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Character Profiles and Monologues

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Character Profile:

Character: The Therapist / Narrator

Age: late 20s

Purpose in the play: Help the main character/ daughter get over her fear/
obsession with death

Benefits of merging the Narrator and the Therapists:

- If they are merged, the therapist can help guide the daughter better
on how to get better, since she would have an outsider point of view
to offer.
- The therapist could also help explain the story better to the audience
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Disadvantages of not merging the Narrator and the Therapists:

Monologue (Therapist to Daughter – First Scene):

Hello, please lie down on that couch over there. After reading your
previews therapist’s report, I’ve concluded that you seem to have developed
thanatophobia, which is more commonly called death anxiety. Your fear of
death seems to have caused you an unhealthy obsession. But I'd like to
inform you that this obsession is very common, and that you're not alone
in what you're feeling.
But today we’re here to talk about you, and how to help you get better.
First, to get over an obsession you must know what it is. An obsession is
caused by the inability to tolerate painful emotions, like fear or grief.

Okay so, how is that going to help me?

Well first, I’d like you to tell me when you started to see these
hallucinations?

Well... I first had one about a year ago, around the time that-. Around the
time of my mother's death.

Could you tell me more about that?

(Lights out. Mother / Daughter scene)

Monologue (Therapist/Narrator to audience):

Hello, what you are about to see is the journey of a young girl who’s lost
her mother, trying to overcome her obsession with death. Have you ever
had an obsession? If yes, then do you think you’ve handled it properly?
When we’re obsessed, we fail to see it as obsession but rather as something
that’ll go away if we get justice, or the person apologizes etc. But that’s not
the answer, true obsessives instead find another obsession. People tend to
obsess because of the inability to tolerate painful emotions such as grief, or
fear.

You know what Death? You’re not so scary to me anymore. It’s kind
of ironic isn’t it? That since my mother's death I’ve been so afraid of
what would happen if I died, that I haven’t been properly living. I
mean since then, I’ve been trapped in a shell of my own making. I
thought to myself, this shell will protect me. It will prevent any pain
from reaching me. But instead, it sheltered me from all the wonder of
life, and all the experiences I could have had. I closed myself off to a
level where every day was the same, and I didn’t realise that there
was so much more. I know now that if I had gone out into the world
with no fear, ready to face any obstacle that was thrown my way,
things- things could have been very different. And I know that
without that shell, I will feel pain, and sorrow... but it’s not living if
you feel nothing at all. Do you know what I mean? Oh wait, you
wouldn’t, cause you’re death.

(Penultimate scene, with MC and Death)

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