"Smoking Beauty"
(Lights up. Beauty sits down in a secret location in the woods)
(She hums opera and takes in nature)
(She is a love child who has just watched the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty. It's the 1960's and she dresses in attractive rags and has never cut her hair)
(She sits and sings the last line of Aurora's first song while taking out a lighter)
"And bring back a love song to me"
(Beat)
Oh my. (Laughs at an inside joke) Why must they always treat me like an infant?! And SHE'S no better (talking about Flora) "Don't go too far! Don't talk to strangers!" She'd love it if I was some introverted forest bumpkin. (Mumbles) Paranoid woodland dwellers....(mutters as she takes out a small purse, smiles and begins to talk to it. She's a very lonely girl)
But she can't watch me forever. In fact, I already met someone! Yes, I did, and he's a total prince. We take long walks, talk all night, and one night he walked me home, pulled me into a hug...and then...yeah I stopped daydreaming.
(Beauty takes out a cigarette/joint, whichever the actress prefers lights it and takes a very long drag)
(She MUST hold the smoke in her mouth through the following)
Yes, it's only a delusion of grandeur.
(Exhale)
BUT! They say if you hallucinate the same thing over and over again, it's bound to come true!
(Another very long and longing drag. She's not a novice here)
(Holds smoke)
And I've tripped over him so many times...
(As she hums the last line of "Once Upon A Dream" she makes it to the end before submitting to a coughing fit)
(She smiles and giggles. That's all we'll get from her for a while)
(scene)
Thoughts?
~Rose Russo
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