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

BLACK OUT

TWIN CONTINUES

TWIN

You feel unloved?

Tell your twin to love you

Do you have other difficulties in every day life?

Tell your twin to help you.

You have twin

Do you know how lucky you are?

How many people have twins who stay with them every second of the day?

You have a therapist, a doctor, a physical trainer, an adviser, a friend, a companion, a relative

With the same DNA, same Immune system, same language, same eating habits,

Same bad habits, Same good habits....your twin even cries with you when you are sad which is so

often....


Your twin is the only one who shares your talent

Your twin is the only one who takes you out for a walk, for a coffee, for a meal,

Why do you want any one else when you have your twin by your side?

Why do you want any one else to help you?

You are not alone

You have a twin

Your twin is very talented

Your twin is very kind

Your twin is very Imaginative, very creative, very hard working, very sensitive...

Seek help only from your twin and no one else...

Your twin is the only person who knows you

Your twin is the only one who is close to you, is aware of the fact that you are

here by yourself and need help, need company and is willing to help you

Seek help only from your twin...

You seem to forget that you do have a twin who has the same interests like you...

Same needs like you and is not from this country...

Your twin is not a stranger to you, not a boss, not an employer,, not a police man, not a prosecutor...

Your twin was born with you...

Your twin is of the same parents...of the same country...speaks the same language, eats the same food

have the same taste buds, same style, have the same ambitions, same losses, same experiences,

Same joys, same sorrows...your actions,

Its much easier for your twin to include you in the center of the game, bring you in from the edges

right to the center of the arena...

Your twin respects your rights, your expressions, your thoughts,...

Your twin understands your language, your moods, your desires, your disappointments,

Your loneliness here in a country of other men.....

Your twin understands your silence, your gestures, your humanism.

Your twin is not a stranger....

Your twin is a friend...
your forwardness,


A dear friend...

A dear, dear friend...

Let your twin love you...

Allow your twin to love you, to help you, to accompany you when you go out.

Allow your twin to participate in your ambition, your endeavors,

Your dark moods, your brooding, your regrets....

You have neglected your twin for a long time, underestimated for a long time...

You never consulted your twin for any thin for a long, long time

You actually excluded your twin from your life and felt so horribly alone in a country

which is not yours, amongst people who are not your people, strangers who remained strangers...

You excluded your twin ruthlessly from your life.

Include your lovely twin in your life

Your twin has a name

Your twin has a shape, a mind, an aesthetic sense, beauty, cultivation, sophistication,

Your twin has been very hurt from neglect, neglect of all kinds for a long, long time...

Make it up to your twin, include your twin for real advice, for consultation, for bravery

So it can bring you to the center of things, center of life, center of you...

The twin and its reason has been forgotten for so long...that even you yourself forgot

That you have a twin....

Why must you look upto total un-caring, un-loving, un-caring strangers, total strangers,

Phony friends, aggressive, un-just authority figures to include you in happenings?

Why should they include you in anything? This is not your country...These are not your people..
.
These are not your loved ones.

These are not your relatives...

These are not your friends, thats for sure...They are not even your friends.

WHY SHOULD THEY INCLUDE YOU IN ANYTHING?

PLEASE ANSWER ME THAT

ANSWER ME ONCE AND FOR ALL

AND SETTLE ONCE AND FOR ALL...

Make up with your long lost twin...

ASK YOUR TWIN TO INCLUDE YOU

IN EVERYTHING YOU DO

AND YOU YOURSELF INCLUDE YOUR TWIN IN EVERYTHING YOU DO,

EVERYTHING YOU WANT TING YOU DOWN DO, EVERYTHING YOU DESIRE TO DO...

YOUR TWIN WILL LET YOU DO IT

YOUR TWIN WON'T BE CONDESCENDING LIKE OTHERS

YOUR TWIN WOULD LIKE YOUR SKIN COLOR

YOUR TWIN WON''T BE PUTTING YOU DOWN

YOUR TWIN WON'T ASK YOU, " WHERE ARE YOU FROM?"

YOUR TWIN WON'T BE RACIST TOWARD YOU

YOUR TWIN IS OF THE SAME COLOR LIKE YOU, OF THE SAME COUNTRY LIKE YOU,

BORN OF THE SAME PARENTS LIKE YOU, SPEAKS THE SAME LANGUAGE LIKE YOU,

HAVE THE SAME PAIN LIKE YOU, SAME LOVE LIKE YOU, SAME SADNESS LIKE YOU...

YOUR TWIN HAS LOTS OF SADNESS

BOTH OF YOUCAN SHARE EACH OTHERS SADNESS....

YOU CAN DIVIDE YOUR TASK OF LIVING BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR TWIN...

THE BURDEN OF LIVING WILL LIGHTEN BY SHARING THE GRIEF...

BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE THINGS WILL BE DONE FASTER...

YOU WERE NEVER ALONE

ITS JUST THAT YOU FORGOT THE EXISTENCE OF YOUR TWIN...

