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The Immigrant
A surreal story

Altenir Silva

Story Line: A man is looking for a country.

 

SCENE ONE

A Citizenship and Immigration Services office. A man is seated in front of an Immigration Officer.

 

OFFICER:

So, why did you leave your country?

 

MAN:

Because I wanna live in a democracy.

 

OFFICER:

But I consider your country as the most democratic place to make a life.

 

MAN:

I don't know. Maybe. But I'm here because of that.

 

OFFICER:

What? I didn't get that. Please explain it to me?

 

MAN:

I would like to be myself.

 

OFFICER:

What does that mean?

 

MAN:

I'm a happy man. I would like to be sad.

 

OFFICER:

Are you out of your mind? Be unhappy?

 

MAN:

Yeah! Exactly! It's my dream! I want to be a sad man.

 

OFFICER:

Then you came to the right place. Here you will be very sad.

 

MAN:

Great! I wanna this for my life. Can I stay here?

 

OFFICER:

Of course not.

 

(The officer stamps a paper.)

 

OFFICER:

Refused!

 

MAN:

I'm so sad again.

 

OFFICER

I don't care.

 

(Man jumps with his arms raised like he was celebrating a home run from his team.)

 

MAN

I'm a sad man! A sad man! Thanks!

 

Blackout.

 

OFFICER

(Voice Over.)

Next!

 

END

 

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Altenir Silva is a Brazilian playwright and screenwriter. In 2019, he won the Best Feature Screenplay at Prisma International Film Awards in Rome with The Sunrise Man (co-written with Ben Fiore, based on a story by director Werner Schumann). This screenplay was also nominated as a Top Finalist, 2017, Hollywood Hills Screenplay Awards, CA, US. In 2017 his short-play "Friendship" was published in "One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre" (Routledge UK). In 2014 he received the Award of Excellence from Shakespeare at The Burg Theatre Festival (Middleburg, VA) for the play "The Idea". In Brazil, he worked as a scriptwriter for several TV shows at Globo TV, Record TV, CNT TV. He also wrote the feature films "Belarmino & Gabriela" (2007), "The Salt of the Earth" (2008), "Japan Connection" (2008), "Curitiba Zero Degrees" (2010) and "Moses and The Ten Commandments" (2015). For more of his writings in Scene4, check the Archives.

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