人们时常会迷失方向，谁也不知道迷失方向后会发生什么，唯有继续前行在自己的道路上。尽管周围的景物和人已经变化，我们能做的唯有继续前行。终点也是一个新的起点。本剧讲述的是一个迷失了方向的人徘徊在一个陌生的城市，第七天了，他能否找到自己的方向呢?

Aside:People often lose their directions when on the way. We have no idea what may happen in the future. Only we go ahead on our own ways. Despite the change of views and people around us, we can do nothing but go ahead. End is also a new start. A new future there will always be.

Memory, or love; and pain, or pleasure has possibly been come through. But all these for brilliant beauty-the dancers in flame, the moths under lamplights, the shooting stars in the dark night-sky, the eyelashes wet with dew, seem to blossom, to burst, to finish and to die in this short time.

What has been in our possession? What shall we lose?

Pray continue your advance, dear brothers; pray do it, dear sisters. I am from where you come. So am I where you're going.

We are walking on the way. We just need a future.

Scene:The stage on which a man lit up a cigarette with the lighter is entirely black.It is accompanied by beautiful background music.

MAN

(mazedly) What am I doing here? Six days have passed. The seventh day will come just through the moment of zero, but what am I doing here? (music stops,drops the cigarette, people walking up and down upstage)

MAN

This is a strange place. I have been here for fully six days. Why have I been here so long, where, without the taste of friendliness, the chilly wind blows and the stars dazzle? Do you know why? Tell me! (to the audience) Do you know why? Tell me! (to the passers-by) Why do you not speak? (rushes into the crowd) You must speak to me! You're walking, you're breathing, you're loving. You must speak to me. (the passers-by make their way around him with a sidelong glance at him)

MAN

(walks out of the crowd downstage) Never bother them while people are walking. Never bother them while people are breathing. The living are strange to me. I am isolated from this strange place and the people in a hurry. But what am I doing here? And for six days! Should I go or stay? Should I seek on or give up? Should I love or hate? Shall I speak to people? (the stage is black, exit the passers-by, enter the pair of lovers, the lights shine on the stage, the man is to either side)

PIAO

(terrifiedly) Xiao Luo, listen to me. I didn't really mean it. The letter had been torn up open before I got it!

LUO

(coldly) Then why did you not ask me?! Today you met my parents for the first time. What a thing you've said. What will become of us since!

PIAO

(worryingly) I didn't mean it, I have to say. How come I knew about your sister but for one missing page of the letter!

LUO

You're right. One page was missing. But it was neither the first nor the last. Didn't you find it when you read it?! Sow!

PIAO

(angrily) You... ...

MAN

(abruptly interrupts them) What are you doing here?

LUO

(surprisedly) What?

PIAO

Who are you? (walks beside Luo to protect him)

MAN

What are you doing here, I said?

PIAO

This is the avenue, not your home. Why do you care what we are doing here?

LUO

(to Piao) What are you doing?

MAN

Ah! Do you also lose yourselves? Do you know why I am here?

PIAO

You? A lunatic!

MAN

It looks like you really lose yourselves. Where are you going? Do you know your own directions?

LUO

(naughtily) And you? Where are you going?

PIAO

Xiao Luo!

MAN

I? I don't know. Neither do I know where I am. Please you tell me!

LUO

Why should I tell you?

PIAO

(laughing) Yes. Why should we tell you?

MAN

Why? I never think of it. Forget it. Go now.

LUO

Where are you from? What's your name? And your homephone number?

MAN

What? Oh (smiling). Thanks for your care. I have no name. And no home or no phone, either. I'm not lunatic but very normal. Just I've been here for six days. But I don't know why I came here. Neither do I know where it is here. I shall leave when I make it clear.

LUO

(smiling) So you've come here just by way of this place!

MAN

(smiling) You are interesting.

PIAO

Xiao Luo, we have to go now.

LUO

What's so urgent? (turns to the man) Why did you just say we lose ourselves?

MAN

Do you love each other?

LUO

We-we-

PIAO

We are, of course, in love so deeply.

MAN

Then are you happy?

PIAO

We-we-

LUO

We shall be.

MAN

(smiling) How can you be happy since in love? You've lost yourselves in your own dreams. But you're happy. Keep your sleep. I don't want to wake you.

LUO

(puzzledly) You-

PIAO

(scaredly) Lunatic! Let's go, Xiao Luo!

[exit the lovers]

MAN

(smoking) They are so lovely! The entire world will bless them! But why did they call me a lunatic? Love? Lunatic? (to the audience) Do you long for love? Lunatics!

[Enter Yan with a cigarette in his mouth.]

YAN

Hey, buddy, have you got a lighter?

[The man takes out a box of cigarettes,and then fishes out a lighter from it.]

