Hope.

Lights rise to reveal a man pacing ever so slowly in a single column of light. He has an anxious, hoping look about him. He slowly fiddles with his face and hair unconsciously staring mainly downwards. Beat. He slowly raises his head after a moment, a look of confusion spreading across his face as he searches with his head for something that has disturbed his thoughts. He stops. He notices something out past the audience. He becomes fixated on it. A mixture of emotions predominated by relief and awe take hold of his face as his jaw drops ever so slightly open. Beat. Suddenly the man’s face shifts to panic for only a moment, and then loss and regret set in immediately. He heaves a sigh and lets his eyes close and his head fall back towards the sky for a moment. Beat. As his eyes open, and he takes one last look past the audience where his hope was, for a moment, he is defeated. He accepts this and begins to walk, past the audience, towards his failed hope. Lights fade.

Fin.