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There are good plays and there are great plays... The Gates of Hell, created by Taniform Martin Wanki questions mans greed, religion, fanaticism, riches, law, hierarchy and intellect when faced with the ultimate questions after death along with the contributions in which they have made.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	27 avril 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781908354075
Langue	English

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WITHIN THE
WALLS OF HELL

Taniform Martin Wanki
Publisher Information
Within the Walls of Hell published in 2011 by
GA&P ePublishing
www.GapPublishing.co.uk
Digital Edition Converted and Distributed by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
The characters and situations in this book are entirely imaginary and bear no relation to any real person or actual happening.
Copyright © Taniform Martin Wanki
The right of Taniform Martin Wanki to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Characters in the play

MESSENGER………………………………………
SANDI……………………………………Religious fanatic
STONE……………………………………Rich business farmer
WILLIAM…………………………………Master of the law
VLADIMIR………………………………..Uniform officer
CARLOS………………………………….President
CAIN………………………………………Medical practitioner
COMMON MAN……………………………

Act 1

This scene opens with Sandi outside the tall Iron Gate. It opens and he walks in after the Messenger.

Messenger : ( Leads him to his room )
Sandi : ( Follows the Messenger and enters the room shown him. The floor is bear with only a torn mat. There is a lot of heat and he feels thirsty. Goes to the tap at one corner of the room and turns it. It makes a noise but does not cough out water ). What is wrong with the tap? It’s not flowing and I’m really thirsty.
Messenger : I noticed.
Sandi : So? Aren’t you going to get me some water instead of standing there doing nothing? Is this how you treat your guests here?
Messenger : Did I hear you say ‘guest’? As far as I know, you never received any invitation from anybody, did you?
Sandi : There I think you are right. I never received any invitation. In that case, I don’t know what I’m doing here. So, I will just walk out that gate just the same way I walked in.
Messenger : ( smiles) you are free to go. No one is stopping you.
Sandi: ( leaves messenger in the room and heads towards the gate. Gets to the gate. Tries to push it open but it doesn’t. Tries again with all his strength but it still does not open. Walks back to the room where he left the messenger ). The gate wouldn’t open.
Messenger : I know that.
Sandi: ( surprise ) why don’t you go and open it?
Messenger : I didn’t lock it up. You entered after me and the gate closed up on its own, right?
Sandi : ( In exasperation ) so, who is supposed to open the damn gate?
Messenger : ( very calmly ) the gate can only open to let someone in. It cannot open to let anyone out. Once you get in here, you can never get out again.
Sandi: And what about you? I met you outside the gate before we walked in here together. Does it mean you have never been in here before?
Messenger : I have but I am different. I can walk in and out because I’m a Messenger. My job is to clarify your doubts in case you feel that your presence in here is unjustified. Are you still thirsty?
Sandi : What a question! The heat is suffocating and I badly need water.
Messenger : You did not send us anything to prepare clean potable water for you here while you were down there. What you sowed down there is what you will reap here.
Sandi : ( looking so confused ) what do you mean?
Messenger : What I mean is that the kind of life you live in the world below your feet determines where you go thereafter. Did you live a good life while you were down there?
Sandi : I lived a good life.
Messenger : What makes you say that?
Sandi : I prayed many times a day and went to the house of prayer on week days and weekends too. I also did entirely what my spiritual leader told me to do.
Messenger: Saying your prayers regularly and going to the house of prayer was good. But I’m interested in what your spiritual leader told you to do. What did he tell you to do from the moment he became your spiritual leader?
Sandi : My spiritual leader told me that if I wanted to go to that place where all human beings dream of after death, I must die fighting for my religion or for a good course. He also added that dieing for my religion will earn me the crown of a martyr in addition to eternal life. I was promised many virgins in the life beyond.
Messenger : Did you believe that every thing your spiritual leader asked you to do was right?
Sandi : ( without hesitating ). Yes I believed in everything he asked me to do. He told me and many others that our gaining eternal life depended on how we carried out his instructions to the latter.
Messenger : What did he ask you to do in order to be crowned a martyr and also gain eternal life?
Sandi ( Very enthusiastic ) First of all, he told us that we had to be the soldiers of our Creator by winning souls for our religion. He also added that anyone who refused to accept our religion was an infidel and instructed us in such a situation to give him or her a deadline to convert or face the consequences.
Messenger : That is interesting. But there is one word you used whose meaning I do not quite master. The word is ‘Infidel’. Can you find a synonym which can make me understand?
Sandi : ( remains silent for a while searching through his brain to find an answer ) Yes, I think I’ve got it. A synonym could be ‘Unfaithful’.
Messenger: That is wonderful. Now tell me, were those you call infidels unfaithful to you, your spiritual leader, Creator, or your religion?
Sandi: They were, to my religion and spiritual leader who was charged with leading everyone to the Creator.
Messenger : ( Smiles ) That was a very technical answer. But let me explain something to you. When you were down there and even right now there is still a saying that many roads lead to Rome, right?
Sandi : Right.
Messenger : In the same vein, many roads lead to our Creator. The road that leads to our Creator is called religion. But you are not supposed to concentrate on the road and forget your destination. You concentrated too much on the road which was your religion and forgot the destination which was our Creator. If you had taken up your head once in a while to look at your destination, perhaps you might have realized that the paths others took linked up with yours somewhere. However, if religions are the roads, it does not mean that all of the roads lead to our Creator. Take yours for example, did anybody who belonged to your religion visit the grave and returned to tell you that it led to our Creator?
Sandi : No.
Messenger : In that case, you had no right to impose your religion or way of life on others who did not want to accept it; let alone calling them odd names. Once you cross that bar which marks the boundary between this world and the one you’ve just come from, you account for your deeds alone. No one becomes your mouth-piece. That means that salvation is personal. If you forced someone to do something right and the act was not coming from the heart of that person, then it was useless. My master is interested in what comes from the heart. No one is supposed to force another to get into the Land of Eternal Happiness or Paradise if you want. No one earns a place there through the use of force. Everyone must merit his or her place there and that merit comes only through love, peace sacrifice and service to humanity as well as tolerance while you are in that world down there. All that must come only from the heart and motivated by the freewill of the individual. Tell me something; what did you do to the ‘infidels’ who at the end of your deadline still refused to accept your religion?
Sandi : We either chopped off their fingers or hands or legs or gave them another deadline. If they never complied, we then killed them. That was called cleaning up our creator’s kingdom in preparation for a pure faithful generation of servants.
Messenger : Something still bothers me about those people you had to force to accept your religion and those you had to kill because they refused your religion. Didn’t they have a religion of their own?
Sandi : They had.
Messenger : Then why did you think that yours was more important or the only true one that led to our creator and not theirs?
Sandi : My Spiritual leader said that the only true religion was the one he belonged to and acted as its spiritual leader. He had a dream and it was to get everybody on the surface of the earth belong to our religion either by peaceful means or through the use of force. Besides, there were those who did not have any religion and were pure pagans. What was wrong with bringing them into the light and giving them hope for salvation?
Messenger : There was nothing wrong with bringing people from darkness into light. There was something wrong in the way you went about it. As I said before, they had to move from darkness into light out of their freewill and not through the use of force because my master is interested only in what comes from the heart and done out of freewill. You had no right to impose your religion on others. ( Pauses for a while ) So, to get people join your religion, you instituted an atmosphere of fear by burning down houses of prayer which belonged to those you considered enemies or pagans. You used explosives in most of the destruction and many people were killed. Was all that really necessary? Must you use force in your desire to save somebody. Must you burn down the houses of prayer of those you considered pag