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The Psychiatrist's Office Of The Mind's Eye
What this set represents is the inner monologue we all have with ourselves as we try to make sense of all the shit that happens to us. In this scene my character is having a therapy session with their inner psychiatrist.
THE PSYCHIATRIST’S OFFICE OF THE MIND’S EYE
by JENNY KIRBY
Scene 1
INT: Psychiatrist’s Office
The office space is surreal like something in
a dream and somewhat reminiscent of a Salvador Dali painting. The room appears
to be floating in the sky, just above the clouds. The floor is black and white
marble laid in a chess board pattern. The bottom 3 feet of the walls are
covered in a solid wood paneling framed in by a 4” baseboard and matching chair
rail. Above the chair rail the walls disappear entirely opening out to the blue
sky scattered with billowy cumulous clouds slowly floating by. Paintings with
ornate gold frames appear to be floating in mid-air around the room. A series
of framed ink blot tests float next to a red contemporary chair positioned
adjacent to a black chaise lounge.
The psychiatrist is seated in the red
chair. He’s a tall, slim, dignified looking man around 40. He’s dressed in a
mostly black neo Victorian ensemble. His black tousled hair is chin length and
frames his face softening his angled features. A pair of slightly tinted round
spectacles rest in the lower part of his nose revealing his piercing crystal
blue eyes lined with smoky charcoal eyeliner.
Seated across from him is the patient. She
is a porcelain skinned young woman with white and purple hair immaculately
coifed into 2 horns elaborately decorated with ribbons, feathers and jewels.
Her green eyes are rimmed with dramatic long eyelashes and black eyeliner that
gradually fades into red complementing her deep scarlet lips. She is wearing a
shiny black latex and pvc ballgown with a tightly corseted bodice held together
with chunky chrome clasps.
The psychiatrist begins their session by
showing the patient as series of ink blot images that appear to be morphing and
distorting in front of the patient’s eyes. He presents her the first image.
PSYCHIATRIST
“Tell me what you see”
PATIENT
“A bride and groom”
The image begins to distort after she gives
her answer.
PATIENT
“Wait! It’s a fist.”
The image continues to distort.
PATIENT
“No! It’s rape.”
The psychiatrist then directs the patient
over to an easel with a blank canvas and directs her to start painting. She
picks up the largest brush she can and loads it with black and red paint. She
slaps the paint on to the canvas and violently spreads the paint around mixing
the colors together with her brush strokes.
The patient focuses intently on the task at
hand and continues to paint in a frenzy of creative madness. She steps back
from the canvas indicating to the psychiatrist that she is finished. He
approaches the canvas and stares at the painting. A mutilated woman with all
four limbs hacked off is strapped to an operating table. Her mouth is pried
open and she is being force fed through a large tube that leads to a vodka
bottle suspended from an IV stand. She has been surgically altered and fitted
with four tubes that attach to the ends of the stumps that used to be her arms
and legs. The tubes lead to a tank where another human is being grown inside.
The
psychiatrist questions his patient as to the significance of the imagery. The
patient explains that it’s a visual metaphor for how she used substance abuse
to cope with domestic violence, and through the use of various substances
created an alter ego. Her alter ego is The Hedonist, a woman who escapes her
pain by stimulating the pleasure center of the brain. However through her
hedonism, she became an addict. Her demons of addiction held her down and
trapped her into a vicious cycle that seemingly had no escape, until she
realized that to escape the control of her abuser she had to first stop abusing
herself.
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