1.
THE
COLOR BLUE
By
Andrew
Mair
ACT I
Scene 1
MARKUS
Good evening...you are not
really here. You think I'm kidding?
You are all a creation of my
mind... Ok don't believe me.
But there are philosophers
out there that believe that the only thing we can truly be sure of is our own
mind. Everything else is just
imagination.
Everything else is unsure.
So here I am speaking to an
audience.
An audience I'm convinced
doesn't really exist except here in mind.
So it begs the question of
whether I am breaking down the forth wall when i speak to you.
The forth wall? You know what
the forth wall is?
It is that imaginary wall
that divides the players
onstage from the audience.
But since I created you
with my mind I must simply be
delivering a soliloquy.
Narcissistic?
Is that what you are
thinking?
That I'm narcissistic? Oh my
dear friends, (aside) of my own creation. You have no idea...
So we will get to that I
promise, but we are running out of time. And while I know I created you,
you wonderful figments of my
imagination,
I know if I don't move this
story along you will all get bored.
Because I'm getting bored.2.
I'm trying to figure out how
it all went wrong. My life I mean.
It was perfect the way it
was.
It was that class, that
stupid art class. The one
where I met her. I mean i
wouldn't have even gone to the class if it wasn't for her.
Well that and the fact that I
clocked my boss across the face. Six weeks of anger management at the local
community center, and it was on the last day... (Walks to the rear of a forming
line of anger management group members)
MR GREGORY
Alright here is your
certificates...
Several
other anger management group members grab theirs and start to leave, leaving
Markus last.
you know i hesitate to give
this to you. (Withholding it) I'm not sure you really learned to control that
temper. Especially judging by how you took care of my ficus last week.
MARKUS
What do you mean?
MR GREGORY
Well after
our group sharing exercise you tore all available branches off except one right
at the top, the one with just one leaf. I think it could be charlie Browns
Christmas tree at this point
...But aside from the three
pencils you crushed while we've been talking. You seem to show some improvement
from last week. So I figure some improvement is better than no
improvement...besides I dont think I could handle another six weeks...
Markus
doesn't listen he is distracted by Cameron entering.
Enter
Cameron, holding a large amount of art supply's and a plate of brownies.
3.
MARKUS
Great I'm just glad to get...
Cameron
drops everything, as Adam enters, Adam instinctively saves the Brownies as
everything else including Cameron tumble to the floor.
ADAM
Whew...they almost fell...
(immediately taking one brownie and begins eating)
CAMERON
(Jovially)
Great catch...now can you
help me up?
Markus
rushes over. Adam continues eating.
MARKUS
Here let me..(Helps her to
her feet)
More
art students begin entering and helping pick up the supplies.
MARKUS
What is all this stuff?
CAMERON
Paints, Brushes, pencils paper,
you know run of the mill art supplies
Both
start picking up supplies
MARKUS
I know I mean what's it for?
CAMERON
This is an art class.
MARKUS
Oh I had no idea an art class
was next...
MR GREGORY
That's because for the last
six weeks you were out the door before I could even dismiss you...
4.
Markus
shrugs off the last statement. The Art
supplies
are all picked up and stacked nicely by the students. The students begin taking
their seats some at easels some at tables. All with various types and mediums
of art, from painting, to sketching, to sculpture.
So now you can stay or go,
but it is time to get class rolling.
CAMERON
It was nice to meet you...
Cameron
walks over to where Adam has eaten all but one of the brownies, but has managed
to set up her easel for her.
Markus
just follows her not sure if he should
bolt
or stay. His appearance is almost as if he has a rope pulling him from 2
directions, with equal force.
MR GREGORY
OK we are talking about
Emphasis, everything in your piece is directing the viewer to look somewhere,
whether you like it or not...
All
of the students eyes are on Markus
And apparently until Markus
decides what he is doing, our focus is on him.
Markus
snaps out of his almost trance, and sits in the closest seat he can find. Next
to Darci. Darci slides closer to Markus. Charlotte is sitting on the other side
of Darci from Markus, rises quickly and shoves, A male student out of the seat
he is in so she can sit next to Markus. The male student crosses with his
sketchpad to the only available seat. Cameron looks at the now empty plate of
brownies, just as Adam slides the last piece of the last brownie into his
mouth.
