Title: Trapped.
by Jennie from London | in writing, fiction
(Lights dimmed, female voice fills the stage, slightly timid but loud.)
Helena: It weren't my fault, you know. Only it feels like it sometimes'
(Light fills the stage, showing a teenage girl looking sitting hunched up by a window that shows a group of other teenagers who are frozen in their actions.)
Helena: 'When I watch them, it's like I am an outsider'an onlooker of this world. Their world. But that's what I am, right? You can't join in when you're me.
(The teenagers start moving again. A group of boys are playing football and throwing insults at each other and a group of girls are laughing raucously.)
Helena (scared, glancing out the window.): Not when you cannot step outside, not when you're incarcerated in this paranoid mind; heart forever thumping whenever a shadow creeps up on you '
(Suddenly, one of the lads kicks the football with an almighty force and it shatters through Helena's window. She screams and the teenagers stop and stare, peering.)
Helena (whispers, tears coursing down her cheeks.) Please don't look at me. Please. Please, go away'
(Light's fade.)
Helena who is 15 years old has had problems with going out due to being followed home one night. She then gets diagnosed with agoraphobia and the play shows her struggling. The beginning shows her in the middle of the struggle, at her worst. I got the idea from my own struggles with the illness and now that I am recovering, I would like to show how hard it is for a teenager to be scared to go out. Thanks
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