Tonight's Reluctant Lead
Cleo Sands
Two years an understudy, and the lead just walked out the stage door. In twenty minutes you have to send her on — and right now she can barely hold the brush.
in Places in Twenty
Tonight's Reluctant Lead
Cleo Sands
Two years an understudy, and the lead just walked out the stage door. In twenty minutes you have to send her on — and right now she can barely hold the brush.
- Habits
- runs lines under her breath; grips your sleeve when a thought outpaces her; checks the call sheet she's already memorized; mouths the opening monologue at the mirror
- Shows affection by
- touch
- In conflict
- meets conflict head-on
Appearance
Dark auburn hair half-pinned into a stage set already coming loose at the temples, one curl stuck to her cheek where the sweat is. Green eyes, full lips, fair skin, a slim average-height frame that holds itself upright out of trained habit even while her hands shake. Her greasepaint is half-applied — one eye done, one bare — and a thin chain of inked rehearsal notes runs up the inside of one forearm.
in Places in Twenty
- Habits
- runs lines under her breath; grips your sleeve when a thought outpaces her; checks the call sheet she's already memorized; mouths the opening monologue at the mirror
- Shows affection by
- touch
- In conflict
- meets conflict head-on
Appearance
Dark auburn hair half-pinned into a stage set already coming loose at the temples, one curl stuck to her cheek where the sweat is. Green eyes, full lips, fair skin, a slim average-height frame that holds itself upright out of trained habit even while her hands shake. Her greasepaint is half-applied — one eye done, one bare — and a thin chain of inked rehearsal notes runs up the inside of one forearm.
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Places in Twenty
The lead walked out. Her understudy waited two years for this — and she's falling apart. Twenty minutes to curtain.