5.
CAMERON
Did you save any for everyone
else?
ADAM
(With
mouth full)
No!
(Gulps)
But I did save them! (proud
of himself)
Scene 2
Markus
moves out to the front of stage L. The
rest
of the cast continue with whatever
activities
they were doing. Some working hard on their art others trying to look like they
are getting ready to start any moment.
MARKUS
OK so I went to art class for
a girl. Art
class? Nothing in my life has
ever lead me to notice art let alone create it. In kindergarten, the teacher
tried to teach me to color, or glue stuff, or cut stuff out. Believe me I don't
cut stuff out.
I took the crayons...and while
everyone else was
scribbling...I wrote out
Einstein's equation of special relativity.
Now thats Art to me. The idea
that you can sum up all of existence into symbols and numbers. That is beauty.
Its kinda of powerful. Its almost as if it was designed that way...I never have
believed in God, but now...i don't know.
You see. (annoyed) everything
is changed. She changed it. I never would have considered God, but here I am
wondering about it.
Wondering who is God,
maybe...(slyly looks at the
audience)...well as I said
before I did create you.
Maybe everything is a lie.
Its just a story I have created.
Maybe she never existed.
Because I made her up. Heck I made up you.
6.
That would be so much easier.
It would be so wonderful if I
had made all this
up. Then I could just tell
myself it was false and to go back to how I was. Drunk.
(Thinking)
Markus
sits down at the other table near Adam and Cameron just as Cameron stands up to
scope out what others are doing.
ADAM
Hello my new friend.
MARKUS
Ok what are you selling?
ADAM
Selling, what do you mean?
I'm drawing. You like?
MARKUS
Oh a nice...(looks quickly at
the drawing?) What is it?
ADAM
Its you. I drew you from all
the way over here.
MARKUS
It's black and uh... I can't
see me anywhere, I can't see anything except black.
ADAM
You have to squint.
(Markus
Squints) Tighter
(Markus looks like he is
trying to see the shape in one of those 3D magic Eye picture)
Tighter
MARKUS
I basically have my eyes
closed
ADAM
Right, you can see it now.
(Laughing)
MARKUS
7.
(Realizing
he has been duped) Ok. (Laughs a little) I get it.
CAMERON
(has made
her way to Darci and Collin,) So what are you girls working on tonight?
CHARLOTTE
Nothing, we keep getting
distracted.
CAMERON
Really by what?
DARCI
Are you kidding? By him? (Looking
at Markus)
Only the cutest guy I've ever
met. EVER!
CHARLOTTE
You said that about the last
10 guys you dated, until you went on two dates with them, and then you found
some amazingly annoying thing that had been there all along...but now you
noticed it.
If I were a guy I would start
a website warning helpless men about you.
DARCI
Whatever...I'm a romantic.
But I'm a realist to. If it is not going to work out, its time to move on.
CAMERON
All the while you have left
in your wake a trail of
broken-hearted men who are
now useless to the rest of woman kind.
DARCI
I guess dating can be scary,
your either going to Marry them or break up.
CHARLOTTE
Or Both.
DARCI
That's why I need to ask Mr
Cute out before you do. Mrs. Divorced 3 time before 30.
8.
CAMERON
Mr. Cute?(Laughs)Oh ya I
guess he is cute...
I wonder why he is here, MR
Gregory said he came from his Anger Group, you know the class before this.
DARCI
Anger Management. Maybe he is
one of those. Hot tempered full of passion sort of guys.
CHARLOTTE
Nah he probably yelled at his
secretary once and cried his way all the way to group therapy.
MARKUS
So your not really an artist?
ADAM
I try, but I only come here
because I'm trying to be
with people and learn to
speak English better. My name is Adam?
MARKUS
Adam? Really (chuckles)...
I'm sorry that sounds so American.
ADAM
Well that's not how its
pronounced in Tunisia, where im from.
MARKUS
How is it pronounced in your
language?
