Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams

Emulating Eye of the Tiger

ACT 1, SCENE 1

JOSE AND JOSIE. SIT ON THE BLEACHERS OF DAVIS BASEBALL FIELD.
HIS EYES TRACK A BUG WHILE JOSIE WATCHES THE SKY.
A FEW STARS SHINE.

JOSE: If we decide, we can become them.
JOSIE: I don’t wanna becomes them, I want to capture them.

JOSE CHUCKLES AS HE WATCHES HER FOR A MOMENT.
JOSIE’S CLOSES HER EYES AND SHE LEANS BACK.
THE COOL AIR CARESSING THEM BOTH.

JOSE: Ten years down the line we’ll fight. It will be so bad I’ll lost site of what it means to be us.
Josie: But it sounds like we’ll be together down the line. Probably when ten years turn into twenty.

JOSIE OPENS HER EYES AND LOOKS DOWN AT THE ABANDONED FIELD.
GRASS GROWS ALONG THE BASES; THE CHALK LINE TORE UP AND FADED.
CATCHERS GEAR LAYS OVER HOMEPLATE DUSTY AND BROKEN.

JOSE: When I start to hate you, when you decide we are no longer the same. I hope you remember it was you that decided. Said that we could no longer play this game. I want you to understand what kind of turn around this will cause you. If you lose me…then what are you?
JOSIE: I will be stars. I will be something out of this world. I will be hated and loved. I will be lost among the masses not understanding the…

JOSE STANDS AND MOVES DOWN THE BLEACHERS. HE LOOKS UP AT HER AND HOLDS HIS HANDS OUT WIDE. THE FIELD BEHIND HIM DISAPPEARS AND HE TURNS TO LOOK OUT, OUT AMONG THE STARS.

JOSE: Significance of yourself. Of how much you’ll grow, how much you’ll suffer. In thirty years’, time, I will hold my hand out again and hope that you take it.  Hope that one day we’ll be one again.
JOSIE: Then I hope when that day comes…I won’t be so scared to hold your hand again.