Where are you now?
This scene is from the ten-minute one-act drama Cuts 2, between a man and a woman who communicate from different worlds.
Featured Scene – Cuts 2
GRANT: We are parting with nothing and our thoughts continue in a world continuing without us Knives work their way into them breaking them apart disorientating them till they no longer make sense to us I’ve looked for your skin in the hands of others and still I can not find you there I can not find the lines or the roads of your body or the leaves that may have left your marks your thoughts your worries ones that made us blind ones that made us wrong ones that made us right You fell once twice and unwilling to fall a third Not with your pride not your eyes smiling down then up and to the side the side where it felt most right tell me I am wrong tell me none of it matters show it to me make me unfeel you till I no longer sense where your shadow left its mark Take me down the alleys I know you’ve trod Let me step into your waters till my eyes are sick of your trials and all that speak of Dawn
A loud drum is heard from a wave crashing against a shore.
BLACK OUT
LIGHTS UP
DAWN: Grant
GRANT: Dawn
DAWN: Where are you
GRANT: Nowhere
DAWN: No sleep
GRANT: Not yet
DAWN: Don’t like your colour
GRANT: Do you see me?
DAWN: Feel you Pale and blue
GRANT: Stop
DAWN: Why
GRANT: You don’t exist
DAWN: I found something the other night
GRANT: What
DAWN: A place
GRANT: What was it
DAWN: Pretty
GRANT: Tell me
DAWN: It was dark I swam there Some bits of light sparks in a tunnel took me to an endless sea The sea was light blue Bright florescent I could hear you Almost You kept calling me closer I kept swimming I saw something that looked like a body I reached out I thought it was you Reached out My fingers reached but nothing Was a mass of seaweed Beautiful still but not you
GRANT: I called you
DAWN: You did
GRANT: I did
DAWN: Without words you called
GRANT: And you answered
DAWN: It was you
GRANT: Voiceless
DAWN: Distant still
GRANT: Carlie was here She left this morning We had coffee some opiate Couldn’t help myself
DAWN: I love you
Dawn hears the distant sound of a boat horn and looks outside the window.
GRANT: It docked?
DAWN: Not yet
GRANT: Where will it be going?
DAWN: Don’t know yet
GRANT: Will I hear from you?
DAWN: Not this time
GRANT: A nice place?
DAWN: It will be
GRANT: Secure place?
DAWN: How’s Carlie?
GRANT: She’s alrite
DAWN: What does her skin feel like?
GRANT: Soft
DAWN: It does?
GRANT: Yes
DAWN: What does she taste like?
GRANT: Like salt Like honey
DAWN: Like the sun on your skin
GRANT: Like the water in your hands
DAWN: A cupped hand of water A stranger once gave me a rose in water cupped by his hands
GRANT: On a train
DAWN: Yes on a train
GRANT: In the night
DAWN: Yes in the night
GRANT: Where are you now?
DAWN: Closer now
GRANT: Dawn
DAWN: Grant
GRANT: You won’t do it
DAWN: I will
GRANT: You won’t
DAWN: I have
GRANT: Stop
DAWN: Black
GRANT: Sun
DAWN: Broken
GRANT: Bloody
DAWN: Cuts you made ’em You carved ’em I feel nothin’ when I don’t think of you I feel free Open Like the sky I feel fire burning the horseshoe Feel like a bird Like an eagle You ever seen an eagle? You know what eagles do? When I was a little girl I wanted a giant tattoo of an eagle My mother’s skin sunk into my own I wanted what I saw in them streets Grant Wide open You shoulda seen ’em The water emerald blue The flag floating inside of ’em Yellow as if the sun had a switch to turn on their smiles Their rhythm Their Red Reds Reddening Like Crimson You shoulda seen ’em We didn’t stop moving Grant the night didn’t exist Now it’s dark stolen cold The night is endless the night never ends I don’t see their smiles I don’t hear their laughs I don’t see you I sense you Sensed you When I sense you I sense you all over I sense you in a world outside of my own Distant Raising Yellow Red Speeding Blue Further Nearer Closer Far Split in two Into two A thousand cuts removed Fallen broken bloody blue and moving still moving like you do Like I knew
GRANT: Still
DAWN: Still
GRANT: It meant nothing
DAWN: Nothing is still something
GRANT: Nothing? Nothing is an end Dawn
DAWN: Don’t be unkind Grant
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Scene Summary
Cuts 2, is a ten-minute, one-act drama between a man and a woman. It is the second part of the original one-act play, Cuts. The play takes place in a river boathouse as Grant and Dawn continue to communicate between worlds, facing their past and present.
- Genre: Drama
- Length: ~5 minute scene
- Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
- Themes: love
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Cuts 2 is a drama play script by Daniella Alma, 2026.