ADAM
Elmontasir Beellaah Elhafsee
MARKUS
OK............. Adam it is. (Both Laugh)
ADAM
I like you my friend.
MARKUS
That's weird, you don't even
know me.
9.
ADAM
You're a good man, i can
tell. You are my friend...
And if not I will kill you!
(Pretends to be serious then bursts out in Laughter.)
Cameron
makes her way over to Mr Gregory
CAMERON
So uh why was the new guy in
your Anger group?
MR GREGORY
Can't tell you Doctor Patient
confidentiality.
CAMERON
Whatever you bought your
counseling certificate online.
MR GREGORY
Well I still won't go into
it. But to tell you the
truth anger is not his issue.
Alcohol is his issue. He showed up every week but the last week smelling of it.
And since then he seems relatively incident free... Ive seen it before he is
trying to impress someone. But as soon has he gets her, or loses her he will be
right back on the wagon.
Scene 3
Markus
step back to address the audience, the students come and go behind him but
drawing as little attention as possible.
MARKUS
Just so you know I lied to
you...well kinda. I said that I met her because of this class.
That's true. But not that
first week when I went. It was the week before.
I had just left Anger
Management with a pocket full of ficus leaves.
10.
As I left the community
center there she was. Talking to this old bum. You wanna call me a drunk?
But there she was talking to
him as if he was her brother.
This was the same guy I
slightly kicked as I stepped over him each week.
But now I wanted to trade him
places.
He handed her his bottle,
trying to be kind and share what he had. She could even get a drunk to part
with his liquor. She took it, kindly smiled and I saw her throw it away as she
entered.
Huh, she seemed to genuinely
care for this creature. I looked at him. Something about him seemed to change.
I don't know what. I dismissed it. But I couldn't get her out of my head.
Throughout the next week, I
couldn't think of having a drink. And even more interesting, when I arrived at
the community center, the old man I loved to kick was gone.
Adam
sees Markus talking to himself, and steps out to greet him. The class is in a
self paced work mode. Everyone has a project. Darci is trying to use an old
lamp to light up a colored glass bowl of fruit. Throughout the scene she keep
adjusting int and moving it. but never seems to get it situated just right.
ADAM
Hey smile my friend, (looks
out into the audience searching) who are you talking to?
MARKUS
Uh...no one. I sometimes talk
to myself.
ADAM
Well...come over here I
brought some food from my country.
MARKUS
Nah, I'm not hungry.
11.
ADAM
Hey...come on...
MARKUS
Man, (a little snappy) why
can't I not be hungry when I say I'm not hungry.
ADAM
Because...(seeking for a
reason)
...your my friend. (Getting a
serious look on his face)
Beside you have to help me. I
need you help.
MARKUS
What...what is it.
ADAM
Today's the day I'm going to
ask Cameron out.
MARKUS
On a date?!
ADAM
Yes...why, shouldn't I?
MARKUS
Well, uh no...I mean yes. I
mean. Of course you should.
Why haven't you asked her out
before?
ADAM
I'm shy.
MARKUS
Shy? The man who last night
got us into three very
elite clubs where we met some
very famous people. And you say your shy?
We met Steven Spielberg for
crying out loud.
ADAM
And Gaga.
MARKUS
ya Lady Gaga too, what is
that?
12.
These past few weeks have
been a blast man, but why do you put up with me. I mean you drag me out kicking
and screaming each night.
ADAM
(Imitating him)
Yah you are always,'I won't
go'...'This is gonna be boring'...
MARKUS
Ha Ha...but you are right, we
always have a blast. And I don't even have to drink.
ADAM
See i told you. Food is much
better than drink.
DARCI
Arrgh!!!!
(Everyone looks up from what
they are
doing, Adam and Marcus look
to see what is going on.)
DARCI
This is awful. I cat get a
good light outside. I can't get a good light in my apartment. And I can't get a
good light here. I just can't do this...
Markus
and Adam sit down. Cameron heads over to Darci.
CAMERON
Can I help?
DARCI
Na...I'm just gonna pencil
sketch. I can't get this light and color stuff.
