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    Come On, Death, Let's Hug!: A Play
    Come On, Death, Let's Hug!: A Play
    Come On, Death, Let's Hug!: A Play
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    Come On, Death, Let's Hug!: A Play

    By Kenechukwu Obi

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    Life suddenly turns sour for Gary, a British man, on losing his job, his marriage to Dolly, not having the best of times too. Gary opts to leave London for a trip to Kenya in Africa, to relax and stay away from all pressures at home. But it is in Kenya that he meets an African teenage girl whose grim circumstance paves the way for him to plunge into an act he never before taught he could perform, an act that sinks him deep in fame and fortune, and in misery as well..... And does Gary have the guts to take his own life?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKenWrites
    Release dateApr 21, 2022
    ISBN9791221324723
    Come On, Death, Let's Hug!: A Play

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      Book preview

      Come On, Death, Let's Hug! - Kenechukwu Obi

      COME ON, DEATH, LET’S HUG!

      A Play

      BY

      KENECHUKWU OBI

      CAST

      GARY

      DOLLY

      NALIAKA

      WANGARI

      WANGARI’S MOTHER

      MOI

      ERENG

      MIMANO

      SIMON

      All is quiet, the audience seated, attentive, and focused on the dark stage, which soon gets lit. SCENE ONE. All that is revealed is a room, spacious, contains a bed with two pillows, beside which are a table and a chair. On the table is a Lap-Top computer, a pen, and a notebook. And the floor is littered with paper, all torn and squeezed into ball-shapes. The room has an atmosphere of frustration hanging over it. Then a dancing Gary enters, dancing and singing on top of his voice, the Michael Jackson ‘moon walk’ style.

      GARY

      [Intensifies his dancing and singing, looking all vivacious] Yeah….. I feel…..so good…… One! Two! Three! Four! Five! One time! I feel…. so good….good… yeah…. One time! One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Yeah……… Come on! Come on! Come on! One time! One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Yeah…… Yeah……. Yeah……. [Gary soon stops, looks around and laughs] My name is Gary, which I can’t deny of course, but add Speed to that, and then I will be forced to acknowledge that first of all, I’ve never been a footballer, let alone play for New Castle United and Bolton Wanderers here in England. I’m not a Welsh man either, neither am I about to manage the Welsh national football team and take my life. Not yet. What’s my problem? First of all, I like to think of myself as a writer now…. And secondly, I have sunk deep into a world in which I deceive myself, after deceiving everybody.

      [Gently goes to the chair, sits down, picks up the pen on the table, opens the notebook, gets composed and begins to scribble on the notebook. Frustrated, he soon stops, and moved by anger, he rips off papers from the notebook, screws them up and forcefully throws them on the floor]

      [Now furious, springs up, shakes his head in a violent manner and screams] Can someone give me one good reason why I should not take my life now….?

      [Dolly, Gary’s wife enters with a saucer on top of which is a cup]

      DOLLY

      Honestly, Gary, I think our whole neighborhood will be a much better place if you can learn to keep your voice down. It’s just 7AM. I don’t think you realize that. [Now throwing glances around]

      GARY

      And who cares even one bit?

      DOLLY

      [Keeps saucer and cup on top of the table] That’s naughty. Here’s your coffee, Gary. I’m off to work. [Turns to leave] What a mess you’ve turned your room into.

      GARY

      It’s nobody’s business but mine.  [Dolly walks away without uttering any further word]

      GARY

      [Moved by anger again, he runs after Dolly with malicious intent, but suddenly stops, begins to saunter, still furious] I felt like hitting her head on a wall. [Suddenly holds his heads. Screams] No….. Agents of murder! I disobey….. My wife’s blood will not be on my hands…..

      [Gary hurries to the chair, sits down quickly, picks up the pen and attempts to write. Not making any headway again, anger suddenly drives him to toss his pen away. Then he does the same to the notebook.]

      [Screams] I cannot create a single scene! Let alone believable characters! And the day to deliver a screenplay to my agent is fast approaching! Oh…..who can tell me why I shouldn’t end this miserable thing called my life right now….?

      [Gary gets up and begins to walk away as a narrative voice comes alive]

      NARRATIVE VOICE

      Dolly was a woman whose utterances helped land Gary into big trouble.

      If there was anything Gary would forget in his life, it would never be the day he met Dolly at the Soho theatre, in London. He believed he inherited his love for the theatre from his parents who were both stage actors; though his Dad later veered to

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