The Many Loves of Mata Hari

This is a theater or movie script, which has only one set, the cell at a monastery in which she awaits her end.

It is the night before Mata Hari's Execution for treason in 1917. All possibility for a stay or pardon has been exhausted.

That long night before the dawn, Mata Hari recounts her many loves to a poor orphaned girl who has been assigned to help her prepare for the dawn.

Mata Hari's many loves are those of a young girl, a mother, a friend and a popular performing who did not want to be poor. As she recounts her many loves she takes pity on the young girl. Mata Hari bequeaths her worldly possessions, a trunk with her prized clothes and possessions to the poor orphaned girl, and encourages her to escape the monastic life and set out into the world so the young girl can live her life the way she would like to live it.

Mata Hari also reflects on the state of a world at war ... and the misfortunes of those, such as herself, who are caught in the conflict.

The young woman is smuggled out of the orphanage in her trunk the morning of Mata Hari’s execution by Mata Hari's lawyer and by her favorite chef who has brought her a last meal from Paris..

In the morning, the Eye of the Dawn, Mata Hari, walks to her execution with dignity, knowing that the orphaned girl has escaped and will live on ...