Your Results May Vary: Act 1

The story begins.

A distance battlefield.

A recent defeat.

And a woman who needs an answer to the question “How close I have been to death?”

The Psych – Scene 3

Professionals need professional help.

Dr. May visits his colleague Dr. X-Tra over his psycholinguistic crisis that is driven by one, very specific word.

Dr. X-Tra, in his turn, has many ways of thinking about this issue.

A third scene from the practice of a San Franciscan Black Psychiatrist.

Warning: This episode contains language that some may find offensive.

Produced by San Francisco Recovery Theatre and HWMS Audio Theatre

 

The Junction

One a scale form 1 to 7, how is close is close?

This is warfare.  Mostly death is far, far away.  A score of 7 on a Likert Scale.  But there are moment, moments when it is much more intimate.

This is warfare.

Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of shear terror.

That is warfare.

Alec Effson volunteers for logistics duty and receives the delivery of something that was not  expected.

A scene from “Your Results May Vary.”

Don’t Go Down

“To everything there is a season.”

So we’ve been told.

A time to sit.  A time to stand.  A time to stay in camp.  A time to go down to the end of the town,  And, of course, a time to come back

A military camp is a novelty to Alec Effson.  It holds stories that she does not yet know and yearns to understand,  Tonight, she is looking for her friend, Captain Pritel, and agrees to stand guard while the captain is sought.

Guard.  What is she guarding.  A scene from “Your Results May Vary.”

Kindly Wishes to Inform

The Records Clerk of Death.

Such people exist you know.

And they are not to be taken lightly.

When they come for a visit, they need to be treated well

Monologue from the upcoming production by HWMS Audio Theatre: “Your Results May Vary.”

Closest I Came

How do you measure the distance to death?

How close is close?

How can you possibly make a clear decision when the dark cloud passes by your door?

And how you possibly study it when its effects swirl about you?

Monologue from the upcoming production by HWMS Audio Theatre: “Your Results May Vary.”

 

The Psych – Scene 2

For any mental heal professional, one patient follows another.

When the walls are thin enough, (as they often were for Black doctors in the 1960s, one patient can hear the session can hear the prior session.

So now our psych faces a patient who objects to the advice given in the an earlier patient. He has “do no harm,” try to provide a little help to a patient in need, and make sense of his own thoughts at this time.

A second scene from the practice of a San Franciscan Black Psychiatrist.

 

The Psych – Scene 1

San Francisco

Once the Harlem of the West.

Once a city with a vibrant and exciting Black culture.

It then faces the Civil Rights movement.

The Black Power Movement.

And a pair of Black Psychiatrists trying to make sense of of this thing called racism