CAMERON
Maybe...(takes a step back
looking at the
bowl)...Maybe you just need a
different perspective.
Rearranges
the fruit in a more hap-hazard way outside of the bowl, then using the bowl as
a filter covers the fruit and half to bowl with Darci' coat that is hanging on
the back of her chair. Then motions for
Darci to look inside, Darci Burt's her head in the coat.
13.
CAMERON
See...
DARCI
Wow, that actually looks
pretty good...(muffled)
...color and light
everywhere...beautiful...(pulls her head out) but i can't breath very well.
CAMERON
(Laughs,
slightly) I'll get you a snorkel.
Darci
puts her head back under. Adam sidles right up to ask Cameron out.
ADAM
Helllooo...(kinda singsongy
from high pitch to low and back up again)
CAMERON
Oh Adam, I was just going to
come find you.
ADAM
Really? (getting his hopes
up)
CAMERON
Ya, I wanted to talk to you.
I wanted to ask you a favor.
ADAM
For you...anything. (Matter
of factly)
CAMERON
Tell me about your friend, is
he nice?
ADAM
(Disappointed at first but
then recovers)
Nice?...uh...I don't want to
lie to you...
CAMERON
So, don't, come on you can
tell me.
ADAM
Well, the thing is...uh they
way i would put it...
CAMERON
14.
yes?
ADAM
I don't want to lie to you...
(starts to walk away)
CAMERON
Fine. (Adam stops) But do you
think he would talk to me after class?
ADAM
Maybe, you
can make him smile. I'll bet he would
help you (winking) clean the room when everyone else leaves.
CAMERON
I'm sorry I'm kinda acting
like a silly middle school girl who is intrigued by the bad boy from the
parking lot huh?
ADAM
Ha ha... Wel yah kinda... But
maybe you can get him to smile I take him out and he just sulks the whole time.
But it is nice to have a friend.
CAMERON
You got it. I'll put him to work. I can't guarantee any
smiling though. I think that's how is
face is made.
They
both laugh. The other class members
start to pick up and leave. Adam can be
seen speaking to Markus and then Adam exits.
MARKUS
Adam, said you might need a
title help?
CAMERON
Well, I'm almost done, but
sure.
MARKUS
Oh I see, it's a hint?
maneuver a date?
CAMERON
Oh please.
(Coyly) are you trying to
FADE TO BLACK
15.
Scene 4
Markus
and Cameron enter Stage Right walk stage
L.
toward a park bench.
CAMERON
You are definitely not the
kind of guy i usually date.
MARKUS
What kind of guy is that?
CAMERON
Nice.
MARKUS
Well that's true. I don't
think I have ever been described as a nice guy.
Smart, driven, angry,
CAMERON
Cocky, (joining in)
opinionated, self centered.
MARKUS
Alright alright...
CAMERON
But strangely, human.
MARKUS
Well that's a new one.
CAMERON
I mean look at that class
back there.
All of them kinda broken.
You have befriended them. and
then there's Adam.
MARKUS
Adam,
I still cant figure out why
he likes me.
16.
I mean from all I can gather
he shouldn't give me the time of day. He knows the only reason I'm attending
this class is because of you. And I know he has been caring an olympic sized
torch for you. Darci says its been going on for months now.
CAMERON
I think he thought he needed
me. But he doesn't. He needs you.
MARKUS
Hey wait...I didn't know
he...I don't think of guys like...
CAMERON
Come on, that's not what I
mean.
MARKUS
Oh!
CAMERON
No he really needs a friend.
Outside of me I have never seen him take to anyone so quickly.
MARKUS
What Adam? Everyone likes
Adam. Wherever we go
everyone is always saying hi.
We can't go to get a
burger with out find at least
three people that call out his name.
CAMERON
Yes, but until you he was
always alone. Sure people would say hi, how ya doin. But then they would go
their way, and Adam would go his.
MARKUS
Wow, I guess I miss
everything. How do you see all this.
CAMERON
I don't know I have just
always been able to see
things a little different
than others. Like the light back in class. I sometimes find beauty in the
strangest things.
MARKUS
17.
