A Short Play About Looking and Not Looking

- Turn it back on.

- I'm not looking at that

- It's Dermot Murnaghan.

- All these pictures of I'm not looking at that why do they need to show that?

- They have to.

- All those skinny naked people with their ribs and their stomachs and ugh?

- They have to show it.

- It's horrifying.

- Turn it back on.

- I'm not looking at it.

- You have to.

- I'm sorry I physically I can't look.

- It's your duty to look.

- Fuck off. My duty?

- If you don't look, that's you looking away isn't it?

That's you saying, this is ok, 
I'm turning a blind eye to this, 
I'm looking away.

You have to look at it.

- but it's horrifying

- Do you not see?

- What am I achieving by looking?

- You're confronting it.

- I'm not.

I'm getting used to it.

I'm making it normal.

I'm acclimatising.

If I look for long enough the holocaust will become ok.

If I look for long enough I won't care.

- Looking doesn't make it ok.

- The world needs more people who can't look.

- Turn it back on.