering)
Eve : I mean a little (trying to read a book with her)
Adam : understood .. understood.
(trying to light a cigarette .. and finally he get it done)
This is a really good time..
Now days it's really good when we run away from those deaf buildings..
What's more beautiful than touching this grass!
What's more beautiful than this soft breath or air touching the hair..
of a beautiful woman!
a woman reading..
Oh what a nice cigarette!
It's so hard for a sensible guy to bear those dumb buildings!
(the girl starts to watch him stealthily while she pretends reading ..
Adam stands up walks slowly around the bench while he puts his hands
behind his back .. his voice comes little high singing an old song)
I say as a dove comes near me..
Oh my dear neighbor..
if you know my case..
will a prisoner laugh and free one cries?
will a sad smile and happy one moan?
(he sits down, he find a tiny string coming out from his shirt ..
he lights a match and burn the string from the middle to remove it ..
she begins to watch him while her worry about him is going away ..
and curiosity came instead of it ..
and a smile had drawn on her face ..
Adam recognize this suddenly)
Adam : Zein taught me this.
Eve : Zein?
Adam : sadness stamped on the heart.
What do you read ma'am?
Eve : (Blushing) Nothing .. just about this serial killer.
Adam : Serial Killer! .. that's really sensible.
(Silence again)
do you fear me, ma'am?
Eve : Never.
Adam : then why you run away?
Eve : run away! (wondering) run away from what?
Adam : from a certain thing..
Sure .. sure
there is no woman may come and sit in the garden..
to read the news about the killer.
Eve : Really!
I'm waiting my boyfriend.
Adam : (Clapping his hands with delight)
that's really sensible.
a woman with your beauty won't ever run away..
but she sits, until a man comes to her..
that's really sensible too.
me too..
along ago I used to have my woman..
an amazing woman..
we used to not sit on the bench .. never .. never..
we used to sit on the grass..
she used to lean on this tree..
me too..
I used to sleep, resting my head on her legs, like a baby, smoking my cigarette..
she used to sing to me (he acts the scene to her)
I don't remember this song..
I think it has these words .. "You and I .. I lose control".
Eve : (worry has just gone and she begins to smile for every thing happens)
but he didn't come till now!
Adam : He won't ever find a woman like you in this world.
Eve : flirtation or compliment?
Adam : She used to get naked for me.
Eve : (Blushing) Please.
Adam : (moving to her with a fist full of grass)
Does my lady knows how soft & wet..
this grass can be when night comes?
In the darkness .. when we are alone and naked!
(he throws the grass in his hands on her legs, and he bend to get another fist of grass..
while she tremble standing to get away)
Eve : Please .. don't speak .. I am not your woman .. please.
Adam : (trying to be nice with her)
That was along ago..
In this dusty past..
when I was a stud, In love with all women..
but she tamed me..
and I became only for her (with pain)
then I lost her, and the cursed days came..
Eve : (she comes back and sits again, now they are sitting back to back on the bench)
why he didn't show up till now?
I won't stay longer..
Adam : She used to wait for me if I didn't show up.
Eve : He chose to travel, and he left me alone.
Adam : She used to blow-up laughing out loud until she falls on the grass..
like a pack of fragrant..
Eve : he spoiled my dreams in the house..
Adam : She was adorable when she used to sleep and lick my chest like a kitten..
Eve : We can't stay in the streets all the time..
Adam : She loved to wake-up all the night and create her own imaginations..
saying this world is just a dream..
Eve : Time is passing..
Adam : life is passing..
Eve : love is passing .. and there is nothing left except scolding,
from my mother and her husband..
Adam : she left her family for me..
Eve : (Suddenly stands up impatient)
I won't be patient anymore..
Adam : (Suddenly recognize that she suddenly stands up)
What's wrong my lady?
Eve : Nothing..
nothing..
enough .. I am leaving..
Adam : to the installed trap?
to the lost life?
Eve : don't ask me .. I know .. I don't know..
Adam : I know what you are carrying inside .. this major worry..
let's have a seat..
Eve : Have a seat?!
Adam : and let's cut this bad time..
Eve : the trap time..
leave me please .. Mister..
Adam : "Adam" that's my name.