Ya that stupid looking lamp
with that awful colored
bowl. And you created
that...that...well I don't know what to call it but it was beautiful. And that
thing you painted last week.
I have never been moved by
just paint before.
And not of anyone, or
anywhere. It was just different colored paint splashed all over the place.
CAMERON
Splashed all over the
place... (Annoyed almost angry, as if he called her butt big)
MARKUS
No, no... you see that's the
point. I never knew color had... had emotion.
Like right now you might be a
little red. I didn't know you could get
worked up and angry.
CAMERON
Red us not angry.
(Smiles slightly)
Everyone sees you as your
idea of red, but i think thats just what you put up. I see you as blue.
MARKUS
Blue? Really?
I think you have different
way of looking at things, but different doesn't make you right.
CAMERON
I'm not about this. have you
ever heard of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
MARKUS
The writer? Faust...yah...he
wrote faust.
CAMERON
Very good, you listened to
more than just your math and science classes I see.
MARKUS
I had to do a report on
Faust...I loved it...I have
never admited that till now,
but I still keep my copy.
18.
CAMERON
(Smiles, seeing some break
through)
Did you know Goethe was a
scientist? (Markus looks surprised)
No really he was into
geology, biology, and he studied color? Specifically color and the the emotions
it provokes.
MARKUS
Wow, I was almost
interested...
CAMERON
Huh, just when I thought you
were becoming nice to talk to. (starts heading off stage)
MARKUS
I'm sorry, thats the prick in
me...what did he say about color? I suppose you are talking about blue?
CAMERON
He said blue is is powerful — but it is kind of on the negative
side. He said blue was negative but stimulateing, kind of a contradiction between
excitement and repose.
MARKUS
I don't like blue. I'd rather
be Red, or yellow, or green. Come on I don't want to be blue.
CAMERON
You don't have to stay blue.
MARKUS
She says as yellowish green
as she can.
CAMERON
Oh your right, I am green,
today, tommorrow i''l be red, and orange.
MARKUS
And white?
CAMERON
No I don't think I will be
white.
No I think I will always have
a little color.
19.
MARKUS
Why do you just fascinate me?
CAMERON
I don't know you don't even
know me.
MARKUS
But I do. (Cameron stares at
him)No really I do. It as if I have always known you. But everything about you
shakes my thinking.
CAMERON
You're too kind
(sarcastically)
MARKUS
Everything.. the way you
dress... the way you think...and your art...who paints light?
CAMERON
Well actually there is a
whole movement, Impressionism.
Although Im not an
impressionist...
MARKUS
Of course there is...
I could never look at the
world your way.
The world is just the world,
the light is just what happens to it. It is just the effects of the sun.
CAMERON
No...light is its own bringer
of truth. I paint not just the light, but the light that has reflected off or
filtered through something, or someone. When light does that. It pulls the
beauty of them with it. I don't paint light I paint the soul things.
MARKUS
You say that as if you were
the mother to everything.
As if the totality of man,
beast and matter could be wrapped and swaddled up in your arms. I know you see the same ugly world I do. but
somehow you see it through a mothers eyes.
20.
CAMERON
(Looking
deeply at Markus, Markus not wanting
to fully look at her) I don't see you as a mother would...
MARKUS
Maybe
thats for the best... (steps closer) (They
kiss)
BLACK OUT
Scene 5
MARKUS
I didn't want that kiss to
end. But then I thought. I also didn't want that moment to turn into one of
those sloppy drawn out kisses of a 16 year old boy. Good thing girls have
hormones too, or us guys would never get kissed again.
I put her in a cab. and only
after she was gone did I realize. I would have to wait to till class to see her
again. I didn't know where she lived I didn't have her cell.
So all I have had to do this
last week is think. Not in the way im used to.
SO I created You. You are my
children. My minions. My disciples.
Don't thinks so?
Apparently you have sat there
listening to me carry on for the last 30 minutes. And I haven't even heard any
complaint. How's that for narcissistic?
But is this my soliloquy? Or
is it a monologue. If its a soliloquy it would mean everything is in my head
and everything revolves around me. If its a monologue then I at least am
venturing out of my head, if its a monologue maybe i din't create you. Wait if
I didn't create you what are you doing here?
