DREAM WTHIN A DREAM

DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

SCENES....(POSSIBILTY OF CHANGE IN THE ORDER OF SCENES)

ALL ACTORS DRESSED IN WHITE

SCENE ONE....ACTORS ENETR IN THE DARK WITH FLASH LIGHTS, THEY SCATTER

THEMSELVES ALL OVER STAGE, MOVE IN A SLOW MOTION MANNER, CLASSICAL

MUSIC PLAYS IN THE BACK GROUND. TWO OF THE ACTORS, ME AND KEVIN SIT

DOWNSTAGE LEFT AT A COFFEE TABLE.  THE REST OF THE ACORS SIT ON THE SIDES

OF THE THEATER

SCENE TWO:   DANCER DANCE CENTER STAGE

SCENE THREE:  CAFE TABLE SCENE....WAITER AND TWO ACTORS ?

(THE LADY ACTRESS ASKS ANOTHER ACTRESS,)

ACTRESS:  WHAT'S YOUR NAME?

2ND ACTRESS;  SALOME

MALE ACTOR:  SALOME, DANCE FOR ME

ACTRESS:  DON'T DANCE MY DEAR, DON'T DANCE

MALE ACTOR:  SALOME DANCE FOR ME...I WILL GIVE YOU A GREAT REVIEW

                           I AM ALSO A CRITIC AND A VERY POWERFUL ONE.  YOUR LIFE WILL

IMMEDIATELY CHANGE AFTER MY REVIEW.  YOU WILL BE THE DARLING OF NY

THEATER, LONDON THEATER, YOU WILL HAVE THE TONY, THE OLIVIER AWARD,

MONEY, MOVIE CONTRACTS, JUST DANCE FOR ME AND YOU WILL HAVE EVERY

THING YOU HAVE EVER WANTED IN LIFE AND EVEN MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE.

OUR CULTURE DEMANDS MORE, MORE, MORE.  NOTHING IS ENOUGH AND WITH MY

 DAZZLING REVIEW YOU WILL HAVE MORE AND MORE AND MORE OF EVERYTHING.

MONEY, FAME, SEX,LOTS OF SEX, I ROMISE YOU, EVERY PRODUCER WANTS TO

SLEEP

WITH A MOVIE STAR AND YOU MIGHT EVEN HAVE LOVE WHICH IS VERY HARD TO

HAVE IN OUR CAPITALIST SOCIETY BUT YOU MIGHT JUST HAVE BUCKETS FULL OF

FAKE LOVE....THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH.  ALL YOU HAVE TO DO SALOME IS TO DANCE

FOR ME.

ACTRESS:  SALOME, DON'T DANCE FOR HIM.  HE BRINGS NOTHING BUT

DESTRUCTION.  THE WHITE MAN IS BACK TO DESTROY.

MALE ACTRESS (TO THE ACTRESS)  YOU NKEEP QUIET.  MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

ITS BETWEEN ME AND SALOME AND I KNOW SHE WILL DANCE FOR ME.  NO

ACTRESS

CAN AFFORD NOT TO OBEY THE MOST POWERFUL CRITIC IN THE WORLD.

ACTRESS:  BUT YOU ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD....

MALE ACTOR:  I AM OF THIS WORLD AND OF THE OTHER WORLD.  I BELONG TO

HEAVEN AND HELL.  THAT IS MY POWER.  ONCE POWERFUL, ALWAYS POWERFUL.

I TRANSMIT MY POWER TO YOU SALOME, DANCE FOR ME...

SCENE THREE:  ONE OF THE ACTRESS GETS UP AND STARTS TO DANCE...EROTIC AND

EXOTIC DANCE.  (MIDDLE EASTERN NUSIC PLAYS)

SCENE FOUR:

MALE ACTOR:  BRAVA, BRAVA, BRAVA...

ACTRESS:  END OF THE WORLD IS HERE...