Eve : I am "Eve".
Adam : beautiful name..
Eve : with an Ugly luck..
Adam : my lady..
we live upon illusions..
every one of us chooses the best illusion for him/her and lives with it and for it..
so if we can change the illusions..
then we can change too..
Eve : illusions?! (wondering while she is sitting)
Adam : that's my opinion.
Eve : I don't know .. but I ..
Adam : excuse me..
our view to the world changes according to the chosen illusion..
Eve : never heard of that!
you amaze me mister Adam.
Adam : Do my lady know the night of animals?
Eve : what?!
Adam : this is their park (pointing to a place out the stage)
Eve : I know.
Adam : Do my lady fond of seeing those animals?
Eve : sure.
Adam : at night?
Eve : (with disapproval and wondering) to go in at night?
Adam : exactly.
Eve : (moves a little away) you must be crazy!
Adam : Do my lady believes what she sees about the animals?
Eve : I don't understand!
Adam : that's sensible .. really sensible.
Eve : how?
Adam : there is no woman like you know that the animals at day are so different than
animals when night comes..
Eve : I can't get it .. I don't understand..
Adam : but I understand..
I tried the darkness and silence with animals..
as this night turns into ashes, coming down slowly..
until we drown in it .. and then sound and light would taste something else..
My lady .. I saw it .. the fear, the death of desire in the eye of the captured animal..
The cracked voice becomes murmuring, a call with fire for a larger space..
in a certain direction..
these cages become great big hands for the hunters..
My Lady .. I saw it with my own eyes .. the sadness of the animal..
Eve : that's amazing..
Adam : to share with it my worries..
belonging to the honesty, the sadness, and the endless longing to the freedom..
oh .. if only my lady can see those eyes..
those eyes which miss so much all this universe..
miss so much .. running, hunting and breaking the cages..
those eyes which dream of certain thing..
more beyond this world..
those wild eyes..
Eve : (she stands up quietly, she sits down on the grass, and he with hesitation puts his head
on her legs (thigh) .. smoking a cigarette)
But I don't know anything about you?
Adam : About me!
Does my lady know anything about this world?
Eve : Sure .. some things.
Adam : I am a part of this world.
Eve : I didn't get it..
Adam : to be happy in this world..
we should have some knowledge and understanding .. some ..
and it can be enough..
Eve : Really! (she recognize that she is late)
here you are, making me late..
Adam : home?
Eve : (in clear sadness) the trap.
Adam : why don't you stay with me?
Eve : Where?
Adam : on that awesome grass..
Eve : on the grass?
Adam : with adjusting the illusion.
Eve : (Dreaming until the end of the play) The illusion.
Adam : this awesome grass would be a house..
Eve : house!
Adam : and when the night falls..
Eve : the night!
Adam : we can climb the wall of their park..
to watch and travel among animals..
Eve : Animals!
Adam : behind the wall, the grass, the light of full moon, the joy of freedom..
Eve : Freedom!
Adam : to hear these whispers and taken breath, to look into the animal's eye..
Eve : the animal's eye!
Adam : (he stands and begins dancing around the wooden bench, around "Eve", around the tree,
and while she laughs out loud, she begins to wail hardly .. a moment of silence ..
darkness falls .. we see nothing on the stage)
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) lets go..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) lets go..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) a wonderful night..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) a wonderful man..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) What can be more beautiful than this moment "Eve"?
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) lets then catch the lost life and time..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) here it is .. this is the wall..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) Hold me .. carry me..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) Come-on..
(a sound of a body fell on the grass .. voices of moaning and laughs)
The End.
(10.June.2005)
***
"A wooden rectangular bench in a main garden .. tree .. time is afternoon .. the girl is sitting on the bench and her back
facing the audience .. in the 30's of her age .. with long brown hair and a light detials in her face, makes her look cute ..
waiting in worry & concern someone ..
"Adam" enters .. in the middle of the 20's .. slim .. moving light .. brown hair .. un-arranged clothes .. he stops to
lean on the tree .. he seems to mumble with some words .. as if he is whispering to him-self .. then he recognize that the
girl sits there .. he gets close."
***
Adam : Excuse me ma'am, can I have a seat?