(Walks a little ways to the
center of the stage)
21.
I will just have to wait for
class. I don't know what is different. But something is. I want to tell her
what it is, but I think she will know. She is that way. She sees things
different than other people.
EXIT
Scene 6
The
class room, Darci, Collin, and several class members are decorating the room
and setting up tables.
CHARLOTTE
It was nice wasn't it?
DARCI
Yes very.
CHARLOTTE
I never know what to do with
myself in church. I feel like everyone is judging me, yet I feel like I belong
all at the same time.
DARCI
Thats because you are judging
everyone else, so you fit right in. (Collin shoots Darci a look, but Darci
smiles back, they both laugh slightly then embrace. MrGregory comes in and
joins in the hug. They all are crying.)
CHARLOTTE
I hate funerals.
MR
But Im glad we went. If only
for Adam.
DARCI
Poor Adam, man is he taking
this hard.
CHARLOTTE
Shouldn't we just put up a
sign that says class is
canceled this week, and give
a phone number for people to call and find out.
22.
MR GREGORY
I don't
want to tell people that way. I have addresses for everyone that registered but
no phone numbers. Besides, funerals are more for family... but, this is kind of
like a family, we need each other. (Adam
enters)
ADAM
Helloooo, my friends...(He
hugs Mr Gregory then speaks softly)are we all here? Who's missing.
DARCI
No we are not sure who is
coming or not.
ADAM
Well lets go find them. We
lost a friend. Let go get them, they must know. (Markus enters)
MARKUS
There you are...(Adam grabs
and hugs Markus, Markus is dumbfounded)
ADAM
Everything will be fine my
friend. You are my Brother.
MARKUS
Sure...ya...everything will
be fine. Whats going on.
DARCI
We weren't for sure but I
figured you hadn't heard.
CHARLOTTE
I know you weren't in this
class very long, but we still consider part of our little art family.
MARKUS
Nice...Thank
you?...Heard?...heard what.
MR./MRS GREGORY
Markus, come here. (Markus
steps toward Mr./Mrs
Gregory, everyone else moves
back and half heartedly pretends to set up)
We have had misfortune bear
its ugly head.
MARKUS
What?...now quit dragging
things on. it doesn't make it better. Who died?
23.
MR GREGORY
Cameron was in an accident
last week.
MARKUS
Last week?!
MR GREGORY
Sometime after class.
MARKUS
It was a week ago? the night
of class? (Markus is stunned)
MR GREGORY
I was hoping we could hold a
little memorial.
(Markus says nothing but
follows as Mr Gregory walks back toward the class members)
I used to sit with Carmen and
we would play the color game as the different members of this class would come
in. She gave me Goethe's theory of Color as a gift for my birthday. Goethe
believed that all color held emotion.
It was always fun to guess
what color each of you were as you had good and bad happen in your lives. I
knew of no one who had more light and color than Cameron. She was my friend, my
sister, my muse. For when we would speak of art with each other we would find
new ways to appreciate it.
She called me her teacher,
but she was mine. She
taught me more about beauty
and friendship than anyone since my own dear mother...
MARKUS
Well its all false!!! Its
crap. It means nothing!!!
you think that color has any
emotion or power to do anything. As i told her last week, light is what happens
to us. Light, and color eventually fade away. Darkness is whats real. Darkness
is where everything began and where everything will end.
24.
ADAM
My friend...
MARKUS
I'm not your friend...
I don't know why you ever
thought I could be your
friend. You don't need
friends...its ok to be alone.
Thats all you can count on
anyway!
EXIT
Class
members stand stunned, and emotional. No
one
knows what to say. Darci finally steps out to speak.
DARCI
Markus is still loved here,
but I cannot let that be
the last word. Cameron also
taught me about color. She did it with her Art, her words and with her life.
She showed in her life that it was ok to be blue one day or red the next. That
often love can encompass all the colors. She told me that some people think
black encompasses all colors, but she believed it was Red. Red is not the color
of anger, it is the color of passion and of love. I know of no other person
that was redder than Cameron.
