Deadly Seven E-Book

Tina Papados

• Herausgeber: AKAKIA Publications
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 68

Beschreibung

Deadly Seven is a combination of monologues and ‘light’ script engagement of a psychologist with her seven clients, who each represent a deadly sin. Once the psychologist realises she lacks control over each of her clients’ lives, she decides to put an end to their madness. All characters represent an obsession which ultimately destroys them; leading to their deaths.

Leseprobe

TINA PAPADOS

Look like th’innocent flower,

But be the serpent under’t

.

[Shakespeare, Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 5]

Copyright © Tina Papados 2015

Published in England by AKAKIA Publications, 2015Tina PapadosDEADLY SEVENISBN: 978-1-910714-56-0 Copyright © Tina Papados 2015CopyrightHouse.co.uk ID: 183977Cover Image:

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Contents

Prologue [The Psychologist]

Deadly I.

I. Giorgio

I. Warren

I. Larisa

I. Greg

I. Priscilla

I. Eleanor

I. Stefano

Deadly II.

II. Giorgio

II. Warren

II. Larisa

II. Greg

II. Priscilla

II. Eleanor

Deadly III.

III. Giorgio

III. Warren

III. Larisa

III. Greg

III. Priscilla

Deadly IV.

IV. Giorgio

IV. Warren

IV. Larisa

IV. Greg

Deadly VII.

VII. Giorgio

Deadly V.

V. Giorgio

V. Warren

V. Larisa

Deadly VI.

VI. Giorgio

VI. Warren

PrologueThe Psychologist

Freud conveyed in his writings that our dreams represent unconscious wishes – they reveal all theissues we’re afraid to express in our ‘waking’ life.

This explains why our dreams often leave us finding ourselves in a disoriented and frightened [conscious]state of mind.

But the problem was that none of my clients belonged to the natural world; their dreams exposed the darkest desires of the flesh.

Everyone kept warning me about my job, telling me it was an illness.

I’d say, the illness is in you.

[Take an apple,

and nourish yourself]

I never pick my clients, they choose me.

I suppose these seven also picked their deadly sins. Perhaps I choose [the apples] for them.

It didn’t really matter.

My role was to bring everyone back on track.

--But these seven brought me back to the garden of Eden.

I’m a Historian, so I have this natural instinct to look back into the past.

I often get criticized for exploiting my Frankenstein ego,

but someone has to.

My secret was, to always look into the soul of a being;

Always search for the child within.

For if you follow my technique,

You leave no room for fear.

My clients were like snakes.

I tried to nourish [them] with my apples,

yet they destroyed me.

It was insane because, well --I’m a psychologist.

It has always been a duty to keep everything under control. I always do.

But none of them would come to terms with me.

I was undervalued, and

somehow, deprived from my counselling.

I suppose, that, was when I finally realised – I couldn’t get rid of their deadly sins.

I could have easily replaced them with obedient clients. But it wasn’t just that. The situation got worse. I was somehow threatened by their existence.

One, by two [by seven];

They became parts of me.

Funny, you would’ve thought.

How a psychologist of stability and order

would allow

chaos

to take over.

But I came to quick terms with myself.

For each life that fails to obey me;

must come to an end.

Everyone always mocked me for my God complex.

--I say, one of us needs the power to pass or fail you.

“You can’t play God”, they said.

--Then I’ll play the sinner.

Deadly II. Giorgio

Before we begin, I’d just like to confirm that I’m a man – and us men don’t need therapy. I never needed therapy, that’s right – I will never need therapy. You know why? Because I know, and I’ve always known, who I was.

I am a man and us men

don’t need therapy.

Let’s not call our sessions ‘therapy’, Giorgio. It’s a simple way of releasing all the tension without requiring you to prove your manhood.

That surely is one way of seeing it. But I’ve always been a man.

Shall I begin?

That would be great.

I am a man of order, I am a man of discipline.

But somehow I find myself aggressively seeking for more in life – that probably makes me a perfectionist.

Men can be perfectionists too, right?

I’ll just get straight to the point –I was always repressed as a child.

Take me back to your childhood –where do you feel this repression originated from?

Perhaps you were pressured by your parents?

Oh, definitely. I always saw myself as the second son they never had. But I felt they never really believed in me,

[my Manhood]

I turned into the man I am today, and I must say;

I [primarily] became who I was, knowing that I wouldn’t have achieved

many things -- wealth, women or success

without it.

[Stefano] works less, yet he earns more {money; fame and the best actress};

And all I am, is an incomplete man Dissatisfied; for I can never win.

--I am so sick of this cycle.

[Stefano, my brother] earns success; a form of happiness which I don’t think I’ve ever been exposed to.

His success was like cocaine to me;

He, being the older brother, decided to keep it all to himself

--And I haven’t had enough of it.

I HAVEN’T HAD ENOUGH OF IT.

FAME, WOMEN, WEALTH

he should have given it all to ME.

It is natural to be competitive.

I have always been aggressive at work.

Whatever I do, it’s never enough. I am unfulfilled.

I am unsatisfied.

It’s not so much about the women,

or the money --or the fame itself.

I think, it’s more about how my manhood is integrated

within all these things.

The money,

the fame

and the women.

It will never be enough,

Unless it elevates me

to a higher sense of being

to the greatest Man,

that I could be.

I think it’s time Stefano becomes long forgotten to the world. He was no gift.

This predator instinct crawls within me and all these voices,

they keep telling me to bring his life to an end.

You need to man up to your brother

You need to man up to your brother.

I was made for greater things than greed.

I’m not going to lie – I’m filled with greed;

because that’s what all men are. Greedy.

But our Greed alone is not enough.

In my mind I always felt that even the greediest men of them all have achieved something powerful, at least once

in their whole lifetime.

And here I am, still searching.

I must find that man within.

Do not believe in boys with shy eyes; who carry sad smiles.

Do not believe in girls who roar back at the prisoners

within their minds.

I can tell you, they are nothing but

bad actors.

-- And they have all failed.

For all these actors, they are lost

with skin that never felt at home;

so they carve it into art.

Carved skin, out of the soles beneath their shoes;

these actors keep on running.

I. Warren

I must say, I truly find your position as a psychologist quite desirable. I often dream about ‘playing God’ in my [subconscious] mind as well.

You’re not a sinner nor an angel. Yet somehow you acknowledge both and you’re Greater than that.

I wouldn’t say that any one of us could truly be in charge of a man’s Life decisions --though it is desirable having a great amount of influence.

I’m sure you’ve come across circumstances in your work, whereby, you somehow take charge. Of their Life.

I think it’s great. Believe me, I know the feeling.

I’m a doctor, so I deal with a lot of Lives. A LOT of Lives. You know,

Lives that also Die.

The West now begins to taste its own medicine.

I was born and raised in Kenya, oh God, it seems so long ago. So far away from here too. I don’t think I’d ever want to go back.