the treatment 1

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The Treatment

Act 1

A ridiculously tower of a man suited in black, black glasses and blackearpiece wraps his masculine arms around a petite but curvaceous

woman who is in turn smiling gleefully towards the photographer. An oldman looks at the picture frame longingly closing his eyes and opens themto the cold with an undertone of death looming in the air. The bodyguardoverweight and wrinkled, now wearing a blue coverall with his massivelegs gaping out as he stares at the environment around him. Inside hisward young nurses dressed as if they were clones walk up and down theward with their hips swaying from side, taking tiny steps a time as theywalk. Crippled people walk around mindlessly, whilst the weak remain intheir beds watching time pass them by helplessly.

The cardiac ward is run by a sadistic Head Nurse, who ironically dislikesold people. Their dependency and clingy behaviour makes her feeldisgusted yet powerful at the same time. She strolls passed the beds of the sickly people like their superior, tucking them into bed when theywant to stay awake, Making them eat when they are not hungry. Hersense in control and rationale thinking derives from routine andconsequences. That is what makes her feel strong, and maintain the weakto stay weak. The Bodyguard is to miserable and in self pity to truly careabout the condition of the ward. He doesn’t believe that he should behere. He has lost his way in this world.

Whilst walking back to his bed supported he notices a tall thinning man.Wearing what he considered absurd outfit, a bright red bow tie, a redstained shirt, along with a dusty brown bowler’s hat, this strange manwalks past him and they exchange glares. The man takes a bite out of hislong florescent carrot as the Bodyguard towers over looking downattempting to intimidate and demean him as he floats cheerily by. Thebodyguard shakes his head in repulsion as he instantly takes a disliking tothe man. Later that night the mysterious man tip toes out of his bedinside his ward and transforms his attire with a whisky spin into a black

tight fitting outfit. He puts out a rusty overly used paintbrush and kisses itgently with love.

Act 2

The bodyguard awakes to a loud scream outside the ward. He quicklyclambers out of bed and staggers towards the sound of the scream to finda large group of people, staff and patients alike crowding round a wall.Bizarre to the bodyguard his pushes through the herd of people with littleregard of human decency to find the wall covered in a splashes of colours,ranging for blues to oranges. The words Freedom drips in black paintspanning across the wall. One nurse faints at the site of the imagery,



another patient calls over the herd of onlookers as he spots anotherpainting of on another wall, and another one opposite.

The head nurse the head nurse of the ward is outraged yet amazed thatsomeone was able to get away with painting such a travesty. She turnsaway in disbelief then catches a glance of the bodyguard, staring at thewalls, as if he was in a trance. She walks over and proposes that if thishappens again, this could be the bodyguard’s chance to relive his passionand once again add meaning to his life. To protect the walls of thehospital, they should be painted white only, to remain order andsensibility.

The bodyguard walks back to his bed deep in thought. He looks at hispicture frame with awe. Opening the draw of the table he picks up blackray-bans glasses, and blows the dust off. Kisses them with love and flicksthem over his face.

He is now standing in front of the walls with his hands over his crouch,ready to react to anything and suspecting everyone. Watching thepatients stumble pass him he notices an elderly woman about rest herhand on the wall to tie her shoes. He quickly glides over gesturing for herto move away from the wall. Meanwhile the Artist gracefully descendsdown the ceiling with rope tied to his ankle. In a an elegant upside down

ballet pose he quickly and effortlessly waves his paintbrush flickeringrainbow of colours on to the wall. As the bodyguard shoo’s off the womanhe returns back to his post, first glimpses the Artist disappearing into thevent of the ceiling and than seeing the half painted wall. He jumps aroundin frustration. Now patrolling up and down the on only wall in the hospitalthat has not been painted. Ever vigilant and ready he beings twitches inreadiness at the slightest of sounds.

Act 3

The Artist appears to him standing opposite to the guard in a stand off. Hepulls out his trusty Paintbrush, whilst the guard whips on his shades. The

guard is running over to the Artist, who slyly stretches out his foot leadingthe guard to take a huge tumble, making the floor vibrant like anearthquake. The artist quickly dashes towards the wall and throws abucket of red paint onto it, the guard seeing this jumps back up and runsin slow motion towards the walls jumping in front of the paint thencrashing down to the floor once again. The artist jumps around in victory,as the guard grasps a hold his ankles, pulls him down to the floor and theysquabble and fight.

The head Nurse hears what is happening then demands the Bodyguard tobring him to the office where he will be formally punished for hismisdeeds.



The patients come outside their ward hearing the commotion as to thesurprise of the Head Nurse, Artist and Bodyguard surprise they are in gleeand joy. They are thankful of transforming their dull lifeless environmentinto something to be proud to live in. The artist picks himself up looks

down at the bodyguard smugly. The bodyguard being to once again feelinadequate stumbles back up and tries to fade away from the scene. The head nurse is red with anger and attempts to remove the artist fromthe scene herself. The bodyguard now sees the big picture. He stands infront of the Artist, beckoning to her she is going to have to go through himto get to the Artist. The Artist looks at him with sincerity and gratefulness. The Patients clap out loud, while the Head Nurse looks at everyonedumbfound, now stricken away with her authority over the ward.

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