You never found someone you wanted to have a family with?
Drama scene from eplay, “Sugarland” focuses in on Letty and Matias, two people who question what could have been had they dated sooner.
LETTY: Take me.
MATIAS: You’ll come with me?
LETTY: Yeah.
MATIAS: …Why?
LETTY: Why not?
MATIAS: I dunno –
LETTY: Your Mum will see you with me right, which means you’ll show her you’ve changed.
MATIAS: She’ll be shocked…seein’ how gorgeous you’ve become.
LETTY: (smiles) Come on, let’s go to it. Whatever drama you think will happen most probably won’t, ’cause I’ll be a distraction – a shiny red object walkin’ by your side.
MATIAS: What’s that..shiny, red what?
LETTY: My dress. I have the most perfect red dress for a barbie. Not too flashy, but it’s very pretty…
MATIAS: I like it – I mean, the sound of it.
LETTY: Do ya?
MATIAS: Yeah.
LETTY: So?
MATIAS: What?
LETTY: Aren’t ya goin’ to invite me then?
MATIAS: Right. Er. You wanna come to my Mum’s barbecue, then?
Letty kisses Matias.
You make me feel almost guilty.
LETTY: Guilty? What for?
MATIAS: Nah, I just didn’t think you’d be interested in me still.
LETTY: Still?
MATIAS: After all these years. Makes me sort of wonder what would have happened if we got together sooner and stuff.
LETTY: Yeah, well, just never happened, innit.
MATIAS: Was the timing, innit.
LETTY: Timing and everything ’round it, yeah.
MATIAS: We coulda had kids.
LETTY: Maybe.
MATIAS: You never found someone you wanted to have a family with?
LETTY: I couldn’t stand any of them…
MATIAS: Never fell in love?
LETTY: No.
MATIAS: When you heard I was incarcerated, were you mad at me?
LETTY: Why would I be mad at ya?
MATIAS: I’m just sayin’ like, did you think I’d be somethin’ more?
LETTY: Yeah.
MATIAS: Yeah?
LETTY: I always felt like, that ya had potential in ya..to be somethin’ more than how we grew up like.
MATIAS: Why me?
LETTY: Why you?
MATIAS: Why me, Letty? Why’d you always say nice things ’bout me?
LETTY: ‘Cause I knew you had somethin’ in ya. Your eyes – they’re different from everyone else’s. It’s like you look right through people, like there’s somethin’ deeper goin’ on in ya. You always seemed like you had direction about ya, somewhere to be.
MATIAS: …selling drugs.
LETTY: (smirks) Well…
MATIAS: I still draw.
LETTY: Do ya?!
MATIAS: I never stopped, really. Spent most of my time in jail drawing, makin’ sketches, creating stories. I made up some of my own superheroes too, but — I done submissions – loads actually, but no one wants to take me on, so.
LETTY: You gotta keep doin’ it!
MATIAS: Yeah?
LETTY: Yeah! Keep knocking on their doors till they’re tired of shuttin’ them on ya. It’s the only way anyone gets anything done.
MATIAS: Dunno, Letty, it’s like impossible to break into comics.
LETTY: Keep showin’ them your work.
MATIAS: I have seven years of rejection letters stuffed into boxes. Two thousand five hundred days of my life in there.
LETTY: And you got ya whole life ahead of ya.
MATIAS: (sadly) Yeah.
LETTY: Don’t let your dreams die, Matty.
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In the one-act eplay. “Sugarland” Matias and Letty come together by coincidence after many years of not seeing one another. Their feelings for each other are still strong, which leads them to the possibility of being together or parting ways forever. 1 Woman, 1 Man. Drama.
