Libertango

Libertango:
A One Act Scene:

1926 Paris France,  We see a young girl awaking from a drowsy state of consciousness on a chaise lounge in her flat, as she draws back the drapes in the window it is a foggy twilight. A tall dark vague looking man crosses the street and disappears into the fog.

She dresses and steps out for the train to carry her to a night club where she performs. After a brief napping she continues to doze in and out while she travels, she then yawns and looks up from her car seat and glances at a tall stately man reading a news paper and pulling on a pipe, the tall dark stranger is somehow familiar to her. Was he the man in her afternoon nap, just a total stranger or perhaps a fling from another night gone by?

Before she reaches her stop she glances at him several times but sharply pulls away at his any movement. As she rises to step off the train at her stop she glances once more only to witness the man has vanished,

Walking to the bar where she works she turns a corner and there he his, they do not speak but he smiles while she drops her head and picks up the pace to get to work. She briskly runs along the boulevard until she is safe inside.

Immediately her boss snaps her into reality and she is now onstage performing, drinking and laughing and passing herself about the bar. In a turn she catches a glance of the man from the train again yet he disperses again into the crowd. Then all at once she turns and there he is, he grabs her and they dance.

The dance leads to her dressing room door and as they arrive and she is face to face with the man again she is overwhelmed with a terrorizing familiarity. He extends his hand and tells her that she had carelessly left something on the train earlier, he then enters the dressing room with her. She says “Have we met somewhere before?” to which he responds. “ I only wanted to return something to you which is rightfully yours.”  

Then from his pocket he pulls out a pair of stockings. As he is pulling out the stockings to her shock she sees the stockings are indeed hers, except they are the stockings she had thrown away many months ago.

At that point she is paralyzed with fear convinced that he has been stalking her, he approaches her and says “please allow me to extend my appreciation.”  He caresses her face and wraps the stockings around her throat and strangles her to the floor.

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