YAN

Thank you. (takes up the box) Yo! The same brand of cigarettes as mine. I always have it. And you? (the man smiles without a word, Yan returns the box) What a terrible weather! It's too cold. Buddy, I say, you're wearing so much that you look like a little daughter-in-law in confinement. What material is this clothes made of? (stretches out to touch the man's clothes, the man doesn't speak, still staring at him while smiling)

YAN

(nervously) Why are you ever smiling?! What's wrong with me? (looks at himself, the man smiles)

YAN

(angrily) What you fucking smile for?! Lunatic! (drops the cigarette, stamps it out) Nonsense! (turns to leave)

MAN

Wait!

YAN

What?

MAN

Please return the wallet to me! There is no money left in it but one photo of my mother's, so I don't want to give you that.

YAN

(in a panic) You-you-

MAN

I'm familiar with the taste on you for once I was also a thief.

YAN

(takes out a dagger) What do you fucking want?!

MAN

I don't need the wallet anymore, all right? If only you give me back that photo. In fact, the wallet is a fake worth 5 yuan. No use even though you get it. Besides, you're holding the dagger in such a wrong pose that you easily hurt youself. And, and, remember not to stab here. That'll lead to so much blood.

YAN

You-you- (drops the dagger, takes out the wallet and throws it to the man). You'are out of mind. You're a lunatic. (staggers running off the stage)

MAN

(picks up the wallet and dagger) Lunatic? Hehe, maybe I am!

[Enter Meng]

MENG

Have you got cigarettes? I want one.

MAN

Here you are. (lights up for Meng)

MENG

How sweet this cigarette tastes! I seem to be familiar with it.

MAN

Indeed? I always have this brand. (lights up for himself)

MENG

What is your name?

MAN

I-I have no name.

MENG

How should I call you?

MAN

Call me? No need. I'm very before you. It's OK for you speaking to me.

MENG

What if you go?

MAN

You won't find me after my departure. Why worry to know my name.

MENG

No-no-. Must I know it. Must you have one.

MAN

Why? I am I. My name is my name. Be irrelated. Even I myself forsake my name, what do you have it for?

MENG

You don't understand. People and names are inseparable. Names are actually people. Someday people leave, but names stay with me. Tell me, what is your name?

MAN

OK. You can call me Yan.

MENG

For being speechless? (excitedly)

MAN

No, three fires.

MENG

Oh, I thought you have the same name as His.

MAN

As whose?

MENG

My boyfriend's. Yan is his name.

MAN

Is he all right?

MENG

I don't know. I have now his name only. He is lost-long before.

MAN

Did you not look for him?

MENG

Yes. And I had found him, but he's still lost.

MAN

(smoking) You ought to forget him.

MENG

I have forgotten him. You're also called Yan. Whatever Yan, it's your name, isn't it?

MAN

Forget me, too!

MENG

I shall, but it is not now. (dinches the cigarette) Please hug me, will you?

MAN

No.

MENG

Why?

MAN

I haven't made clear why I came here. For six days I have been here, but without any reason. You know everything has a reason. I need a reason of my own.

MENG

Hug me before I give you one.

[Enter Piao and Luo]

LUO

Sister. How come you ran out again!

MENG

(excitedly) Ah, Xiao Luo, you've come. You know his name is also Yan.

LUO

You!

MAN

Yes!

LUO

You haven't gone yet!

MAN

Soon! I shall go after finding a reason.

[Enter Yan with a pontil in his hand]

YAN

Bastard! I was really frightened. Don't go if you have a lot of guts.

LUO

(looks at Yan) You.

YAN

Xiao Luo! Meng! (drops the pontil, coming running up)

LUO

Stop!

YAN

Meng! Meng! Are you all right? Xiao Luo, what's the matter with your sister?

[Meng, with a confusion on her face, looks as if in dream, Xiao Luo is very cold]

LUO

She hasn't remembered you. Go.

YAN

Meng! (comes up)

LUO

Get away! (Piao comes up to protect Meng and Luo)

LUO

Sister, let's go!

[Exit Meng obediently, accompanied by Luo and Piao, suddenly turns running to the man, getting hold of his shoulders]

MENG

Yan.

YAN

Meng, I'm here. (the man waves to her)

MENG

Yan (gladly). You know you've come here to meet me. For six days you've been here just to meet me. Do you understand?

MAN

I do.

LUO

Sister, let's go home!

MENG

Well, I'm off. And you?

MAN

I shall.

[Exit Meng, Luo, Piao. Onstage entire peace. The man comes up to give Yan a cigarette, another for himself and lights up]

YAN

Are you really named Yan?

MAN

Three fires.

[The bell strikes]

MAN

The seventh day comes. I have to go. And you?

YAN

Go.

ACT DROP

END