Eve : (she moves to the left slightly to make wide)
Adam : Thanks.
(After a while of quiet he recognize she is in worry)
sometimes..
it happens to us..
that we fear or to have a little un-comfort for some people..
to be anxious from their appearance..
to be worry from some moves or words come from them..
to be more tension when we have to spend sometime with strangers..
that's what happens to me (Silence)
does it happen to you too?
Eve : (worried and not in a mood to talk) sometimes.
Adam : sometimes! .. that's really sensible.
(the girl moves a little towards the left to be far with tact)
Does it happening now?
Eve : No.
Adam : No! (wondering)
Eve : I mean a little (trying to read a book with her)
Adam : understood .. understood.
(trying to light a cigarette .. and finally he get it done)
This is a really good time..
Now days it's really good when we run away from those deaf buildings..
What's more beautiful than touching this grass!
What's more beautiful than this soft breath or air touching the hair..
of a beautiful woman!
a woman reading..
Oh what a nice cigarette!
It's so hard for a sensible guy to bear those dumb buildings!
(the girl starts to watch him stealthily while she pretends reading ..
Adam stands up walks slowly around the bench while he puts his hands
behind his back .. his voice comes little high singing an old song)
I say as a dove comes near me..
Oh my dear neighbor..
if you know my case..
will a prisoner laugh and free one cries?
will a sad smile and happy one moan?
(he sits down, he find a tiny string coming out from his shirt ..
he lights a match and burn the string from the middle to remove it ..
she begins to watch him while her worry about him is going away ..
and curiosity came instead of it ..
and a smile had drawn on her face ..
Adam recognize this suddenly)
Adam : Zein taught me this.
Eve : Zein?
Adam : sadness stamped on the heart.
What do you read ma'am?
Eve : (Blushing) Nothing .. just about this serial killer.
Adam : Serial Killer! .. that's really sensible.
(Silence again)
do you fear me, ma'am?
Eve : Never.
Adam : then why you run away?
Eve : run away! (wondering) run away from what?
Adam : from a certain thing..
Sure .. sure
there is no woman may come and sit in the garden..
to read the news about the killer.
Eve : Really!
I'm waiting my boyfriend.
Adam : (Clapping his hands with delight)
that's really sensible.
a woman with your beauty won't ever run away..
but she sits, until a man comes to her..
that's really sensible too.
me too..
along ago I used to have my woman..
an amazing woman..
we used to not sit on the bench .. never .. never..
we used to sit on the grass..
she used to lean on this tree..
me too..
I used to sleep, resting my head on her legs, like a baby, smoking my cigarette..
she used to sing to me (he acts the scene to her)
I don't remember this song..
I think it has these words .. "You and I .. I lose control".
Eve : (worry has just gone and she begins to smile for every thing happens)
but he didn't come till now!
Adam : He won't ever find a woman like you in this world.
Eve : flirtation or compliment?
Adam : She used to get naked for me.
Eve : (Blushing) Please.
Adam : (moving to her with a fist full of grass)
Does my lady knows how soft & wet..
this grass can be when night comes?
In the darkness .. when we are alone and naked!
(he throws the grass in his hands on her legs, and he bend to get another fist of grass..
while she tremble standing to get away)
Eve : Please .. don't speak .. I am not your woman .. please.
Adam : (trying to be nice with her)
That was along ago..
In this dusty past..
when I was a stud, In love with all women..
but she tamed me..
and I became only for her (with pain)
then I lost her, and the cursed days came..
Eve : (she comes back and sits again, now they are sitting back to back on the bench)
why he didn't show up till now?
I won't stay longer..
Adam : She used to wait for me if I didn't show up.
Eve : He chose to travel, and he left me alone.
Adam : She used to blow-up laughing out loud until she falls on the grass..
like a pack of fragrant..
Eve : he spoiled my dreams in the house..
Adam : She was adorable when she used to sleep and lick my chest like a kitten..
Eve : We can't stay in the streets all the time..
Adam : She loved to wake-up all the night and create her own imaginations..
saying this world is just a dream..
Eve : Time is passing..
Adam : life is passing..
Eve : love is passing .. and there is nothing left except scolding,
from my mother and her husband..
Adam : she left her family for me..
