VOICES AND VISIONS a five act play by - creativepsychotherapy.info

it says. Sometimes it’s really stupid and annoys me. Do this, do that, stop, go here, go
there, so I can’t concentrate.
Tony: Who has the power: puppet or puppeteer? Who’s controlling whom?
Jo: Sometimes my voices are in control, sometimes I have control. I can’t control the
voices.
Sam: This is me when I was a child: she looks sad. She’s just a puppet: other people
control her. Sometimes she controls me. I try to ignore her. Sometimes I hate her, then
she hates me and makes things really difficult. Then she takes control so I can’t do
anything. Sometimes I like to be her: a little girl. If someone wants sex with me I just
become a little girl, a rag doll, and do what they want to please them.
Voice 4 (male): Bend over, relax.
Voice 6 (female): Do as your father says.
Voice 5: You dirty little girl.
Jude (who has not heard these voices): What do you want to say to yourself as a little
girl?
Sam: (throwing down the puppet) This is a load of shit. (She walks out; Jude is shocked.
She and Tony exchange glances. Tony gestures... there is an awkward silence.)
Jo: Should I go and...
Tony: What do other people think?
Ray: She jus’ escape: freedom road out into the wilderness: let her be.
Tony: What do you think Terry?
Terry: My puppet is me: you want me to talk to myself?
Jude: Yes, if you want. He’s a good person to talk to. What good thing can you say to
yourself? Be a friend to yourself.
Terry: You may be cracked but you’re OK (They laugh with him.) When you write your
poems you feel better, so write a poem a day: keep the doctor away. The voices try to
stop you: write down what they say: maybe it could be a play.
Tony: Yes, maybe Terry could write a play for the group.
Terry: Be a load of rubbish.
Ray: Hey, don’t put yourself down man: it’s bad for your spirit. Speak positive to
yourself.
Jo: (as puppet) I’m a dummy. What I say is rubbish. I criticise Jo all the time. (coming
out of role) I feel like hitting it.
Jude: That’s OK (Jo hits the puppet and throws it across the room.) Fine, good. Do you
want to do that again?
Jo: No.
Ray: People think I am violent but it’s the voices: they give me mental GBH.
Terry: I’d like to bash the ray gunners: stop them giving me earache.
Jude: Well you can bash things in this group: like this cushion or the drum.
Terry: The ray gunners should be punished!
Jude: How about you use the drum as their ear drum and give that a bashing?
Terry: (laughs) Huh! Yeah! (He bashes the drum) Ray gunners is going to die!
(Ray walks over to the audience chairs.)
Ray: This guy’s talking crap.
Terry: Dogcrap.
Jude: You sound upset Ray, angry.
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