The February People’s Choice Award goes to…
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Bailey Jordan Garcia for their short play, This is Beauty, presented as a staged reading Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on February 28th. Congratulations, Bailey!
Courtesy of Bailey, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy!
This is Beauty
by Bailey Jordan Garcia
CAST OF CHARACTERS
SHE – 18 // naive and carefree
HE – 18 // awe-struck and playful
Place: Central Park
Time: November 15, 2018Notes: It’s poetry in motion — treat it as such.
AT RISE: Blank.
SHE / HE
Our story starts in the snow.
Snowfall.
SHE
It was her first snowfall
HE
She smiled and she said
SHE
This is beauty
HE
As snowflakes tickled her nose
SHE
18 years old and had never made a snow angel
HE
She lived in California all her life
SHE / HE
But she had fallen in love with New York City
HE
She fell in love with things quite often
SHE
Only things that were worth falling in love with — like the snow
HE
Askew button up shirts
SHE
Snakes shedding their skin
HE
Silhouettes of interesting people in interesting places
SHE / HE
And him
HE
— this was his 1,174th snowfall
SHE
So at first he found little wonder in the routine of the condition
HE
Having spent days shoveling the sidewalk back in Wisconsin
SHE
And being snowed in on important flights to grandmothers’ birthdays and funerals
HE
Snow was just another forecast
SHE / HE
But as she started to dance in the snow
SHE
He couldn’t help but think
HE
This is beauty
SHE
Neither one of them said anything to the other about
HE
How much joy it brought him to see her dance around on the ice
SHE
Or how it felt to hold his hand
HE
Because only fools would want to ruin a moment of pure beauty with trivial matters such as
HE / SHE
love
SHE
Because love of an object was one thing
HE
But love of a person was another
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