RETRIBUTION II: A Two Act Play
By Arthur Ziffer and Leslie Dann
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The author has already published one book with iUniverse, "Masada Revisited". This is a play about a famous incident in Jewish history which occurred in 73 A.D. at Masada, a place in Israel near the Dead Sea.
Arthur Ziffer
Previous to this publication, the author has eight publications of plays. Two of them are plays about the famous mathematician, Isaac Newton, with titles “On the Shoulders of Giants” and “Isaac and Amanda.” These were co-authored with Herbert Hauptman, the first mathematician to win the Nobel Prize. He won it in 1985 in chemistry (since there is no prize in mathematics) for his work in crystallography. Three of the author’s plays are about Masada, a place in Israel near the Dead Sea with titles Masada Revisited, Masada Revisited II and Masada Revisited III. After the war between the Romans and the Jews in 66-70 AD, the last surviving stronghold of the Jews was the mountaintop fortress at Masada. According to the historian Josephus, the Romans besieged the fortress for three years and when the Jews realized that the fortress would be taken they committed mass suicide. The author has also written two plays about countertransference in psychotherapy with titles “Countertransference,” and “Retribution.”
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RETRIBUTION II - Arthur Ziffer
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Contents
Characters
Act I
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Act II
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Characters
FIRST DETECTIVE
SECOND DETECTIVE
THERAPIST
Girlfriend of Victim
Man/Defendant
PROSECUTOR
Defense Attorney
THERAPIST FOR THE STATE
ACT I
SCENE 1
A t Rise: Girlfriend of a therapist who has been assaulted earlier that evening and the man who assaulted him are talking in girlfriend’s apart ment.
GIRLFRIEND
(Hollering at man.) You assaulted my date. You hit him with a pipe. You assaulted him.
MAN
Please don’t scream at me.
GIRLFRIEND
You followed me home. Why?
MAN
I couldn’t resist.
GIRLFRIEND
Are you going to harm me too? I am the only witness to the assault.
MAN
No.
GIRLFRIEND
God, this is a strange conversation.
MAN
Yes it is.
GIRLFRIEND
I am not afraid of you.
MAN
I am glad, because I have no intention of hurting you.
GIRLFRIEND
So why did you follow me home.
MAN
Because you are such a beautiful woman. Also I was curious why you left after you bent down and touched your date’s neck? Although I guess you were seeing if he was unconscious.
GIRLFRIEND
Yes, once I saw that he was unconscious and I could do nothing for him, I left because I didn’t want to get involved.
MAN
You are involved. Sooner or later the police are going to find out that you were out with him tonight.
GIRLFRIEND
Oh my God!
MAN
You touched his throat to check his pulse. Are you a medical person?
GIRLFRIEND
I am a nurse practitioner.
MAN
Is that like a physician’s assistant?
GIRLFRIEND
Sort of, similar amount of training, but a little different.
MAN
You are so beautiful; I would have thought that you were a dancer.
GIRLFRIEND
I did study ballet from the age of four till I graduated from high school.
MAN
Why did you become a nurse instead of a professional dancer?
GIRLFRIEND
There are too many dancers; it is very competitive. But why are we making small talk? You have just assaulted somebody. You assaulted my date.
MAN
God, I can’t believe I did that.
GIRLFRIEND
You mean you don’t know why you harmed him?
MAN
I don’t know exactly. I saw him leave the theater with you and I lost it. What did you see in him?
GIRLFRIEND
He was tall, good looking, and a doctor.
MAN
Did you know that he thought of himself as the reincarnation of Freud? Like Freud he was a neurologist who became a therapist. Only in his case the word fraud
with an a
not Freud
with an e
should be used.
GIRLFRIEND
Very clever, but how did you know him?
MAN
He was my therapist for several years.
GIRLFRIEND
And?
MAN
He was not very good as a therapist and hurt me very much.
GIRLFRIEND
Does that justify nearly killing him? There are lots of doctors who have patients who feel that their doctors were no good. That’s why doctors have malpractice insurance.
MAN
But this was much worse than malpractice.
GIRLFRIEND
How much worse could it have been?
MAN
He made it impossible for me to get or have a woman.
GIRLFRIEND
You mean he castrated you.
MAN
In a sense!
GIRLFRIEND
What do you mean? He certainly didn’t cut off your genitals.
MAN
Not physically, but emotionally.
GIRLFRIEND
Can you explain that?
MAN
According to another therapist