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"DREAM OF A CORPSE."

NEW PLAY

BY

BINA SHARIF

CHARACTERS:

CORPSE

NARRATOR/DREAMER

(AUTHOR'S NOTES)

TWO POSSIBILITES

1: IT CAN BE ONE PERSON PLAY: (Corpse can wake up and become the narrator of his own story)

2: Actor playing the corpse doesn't talk and stay as a dead corpse on a bed and a second actor plays

    the corpse who comes back to life and become the narrator/dreamer of his own story...

STAGE:

(Bare, dimly lit, corpse can be behind a scrim,  candle light near the corpse, white sheet on the actor playing the dead corpse...)

ANOTHER POSSIBILITY, ANOTHER TITLE OF THE PLAY

"ROARING SUCCESS AND A MAJESTIC CORPSE"

NEW PLAY

BY BINA SHARIF

OR

"A CORPSE AND A ROAR."

OR

"DREAM OF A CORPSE"

Authors note:

It can be a one person play or other people in it?

Let's say the title of the play is,

"A CORPSE AND A ROAR"

"A CORPSE DREAMING"

CHARACTER:  THE CORPSE/NARRATOR

CORPSE: (2nd actor, ist actor remains covered  and still on a divan.)

If I ever come back to life, this is how I will live my life...

My life will be a roaring comedy of vicious, mean, selfish, egotistical, narcisstic

greedy, self loving charade.

It will be the undoing of all the things done by me, in my previous life.

Things such as, Kindness, loving others, affection, caring, selflessness, lack of self love,

desire of peace, justice, honesty, equality, freedom, democracy, happy marriage, children etc, etc, etc.

I will be vicious, corrupt, extremely selfish, insensitive, rich, very rich, I will know how to steal without

ever getting caught, that's called smart, a genius, a cunningly clever man.  

I will have boats and goats and planes and farms and drugs of all kind.  Tons of cocain for all my

 criminal friends, wine cellers, vintage wines, champagne, palaces, jewels, caviar, servants, slaves rather,

diamonds stolen from South Africa, big safe in every palace full f money and gold, all the politicians

 and the presidents will be at my mercy, all the leaders of the world will do what I order them to do...

I will be a war mongerer, I will steal all the wealth of every country on this planet...I will be the biggest

 criminal in the whole world.  Every one will shudder at the mention of my name.

I WILL BE A MONSTER, A MONSTER, A MONSTER....

I WILL BE A MONSTER WHO HAD NEVER BEEN BORN BEFORE...

I FINALLY LEARNT A BIG LESSON AFTER MY DEATH AS THE MOST HONORABLE

 GENTLEMAN, HONEST AND POLITE, EDUCATED AND SOPHISTICATED, WITH A

 GENEROUS, GIVING NATURE, COMPASSION FOR HUMANITY, LOVE OF THE POOR,

 AGAINST INJUSTICE,  LOVE OF INDIVDUAL FREEDOM AND DIGNITY...

ONLY AFTER I DIED AND LAY AS A CORPSE FOR SO LONG , I LEARNED THAT MY HONEST

 LIFE WASN'T

WORTH A DIME...

IT WAS A LIFE NOT WELL LIVED....

IN THIS WORLD OF OURS, ONLY THE LIFE OF A MONSTER IS WORTH LIVING...

ONLY A CRIMINAL, AN EXTREMELY CORRUPT MONSTER GETS RESPECT.

I AM BACK TO GAIN RESPECT IN THE WORLD AMONGST THE WORST CRIMINALS AND

MONSTERS OF THE WORLD...

I AM BACK...

DID YOU HEAR ME?

I AM A CORPSE WHO IS BACK...

TO BECOME LIKE YOU,

LIKE ALL OF YOU...

THE MONSTERS...

ONLY AFTER I BECAME A CORPSE

I FULLY UNDERSTOOD THE EVIL WORLD

NOW I AM BACK

I AM A CORPSE

AND I AM BACK

TO TAKE BACK WHAT WAS MINE

WHAT WAS STOLEN FROM ME

MY DIGNITY

MY PRIDE

MY KIND NATURE

MY EDUCATION

MY TENDERNESS OF THE SOUL

MY LOVE OF YOU

MY LOVE FOR YOU

MY SELF RESPECT

I AM BACK TO GET MY SELF RESPECT BACK

IT'S A MIGHTY SHAME THAT IN ORDER TO BE RESPECTED

IN TODAY'S MONSTEROUS WORLD

ONE HAS TO BE A MONSTER

NOW I AM A CORPSE AND A MONSTER

NOW YOU WILL BE FRIGHTEEND OF ME

IT'S SO SAD THAT A GENTLEMAN HAS BEEN INSULTED

FOR BEING A GENTLEMAN

RESPECT WILL BE  CORRUPT LIKE EVERY EVERYTHING ELSE...

I NEVER THOUGHT THAT

WHEN I WAS ALIVE

BUT NOW I AM SURE OF THAT.

PITY, I COULDN'T BE CORRUPT LIKE EVERY ONE ELSE

WHEN I WAS ALIVE

THE WORLD CALLED A CARING PERSON A, "VICTIM"

NO LONGER A VICTIM NOW

NOW I AM A CORPSE

WHO IS BACK...

AND WON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN

I WILL BE LIKE ALL OF YOU

GREEDY, CORRUPT, CRIMINAL THIEVES AND BASTARDS...

 IMAGINE!

I HAD TO DIE TO BE LIKE ALL OF YOU

BUT THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DEAD MAN AND ME

IS THAT I AM BACK TO TAKE BACK WHAT WAS STOLEN FROM FROM ME,

MY DIGNITY, MY SELF RESPECT, MY GOOD NATURE, MY GOOD NAME

AND MY HONEST SOUL.