Title of the work: “Accepting to be different”.
Author: Clara Pérez
4 characters:
- Amalia: Shy and demure girl, victim of bullying.
- Carolina: Amalia’s friend who advises and consoles her, humble but less shy girl.
- Beatriz: Extroverted, conceited girl who makes fun of Amalia.
- David: Beatriz’s friend, who supports her in her teasing towards Amalia.
Setting: Neighborhood square in the middle of several houses, where the characters live.
Introduction: Beatriz and David are walking through the neighborhood square when they cross paths with Amalia and Carolina.
SINGLE ACT
Beatriz (laughing sarcastically): Look who’s coming, the nun of the neighborhood, the prettiest and sexiest.
David (laughing in a mocking way and trying to touch Amalia): Hello pretty one, you have me in love with so much… ugliness.
Carolina (annoyed and speaking loudly): Don’t you have anything else to do? Stop bothering Amalia.
Amalia remains silent, looking at the floor feeling very embarrassed, while the other characters continue arguing among themselves.
David (still being sarcastic): You see how the queen of the neighborhood has her slave to defend her? Nobody is talking to you, we are talking to your ugly friend.
Beatriz (approaching Amalia without stopping laughing): What happened you ugly, did the mice eat your tongue?
Carolina (very annoyed): Well now! Stop teasing her, don’t you get tired of it? You have been making fun of Amalia for years, what need do you have to hurt someone who has never hurt you?
Beatriz (stopping laughing and talking annoyed with Carolina): And what need do you have to get involved in something that is not your problem? I laugh at the ugly one, because her presence bothers me, seeing her makes my eyes hurt, and she insists on standing in front of me, if she doesn’t want me to make fun of her, she has to disappear from the neighborhood.
Carolina (speaking in a lower tone): She doesn’t have to disappear, this neighborhood is not yours, we all live here and we have the right to be in the place we want and you….
Amalia (interrupting Carolina and walking towards Beatriz): No Caro, she doesn’t bother me because her eyes hurt, or because she is ugly, she bothers me because she hates what she is and can’t stand that I am different from her, I am different and I am proud to be different. I can stand in front of anyone without feeling that they see me as a bad example, I don’t have to bother anyone to feel safe, nor do I have to show that I am very bad to be accepted. That’s what you do Beatriz, because you are insecure and you need to win the approval of others to think you are somebody, what a pity you are!
Amalia finishes talking and starts walking, Carolina follows behind her and they walk away.
Beatriz (tapping the floor with her feet): David, why did you let that ugly girl talk to me like that?
David (looking at her as if he was studying her): You know Beatriz, the ugly one is right, your eyes don’t hurt, your soul hurts because of how rotten it is, and it hurts me to have lost my personality to follow your game, you will have to look for another accomplice, the ugly one is absolutely right, how stupid we look making fun of someone to be able to think we are better.
David walks away from Beatriz and Beatriz is left with her mouth open without believing what she has just heard.
THE END