MALE ACTOR:  WORLD HAS ALREADY ENDED SO THERE IS NO DANGER

(TO SALOME)  GET READY FOR THE REWARD

ACTRESS: (TO SALOME) HE IS A LIER.  LIKE A POLITICIAN WHO PROMISE THE WORLD

 BEORE HIS WIN AND AFTER THAT HE GOES AND PLAYS GOLF.  THATS IT.  HONEY, HE

WON'T EVEN REMEBER THAT YOU EVER DANCED FOR HIM.  I BET YOU HE WON'T

EVEN MENTION YOU IN HIS REVIEW IF THERE IS A REVIEW AT ALL IF THE PLAY

EVER

BEGINS.  ONLY DEATH IS GOING TO BE YOUR REWARD.  BUT MAYBE

YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT IT ANY MORE.  MAYBE YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD.  WHY DO

YOU WANT A TONY WHEN YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD?

MALE ACTOR:  TONY AND OLIVIER ARE THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT AWARDS FOR A

SERIOUS ACTRESS LIVING OR DEAD....(TO SALOME)  YOU WILL BE REWARDED..
.
YOU MIGHT HAVE TO DANCE ONE MORE TIME BEFORE THE PLAY ENDS AND THIS

TIME WITH SEVEN VEILS....THE VEILS WERE MISSING, SEEMS LIKE I CAME TO

REVIEW A VERY LOW BUDGET PERFORMANC  E...OH! OH! THE ACTORS ARE IN

TROUBLE ...ME  BROADWAY CRITIC , A GIANT, A GOD OF THE NY THEATER SITTING

IN

THIS DARK ROOM WITH NO SET, NO PROPS, NO VEIL FOR SALOME, NOT EVEN AN

ACTOR PLAYING A WAITER IN SIGHT...     (CLAPS HIS HANDS) LET THE

PLAY BEGINS...(DANCER GOES BACK AND SIT DOWN)

ACTRESS:  WAIT, I WANT MY TEA FIRST I CAN'T BEGIN ANYTHING WITHOUT MY

FIRST CUP OF TEA... WHERE IS THE WAITER?

SCENE FIVE:  WAITER, (UPSTAGE RIGHT IN A SPOT LIGHT)

(DOES MORE OF HIS MONOLOGUE)

SCENE SIX:  LITLE LIGHT ON THE DANCERS.

DANCER NO 1:  I AM RESTLESS

DANCER NO 2:  ME TOO

DANCER NO 1: I AM LONELY

DANCER NO 2:  ME TWO

DANER NO 1:  I AM RESTESS AND LONELY

DANCER NO 2:  THATS NOT POSSIBLE

DANER NO I:  WHY NOT?

DANVER NO 2:  YOU CAN EITHER BE RESTLESS OR LONELY

DANCER NO 1:  WHY?

DANCER NO 2:  LONELINESS CANT BE ACCOMPANIED BY ANYTHING.

RESTLESSNESS IS OPPOSITE OF LONELINESS.  LONELINESS HAS NO COMPANION.

LONELINESS IS JUST LONELY....

DANCER NO 2;  I WILL TAKE RESTLESSNESS ANY TIME

DANCER NO 1:  RESTLESSNESS IS NOT PART OF THE PLAY, LONELINESS IS...

EVERY ONE IS GOING TO DO MONOLUGES ABOUT LONELINESS IN THIS PLAY

DANCER NO2:  HOW DO YOU KNOW?

DANCER NO1:  I READ THE PLAY

DANCER NO 2;  YOU READ THE PLAY?

DANCER NO 1:  YES

DANCER NO 2: WHEN?

DANCER NO 1:  WHEN I CAME TO AUDITION

DANCER NO 2  HOW COME?

DANER NO 1:  THE DIRECTOR GAVE ME THE PLAY

DANCER NO 2:  WHO IS THE DIRESTOR?

DANCER NO 1: (POINTS AT THE MALE ATOR)  OVER THERE...

