Enconters

singleminded guarda-ness pulls you down. What? No. You know I don't
enjoy this. Right OK. Bye. What? You want me to mind the kids AGAIN?
Oh. Oh alright. And yeah, yeah grand I'll pick David up from rugby later.
Alright. OK bye Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye.
(Hangs up phone, shuffles some papers, takes the pen of her hair and
licks the nib. She then writes something on the page. She picks up the
phone again)
T: alri hiya, you can send him in now hon. Yeah. Yeah. I think this may be
his last. Alright. Bye now. Thanks.
(Door opens at the back of the stage and Sean steps through. Even slower
than last time. He slowly makes his way over to the chair and sits down.
The atmosphere in the room is tense. They both sit awkwardly for a
minute)
T: (slowly) So, last week we finished on the animals. We were talking
about the spiders and such. Would you like to continue on from there?
S: I don't feel like it.
T: Do you want to talk about why not?
S: Not especially.
T: I'm sensing there's something wrong here. I can help if you want me to?
S: What's the point?
T: What's the point in what?
(Sean gets up from his chair and begins walking around the room looking
at the walls and out to the audience)
\-I
....
S: Well. .. Everything!
T: I'm not quite sure I can understand what you mean.
S; Life, its so .. so .. fucking pointless (sean becomes emotional and
collapses into his chair)
T: It's not pointless, it's open and wonderful ands:
-And I killed two people a few weeks ago. What's changed? I still feel
the same. The same anger, the same hurt, the same passion, the same ...