prot Monologue - K-PAX / Geneva Underground Playhouse / Summer 2010

A short selection from K-PAX by the Geneva Underground Playhouse based on the novel by Gene Brewer

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There's a new patient on Ward 2 and Dr. Brewer isn't sure just what to make of him. prot (intentionally lower-case to show just how insignificant a single being is in the universe) claims to be from the planet K-PAX in the constellation Lyra. We're never told exactly how he ended up in a mental hospital, but the changes he makes happen while he is there are nothing short of remarkable. Is he really an alien? Or does he have multiple personality disorder, as Dr. Brewer suspects? We're never really quite sure, but what we do know is that prot has helped to change the lives of people around him. And because of that, we like him.

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Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

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K-PAX is a 2001 American science fiction film directed by Iain Softley and starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack and Alfre Woodard. The screenplay, written by Gene Brewer and Charles Leavitt, is based on a novel of the same name by Brewer about a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. During his treatment, the patient demonstrates an outlook on life that ultimately proves inspirational for his fellow patients and especially for his psychiatrist.

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[SuperRocky74]

I wish I could see this play here in Dublin.

[scott630]

Aw yeah this dude is awesome!!!