THERAPIST AND A PATIENT

THERAPIST AND A PATIENT

A.K.A

THE ANGRY ONES

A NEW PLAY

BY

BINA SHARIF

CHARACTERS

PATIENT (CONSCIOUSNESS)

SUBCONSCIOUSNESS)

THERAPIST

copyright: binasharif:2016

SCENE ONE:

PATIENT:

There are other things in the world beside BB,AB, SD, AS, DO, O,T,P...

THERAPIST:

For example?

PATIENT:

Health...

THERAPIST:

Whose health?

PATIENT:

My health.  My health is a gem.

THERAPIST:

That's good.  That's very good.  Its very positive.  I didn't expect that from you

PATIENT:

What do you mean?

THERAPIST:

You are mostly negative

PATIENT:

Perhaps you have helped me...

THERAPIST:

I hope so...

PATIENT:

Maybe I should stop seeing you hen?

THERAPIST: (Little nervous)

No, no,no.  You are not there yet...

PATIENT:

Where?

THERAPIST:

At the level when is labelled, "Normal"

PATIENT:

Oh1 so I am not normal/

THERAPIST:

You are not abnormal but you are hostile

PATIENT:

Actually being hostile is very normal in today's world.  Hostile, angry, aggressive, miserable,

that's all normal and I came from another F***ing world where they told us that education

is essential to survive in this advanced, developed, free world and education teaches one to be polite

but the developed world is evil and aggressive and selfish.  Its called, "individualism"

and is considered norma.  But you are implying that me being hostile is abnormal.  o you can afford

to be hostile and still be normal but if I exert myself in the style of the western individuals I am

considered abnormal...is that it?

THERAPIST:

You are angry

PATIENT:

So should I jump up and down and dance and do a litany of thanks to te world?

PATIENT:

What has this world done to you?

PATIENT:

You have to ask?

THERAPIST:

How would I know if you don't tell me?

PATIENT:

You are the therapist, you must know what happened to me?

THERAPIST:

What happened to you?

PATIENT:

How the F*** would I know...

THERAPIST:

You just said, "something happened to you"

PATIENT:

I didn't say that.  I said, " you are supposed to know what happened to my life"  You are a therapist

you need to know.  Its your profession.

THERAPIST:

Why are you here?

PATIENT:

So you can treat me

THERAPIST:

Are you ill?

PATIENT:

I don't know

THERAPIST;

Who is supposed to know?

PATIENT:

You do.  You take my money.  You know and you don't know then you should know.

THERAPIST:

You don't pay me enough fo me to know that you are ill or not

PATIENT:

I give you all my money.  No one F***ing pay me and who ever pays me some pennies I give it to

you.  What else the F*** do you want from me?

THERAPIST:

You curse a lot.  Where are you from?

PATIENT:

I have been F***ing seeing you for 10 years and now you ask me where am I from?  Is this a joke or

 something?

THERAPIST:

I thought you were a Muslim

PATIENT:

Lets not go there, ok?  What do you want to call the FBI?

"Say something when you see something"

Is that what you are doing?

You see something?

Han, do you see something?

Do you want to say something when you see something?

I am sure you see me.  I am quiet fat.  You can't miss seeing me.  Now you want to say something?

After taking all my money for 10 years you want to say something?

Is that it?

I know this sentence, :Say something when you see something."

I hear it constantly when I am in the F***ing subway.  I see a lot...All the F***ing time I see something.

I see the mad crowds shuffling and hustling

I see the homeless on the platforms

I see the garbage

Oh! do I see the garbage

What should I say, "Oh1 hi, I see the garbage...so much garbage...tons of garbage...

who should I inform about it?

I see the F***ing dogs, ferocious dogs coming at me to bite my thigh...who should I inform about it?

I see bicycle riders coming at full speed cursing at me to get out of the way...who should I inform...

I see backpacks breaking my ribs in the subway..."Say something when you see something"

Tell me what does this sentence means?

You are the therapist.  Help me out here.  What does this mean?

Tell me what does this sentence means?  And who do they want to be informed about?

Tell me, it disturbs me whenever I hear it in the subway...in fact whenI heard it for the first time it

disturbed me so much that I thought that I should seek therapy and thats when I started to F***ing

see you and now after 10 years of you taking my money, you are implying that there is some Muslim

issue involved in this F***ing sentence...Is that what it is?

THERAPIST:

You are paranoid...

PATIENT:

Yes, I am paranoid.  Right.  Everything is so F***ing great and I am so abnormal after 10 years of

therapy that I am paranoid when you imply that I should say something when I see something.  I see

you.  I see you, a failed therapist, a hostile therapist, a racist therapist, a prejudiced therapist...who

should I call?

THERAPIST:

What is it that bother you most of the time/

PATIENT:

How the f*** would I know?  I come to you to find out.  If I knew what bothers me I would sit the

 F*** down and write a novel about it but you don't let me talk...

THERAPIST:

I don't let you talk?  Thats a joke.  You are the most talkative patient I have ever encountered...

PATIENT:

What else the F*** you want me to do?  Sit here silently like a corpse till your bell rings and you announce,
"Time is up."  Yeh, yeh, time is up...Your time is always up without solving any of my problems.

You hardly talk and then you say, "Time is up."

I wish I was a therapist instead of being a patient.  Then I will take every body's money and say a

word or two in one hour and then say, time is up.  Every one is hustling.  Its all a hustle. All a

F***ing hustle.

THERAPIST:

Why don't you hustle as well?

PATIENT:

I f***ing didn't know the word, "HUSTLE" back home.  They told us, "Educate yourself"

"educate yourself.  Study till 4am and you will get places."

'Places" My big behind.  You go to hell without a hustle.  We didn't know the word hustle...

THERAPIST:

You have lived here for so long, you should have learned the word, "Hustle."

PATIENT:

So you do agree with me that its all a f***ing hustle...

THERAPIST:

I don't agree but since you are emphasizing the word, "Hustle"  You should have learned.

PATIENT:

Yeh, right, its so easy for every one to say things to others without knowing shit.

You of all people should know that whatever one doesn't learn growing up

becomes absolutely hard to learn in later years.  Didn't your colleague, Freud said,

childhood's experience is the only experience towards your development.

Arn't we trying to go back to our childhood on your couch to find out our earlier

assets and drawbacks?  The word,"HUSTLE" is not in my conscious or subconscious or whatever

the fuck that other stuff called, ID and Ego is...

Yes, surprise surprise...I know some so called important words often used in psychotherapy...

conscious, subconscious etc, etc, etc.

I should go ahead and F***ing buy a couch and make you lie down in it and ask you condescending

questions and ring the bell and say, "time is up."  and take all your money and send me back to the

 F***ing subway where they are announcing non stop, "Say something when you see something."

What the f*** should I say?

THERAPIST:

We have a lot of work to do together to get you healthy...You are very angry but, (she picks up the

bell from her table and ring it) "TIME IS UP."

END OF FIRST SCENE

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