Eve : (Suddenly stands up impatient)
I won't be patient anymore..
Adam : (Suddenly recognize that she suddenly stands up)
What's wrong my lady?
Eve : Nothing..
nothing..
enough .. I am leaving..
Adam : to the installed trap?
to the lost life?
Eve : don't ask me .. I know .. I don't know..
Adam : I know what you are carrying inside .. this major worry..
let's have a seat..
Eve : Have a seat?!
Adam : and let's cut this bad time..
Eve : the trap time..
leave me please .. Mister..
Adam : "Adam" that's my name.
Eve : I am "Eve".
Adam : beautiful name..
Eve : with an Ugly luck..
Adam : my lady..
we live upon illusions..
every one of us chooses the best illusion for him/her and lives with it and for it..
so if we can change the illusions..
then we can change too..
Eve : illusions?! (wondering while she is sitting)
Adam : that's my opinion.
Eve : I don't know .. but I ..
Adam : excuse me..
our view to the world changes according to the chosen illusion..
Eve : never heard of that!
you amaze me mister Adam.
Adam : Do my lady know the night of animals?
Eve : what?!
Adam : this is their park (pointing to a place out the stage)
Eve : I know.
Adam : Do my lady fond of seeing those animals?
Eve : sure.
Adam : at night?
Eve : (with disapproval and wondering) to go in at night?
Adam : exactly.
Eve : (moves a little away) you must be crazy!
Adam : Do my lady believes what she sees about the animals?
Eve : I don't understand!
Adam : that's sensible .. really sensible.
Eve : how?
Adam : there is no woman like you know that the animals at day are so different than
animals when night comes..
Eve : I can't get it .. I don't understand..
Adam : but I understand..
I tried the darkness and silence with animals..
as this night turns into ashes, coming down slowly..
until we drown in it .. and then sound and light would taste something else..
My lady .. I saw it .. the fear, the death of desire in the eye of the captured animal..
The cracked voice becomes murmuring, a call with fire for a larger space..
in a certain direction..
these cages become great big hands for the hunters..
My Lady .. I saw it with my own eyes .. the sadness of the animal..
Eve : that's amazing..
Adam : to share with it my worries..
belonging to the honesty, the sadness, and the endless longing to the freedom..
oh .. if only my lady can see those eyes..
those eyes which miss so much all this universe..
miss so much .. running, hunting and breaking the cages..
those eyes which dream of certain thing..
more beyond this world..
those wild eyes..
Eve : (she stands up quietly, she sits down on the grass, and he with hesitation puts his head
on her legs (thigh) .. smoking a cigarette)
But I don't know anything about you?
Adam : About me!
Does my lady know anything about this world?
Eve : Sure .. some things.
Adam : I am a part of this world.
Eve : I didn't get it..
Adam : to be happy in this world..
we should have some knowledge and understanding .. some ..
and it can be enough..
Eve : Really! (she recognize that she is late)
here you are, making me late..
Adam : home?
Eve : (in clear sadness) the trap.
Adam : why don't you stay with me?
Eve : Where?
Adam : on that awesome grass..
Eve : on the grass?
Adam : with adjusting the illusion.
Eve : (Dreaming until the end of the play) The illusion.
Adam : this awesome grass would be a house..
Eve : house!
Adam : and when the night falls..
Eve : the night!
Adam : we can climb the wall of their park..
to watch and travel among animals..
Eve : Animals!
Adam : behind the wall, the grass, the light of full moon, the joy of freedom..
Eve : Freedom!
Adam : to hear these whispers and taken breath, to look into the animal's eye..
Eve : the animal's eye!
Adam : (he stands and begins dancing around the wooden bench, around "Eve", around the tree,
and while she laughs out loud, she begins to wail hardly .. a moment of silence ..
darkness falls .. we see nothing on the stage)
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) lets go..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) lets go..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) a wonderful night..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) a wonderful man..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) What can be more beautiful than this moment "Eve"?
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) lets then catch the lost life and time..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) here it is .. this is the wall..
Eve : (a voice from the darkness) Hold me .. carry me..
Adam : (a voice from the darkness) Come-on..
(a sound of a body fell on the grass .. voices of moaning and laughs)
The End.
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