EXCLUSION OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL TWIN BY YOU HAVE HURT YOU IN THE PAST

YOU HAVE BEEN SO LONELY AND RUNNING AFER PEOPLE, FAKE FRIENDS,

WASTING YOUR LOVE....

FROM NOW ON DEPEND ONLY ON YOUR TWIN FOR COMPANY, FOR COMFORT, FOR

LAUGHTER, FOR ADVICE....

NO ONE ELSE..

I EMPHASIS,  NO ONE ELSE.  NO ONE ELSE IS TO BE TRUSTED,NO ONE ELSE IS YOUR

FRIEND.  YES, I MEAN IT.  YOU HAVE TRIED.  GOD KNOWS YOU HAVE TRIED

GIVE UP ON THAT.....


TRUST ONLY YOUR TWIN, LOVE ONLY YOUR TWIN, INCLUDE ONLY YOUR TWIN...

NO ONE ELSE, NO ONE ELSE, NO ONE ELSE.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

YOU HAVE YOUR BEAUTIFUL TWIN BY YOUR SIDE, YOUR TALENTED TWIN, YOUR

LOVING TWIN BY YOUR SIDE.

BECAUSE YOU ARE YOUR TWIN













To a movie, to a play,

TWIN

TWIN

Include yourself in the game

Its all a game

Play it

Damn it

Play it...

Be part of the game

You, yourself come inside the center

You, yourself remove yourself from the periphery

And move to the center.

Stay away from exclusion

Bring yourself from the outside right into the inside.

Don't wait anyone else to do it for you

You do it yourself

Inch by inch...

Inch by Inch

Inch in

Include yourself in the game

Don't wait for any one else to bring you to the arena

You get there and go to the center

First of all you need to belong

Belong?

Yes, belong

Belong to whom?

Belong to yourself.

Include yourself in your own life...

Be center stage in your play...

Be center stage

The play that you are in

Don't stand in the wings

Be centerstage

The play that you are in...

The play which is your life

Yes, your life is a play

Play the lead role

Be centerstage in your life

If you exclude yourself from your own life

Why would anyone else include you in anything?

Listen to me

I am your twin

Listen....

If you haven't understood yet....

Let me remind you

This is not your country...

It will never be your country

You left your country

You left your family

You left your job

You left everything behind

Now you want to find all that you lost, you find to find that here

In some one else's country

These are not your people

Not your family

Not your friends

Not your acquaintances either

Neither are they your neighbors...

They are all strangers...

What do you expect from them?

Why should they do anything for you?

Why?

Why do you want equal rights here?

Why do you want respect here?

Dignity here?

Why would they give it to you?

Why would they think of you?

Why?

Whatever you need you have to get it for yourself

Whatever is essential for your life, you have to get it for yourself

You want to have fun?

Go ahead, have fun...

You want to go to a movie?

Go ahead, go to a movie...

You want money?

Go ahead, earn it..

You want to be slim?

Go make yourself slim...

You feel lonely?

Don't

You feel disrespected

Don't

Respect yourself to begin with

Give yourself equal rights

Give yourself everything instead of giving it to them....

They are not your people

Don't waste your time

Don't waste your affection on them

Don't waste your talent on them

You want to be successful?

Get up and make yourself successful

You want a clean apt?

Clean it

Get it cleaned

You want to see your sister?

Go see your sister

You want to help some one?

Get up and help

You don't want to help any one?

Don't

Don't help any one here

They are not your people

How many people have helped you her?

Can't think of any

This is not your country

Thats why

These are not your people

Thats why...

You want to be liked?

Tell your twin to like you

You want to be loved?

Tell your twin to love you

You have a twin

Don't forgrt

Your twin is the only other human being you have in this country which is not your country

Your twin is the only person who was born with you in your own country

The country you left behind

Now just love your twin

Tell your twin to love you...

Tell your twin to help you

At least you have a twin

You must not feel lonely

Talk to your twin

Listen to your twin....

You have a twin

Don't forget...

Forget about every one else

They are not your people....

Twin is the only one

The only one

The only one.....

DEPRESSED TODAY?

DEPRESSED TODAY?

dEPRESSED TODAY?

Causes unknown

Causes ?

The same...

Same as always

Depressed for a life

A life time

It has its reasons

No one understands

WHORES AND ALL THAT

WHORES AND ALL THAT

She is a cunt

And the other one is also a cunt

The first cunt is bigger than the second cunt

And the second cunt is much bigger than the first cunt

Perhaps they are both of the same size

Plus+ Plus+ Plus size both of them

ALL CAME BACK

ALL CAME BACK

Sorrow has come back

Sorrow never went away

I brought it here with me

Now the F is good

Now the new problem

Which is an old problem

Has come back...

Or haven't gone away yet

Haven't gone away at all...
...................................

ALL CAME BACK

ALL CAME BACK

It all came back

Came back in a weeks time

D with a big D

Doesn't go away go away

Culture tragedy of family

Has left me so sorrowful

the darkness of the soul

All the time

I thought it was gone

But it came back

Only one week

There was some sunshine

But the darkness has come back