Money Madness - A Play in Three Acts

MONEY MADNESS

[The Names of all characters do not refer to actual persons in life.]

Dramatis Personae

KUNDAN DASS, a Hakim

SHANTI, his wife.

SHAM LAL, a worker of Dev Samaj.

RAMESH, a clever person and a blackmailer

RAJ; YASH; AND BABU; friends of Ramesh.

JANKI, a widow.

SHEELA, another widow

KAMLA, a school mistress.

AMARNATH ; BAXISH SINGH; AND REHMAN KHAN, chance visitors to 'satsang'.

A BEARER

ACT I

SCENE-I

In a dimly lighted and poorly furnished room, Shanti is asleep an armchair. There is no sound except the ticking of a clock.
The clock strikes tweleve. Shanti jumps from her chair with a striek. She begins to walk up and down the room, trembling from top to toe. After a minute or two there is a knock at the door.

SHANTI; Who is it?

kUNDAN DASS. It is I. [Shanti opens the door]

SHANTI. I hope you are all right.

KUDAN DASS. of course! What could happen to me? [Looking 'intently on Shanti] But you are all trembling. You are not ill. Are yOU ?

SHANTI. No. But I dreamt such a terrible thing-the same terrible thing that happened to you seven years back.
KUNDAN DASS. Nonsense!

From
Money Madness by S.P. Kanal in 1989