The Girl In The Mirror

I wanted to write a scene that would help portray the inner battle that goes through some girls minds while getting ready. Feedback would be appreciated Thanks for reading it :)

 Written by Clare Winkler

(Girl and Reflection are wearing the same outfit, should fit

 

girl nicely but be unflattering on Reflection)(Loud pop music

 

is playing)(Girl stands in front of an empty frame meant to

 

be a mirror. Reflection stands on the other side mimicking

 

Girls movements.) (Girl is wearing a dress and prepping for

 

a dance or party.)* Both sides of the mirror will need

 

identical make up sets so that they will look the same.

 

Girl: (holding up two different eye shadow colors to her

 

eyes) Green or gold (other colors can be used)

 

Reflection: (thinks about it first)Go with the green it’s more

 

interesting

 

(Both apply green shadow, and start to apply eye liner) 

(Girl

 

finishes applying eyeliner and scrutinizes her face in the

 

mirror)

 

Reflection: No amount of eyeliner is going to make our

 

eyes look bigger.

 

Girl: Oh, Shut Up (leans forward and applies more eyeliner)

 

Reflection: ooh Try some Lipstick. (Holds up tube of

 

lipstick).

 

Girl: That is so not my color

 

Reflection: Then why did you buy it?

 

Girl: I don’t know, I felt like it

 

Reflection: well there’s no use in wasting it, Come on we

 

never wear anything fun

 

(Glances at magazine)

 

Girl: Fine(giving in)

 

(Girl applies Lipstick)

 

Reflection: That’s better our lips are so thin

 

Reflection: (pulling at clothes) why are we wearing THIS.

 

It’s positively awful.

 

Girl: (picks up magazine and sighs) I saw it in here and I

 

liked it(set down magazine)

 

Reflection: (laughs and picks up magazine flips through it )

 

No, you liked it on the model. (Sarcastically) And you

 

thought YOU could look like that.(points at picture)

 

Look at how it fits. Its way too tight in the waist and look

 

our b***s, They are nonexistent and don’t even get me

 

started on our butt.

 

Girl: (more to herself while finishing her makeup) well

 

there’s no time to change it now.

 

(Cell phone rings and Girl answers it)

 

Girl: (pauses between lines ,you are having a 

conversation

 

on the phone)

 

Hello

 

Oh hey, what’s up?

 

Oh ok

 

Ok(let down)

 

Well feel better

 

No, No I’ll be fine (too fast you are actually really upset)

 

Maybe next time.

 

Bye

 

(Hangs Up)

 

Reflection: Told you so.

Girl: He’s just sick. (Pauses) (defensively) He’s not 

standing me up

Reflection: I never said he was

 

Girl: well he’s not

 

Reflection: what ever you have to tell yourself.

 

He’s too good for YOU anyway

(Picks up magazine and reads from cover almost 

mockingly)

 

oooooh 5 kisses that will blow his mind. To bad you won’t be

 

using any of them.

 

Are you still going to go or (mockingly) are you going to

 

stay here crying like a kicked puppy.

 

Girl: (indecisively) I, I ,I I’m still going

 

(Girl exits, and as she leaves Reflection speaks her line)

 

Reflection: (nastily) Have fun. (Count down on fingers 

from

 

5 as if you know Girl is going to come back)

 

(Girl reenters room sniffling once Reflection reaches 

about

 

two in her countdown)

 

Reflection: back so soon

 

Girl: (Quick pause then answer ) No, I’m just waiting for my

 

ride

Reflection: well they sure are late

 

(Awkward pause, should feel uncomfortable)

 

Reflection: I guess they aren’t coming oh well

 

(More awkward silence)( girl should be getting visibly 

more

 

and more upset during the pause but is trying to hide it 

from

 

Reflection)

Girl: No one likes me(not overly dramatic)

Reflection: and that surprises you, you’re not very smart,

 

you have no real skills and you aren't even remotely 

interesting to look at. You are so pathetic that you can’t 

even keep your date for the winter formal. I bet he’s with 

Stacy, I mean who

 

could blame him.

 

Girl: SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP (gradually

 

getting louder on the last one throw something at mirror.

 

Reflection catches it)

 

 

Reflection: Well if you are going be like that (ducks down

 

and disappears)

(Girl sits rips magazine in half and cries as lights go 

down)

• Notes

• 
  

  Girl is less bothered by her Reflection in the 

  
  

  beginning 

  
  

  but as you go on throughout the scene she gets more 

  and more upset.

• 
  

  
  

  Reflection and Girl are the same person reflection is 

  
  

  just the voice inside of Girl, simply voicing the 

  
  

  thoughts in Girls head.

Author's Note

this is a work in progress
comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You

Reviews

[ThePersona]

Way too many stage directions!!! You're taking away from the play, directions like the notes in bold should be obvious by the dialogue and how well the actor can act. Phone direction should be obvious it's unnecessary we all know how to have a conversation on the phone and what it should sound like from one person perspective.also you mention the outfit twice in your entrance directions, if your going to say the girl is wearing a dress say it as the only out line, for example "(Girl and Reflection wear the same dress, Fits bad on Reflection but well on Girl)" try to use less direction remember it's less forcing and more persuasion with directions, make the actor want to make the direction exactly how you saw it in your head.but the dialogue was well written