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The Therapist

Ashutosh Sharma
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CHARACTERS

Tailor brown - A Therapist - Aged 32 - Calm with her patients but suffers from massive
anxiety - Female

- Anna - Unknown - Aged 32 - Flamboyant, loud and annoying - Non-Binary
- Mike - Tailor’s Husband - Aged 35 - Calm, patient and loving - Male

- Jess - Tailor’s Patient - Aged 21 - Suffers from anxiety and depression – Male

SCENE ONE
DR. TAILOR BROWN’S office.

Two large chairs directly across from each other. A coffee table with a tissue box sits between
the two. Behind the coffee table is a larger table with a coffee pot, disposable cups and a

scented candle. Tailor sits across from her patient, Jess. She holds a notebook and a pen. Jess
has a cup of coffee in her hand.

Tailor: So, is there anything else you wanted to talk about before our session ends?

Jess: Yeah. There was another incident....
Tailor: Oh? Please go on.

(Tailor clicks open the pen. She gets ready to take notes.)

Jess: I was going to see a movie last weekend.
Tailor: The Spider- Man one?

Jess: Right. I went to see it and I bought my ticket and everything. I was feeling like having
popcorn, so I got in line to get some. And that’s when I saw... him.

(Jess tenses up. Tailor takes note of this.)
Tailor: Your ex?

Jess: Yeah, Tom. We made eye contact. The second I saw him, I felt like I couldn’t breathe.

Everything he ever said to me came rushing back. I wanted to scream at him and run away at
the same time.

Tailor: And what did you do?
(A pause)

Jess: I ran away.
Tailor: After paying for your ticket?

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