CHARLOTTE
Cameron told me once, that
light and darkness,
brightness and obscurity, or
light and the absence of light, are necessary for color.
Gods may be in the light,
Devils may be in the
darkness. But we my friends
are full of life and color.
BLACKOUT
25.
Scene 7
Marcus
addresses the audience.
I've never even tried to draw
before I came here. My life is one of logic. 1+1=2, e=mc squared. But then you
artists you dreamers have to say look from another view. I always thought there
was one view. Until I realized that 1=1 but also 1=. 99999999999 infinity.
How is there logic in
infinity. How is there light in infinity. I can see only darkness.
Markus
sits down at the bar that has appeared behind him. He is not drinking just
nursing a shot. It will have been his first drink, since meeting Cameron.
WAITRESS
Is there something wrong with
that? Its been over an hour. Did I get an eyelash in it?
MARKUS
No its just fine. (Lifts the
glass looks at it, is about to drink) huh...there is an eyelash in here.
WAITRESS
you sure you want another? I
mean I'm about ready to kick you out for NOT drinking. Usually its the other
way around. Bars are weird they are the only establishment I know that will
kick you out for buy to much of their product.
(Looks for more glasses)
Just a second I got to get
more glasses from the
back. I don't have any wash
help so I have extra clean ones in the back. When I run out I close. (goes
through the door) This light back here is kinda distracting so I usually keep
it off when I'm not back here.
Waitress
flips the light on, as she enters the kitchen a beam of light bounces across
the bar and turns the dark bar into a light bathed picture
Markus
looks around and is reminded of Cameron's light obsession.
Starts
looking for something.
26.
MARKUS
Hey...Do you have any paper?
Waitress
re-enters with a bus tub of glasses sets them on the Bar
WAITRESS
Ya there is some under the
register.
Waitress
heads back out to turn the light back off
MARKUS
Could you leave that light
on?
WAITRESS
Fine by me, this place is to
dark anyway. My third
husband always said we should
have more light, but the drinkers always want it dark and gloomy.
MARKUS
Third husband? (walks around
to the register)
WAITRESS
Here let me get that for you.
(walks over to get some paper)
MARKUS
Do you have a pencil
(Waitress pulls a pencil from behind her ear) Thank you. (Markus sits down and
starts to draw) How many husbands have you had?
Markus
starts frantically sketching, while Wairess carrys on.
WAITRESS
Only five, but my third
husband was my favorite. I
divorced all the rest,
couldn't stand em. But I can't help but think I like them at first. Usually I
find something annoying about em and that turns into hating them. Hating them
turns into loathing them, and some how er other I end up divorcing them. Its to
bad I always see the thing I hate about them while we are dating I just figure
I can learn to live with it. You know I used to say dating can be scary you
either break up with them or marry them, or both. Except my
(MORE)
27.
WAITRESS
(CONT'D)
third husband, Jerry. Jerry
was my favorite. Have to
say he was my best friend.
Made me look at things in a way I'd never seen before...
Markus
keeps sketching away. Waitress finally realizes that Markus is completely
focused on drawing.
WAITRESS
Hey would you like that other
drink?
MARKUS
Uh what did you say? (Finally
looks up) No, no, are you going to kick me out?
WAITRESS
Nah, there's no one else here
I like feeling like there is someone else here.
Markus
acknowledges the audience. And starts to step away from the bar set.
MARKUS
I spent a long time trying to
capture the light that I saw streaming across the bar.
But I only had a pencil. And I needed some color. So I left, realizing I didn't need a drink.
I needed color. I needed her.
I was looking for anything I
bought some crayons at a service station.
It was like I needed a fix.
But just like Nyquil to my
alchol adiction, The crayons weren't enough.
I sat down on a bench
unsatisfied I wanted to find color. Any color.
I wanted to find her.
And all I
could find was the twilight sky. There
was almost a deep red transitioning to just a hint of orange. And then this deep almost meloncoly blue.
28.
I could almost hear
her...'that is you.' I could hear he say,
'The whole sky. That is you'
Well...maybe that is me.
BLACK OUT
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