DANCER NO 2:  I THOUGHT HE WAS THE CRITIC

DANVER NO 1: HE IS THE CRITIC AS WELL AS THE DIRECTOR.  HE IS ALSO THE

PRODUCER.  THAT'S WHY I DANCED FOR HIM

DANCER NO 2:  HOW COME HE HAS SO MANY ROLES?

DANCER NO 1:  HE IS WHITE.  WHITE AMERICAN MALE...DESCENDENTS OF GREEKS.

THEY RULED THE WORLD FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS....THEY WERE THE WINNERS,

THEY STARTED THE OLYMPICS...  THEY WERE WHITE. NO ONE CAN BEAT A WHITE

MAN...

SCENE SEVEN:

MALE ACTOR"  (TO THE ACTRESS)  YOU HAVE TO START THE PLAY

ACTRESS:  NOT TILL I HAVE MY TEA....

SCENE EIGHT  WAITER FINISHES THE REST OF HIS MONOLOGUE AND THEN COMES

TO THE CAFE TABLE

SCENE NINE:  WAITER:  GOOD MORNING, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE?

ACTRESS:  COFFEE FOR MY FRIEND AND A HOT CUP OF TEA FOR ME...

WAITER:  SURE THING

(WAITER GOES AND COME BACK WITH COFFEE AND TEA

WAITER:  HERE IS COFEE FOR YOU AND HOT TEA FOR THE LADY.

I HAVE ALSO BROUGHT A SHOT OF WHISKEY FOR BOTH OF YOU.  ITS SNOWING

OUTSIDE, HORRIBLY COLD, YOU MUST BE FREEZING.  WHERE ARE YOUR COATS?

HOW CAN YOU BE WITHOUT COATS IN THIS WEATHER?  HAVE SOME WHISKY, IT

WILL WARM YOU UP....

ACTEESS:  WE ARE NOT COLD, NO NT AT ALL.  WE DON'T NEED COATS.  WE ARE

VERY

HOT.  WE CAME DOWN FROM HELL....TO DO THE PLAY...

MALE ACTOR:  LET THE PLAY BEGIN.. .PLACES

ACTRESS:  WE ARE FROM ANOTHER WORLD BUT THE PLAY IS GOING TO BE ABOUT

YOUR WORLD, (Points towards the audiene.)

(LIGHTS DIM, ACTRESS  MVES AWAY FROM THE CAFE AREA, GOES CENTER STAGE

UNDER A SPOT LIGHT)

SCENE TEN

ACTRESS:  MONOLOGUE ABOUT TO DO THE PLAY OR NOT TO DO THE PLAY....

ALSO A SCENE WHERE SOME ONE COMES AND MURDER HER

THEN ANTHER SCENE WHERE SHE GETS ARRESTED IN THE RESTURANT.

(I AM NOT SURE IF THIS SCENE IS ALSO ABOUT ASKING THE ACTORS TO BE IN HER PLAY AND THEY REFUSE?)

SCENE 11: RESTURANT SCENE, PLAYWRIGHT AND MANGER ARRESTING HER

SCENE 12"  LONELINESS MONOLGUE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE

SCENE 13;  DANCE

SCENE 14  IMMIGRATION SCENE, CUSTOM OFFICER AND THE LADY IMMIGRANT

SCENE 15, MONOLOGUE ABOUT FEELING AT HOME AFTER THE CUSTOM OFFICER

SCENE 16:  CRITIC'S FIRST MONOLOGUE

SCENE 17:  PERFORMANCCE ART SCENE, NOT GETTING TO THE EAST SIDE OR WEST

SIDE TO PERFORM WITH MUSIC AND MOVEMENTS...

SCENE 18:  LOELINESS MONOLOUGE IN ANOTHER LANNGUAGE, SPANISH MAYBE

SCENE 19:  WEDDING MONOLOGUE

SCENE 20:  CRITICS SECOND MONOLOGUE...PARTY MUSIC, LOUD LAUGHTER, NOISES,

CLUB KIND OF SOUNDS....THEY ALL DANCE.... AND THEN EXIT DANCING

LIGHTS

END OF PLAY