The Wall

by Sullyhogs1

A script for a stage adaptation of Pink Floyd's album/rock opera I'm writing. The story is about a burnt-out rock star who builds an emotional and psychological wall between himself and society based off of the traumatic experiences in his past. I own some character names, some new dialogue, and the staging. The rest goes to Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters. Read & review, please!

28. Stop!

Act II – Scene 11

Stop!

Setting – Concert backstage, New York, 1968.

(Silence. The curtains open to PINK sitting against the wall with a lone spotlight on him. He is looking down at a small black book. He begins to sing poems out of it.)

PINK (quietly, with no music in the background):

The lunatic is in the hall,

The lunatic is in my hall,

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor,

And every day the paper boy brings more,
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon,
And if there is no room upon the hill,
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too,
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon…

(PINK turns the page.)

Stop…

(A piano begins to play.)

I wanna go home,

Take off this uniform and leave the show,

And I'm waiting in this cell, because I have to know,

Have I been guilty all this time?

(The music transitions into the next song as PINK exits and more lights come on.)