Candy was quite excited to get started on her theater class, taking a course on the technical side of the big stage since she wanted to be a costume designer. After listening to the assignment, Candy began to come up with multiple ideas for each of the themes she could get. The part she was most excited about was the props the actor or actress could use to add to the overall theme she was to be given.
What did she end up getting? A modern play with a cityscape backdrop. That shouldn't be too hard right? Now all Candy had to do was come up with the backdrop and props. Maybe she could even come up with a bit of the plot!
It had taken her a bit, but the backdrop was finally finished! She had decided to make the majority of the backdrop gray, white, and black to help set the gloomy tone of the skit she wanted it to be. However, she made sure to make one of the buildings stand out by making it pink, also deciding pink would play a major part of the play near the end.
Then the ideas began to flow for the plot of the play. Before long she had come up with three movable props. Well... movable set pieces was more like it. In the end she had made a tree, a pink bench, and a trash can. The three objects themselves didn't seem like much, but to the plot of the story each was important.
The play would be about a nightmare who has recently moved to the city from the forest for a new job, her being devastated by how little trees there were here and feeling lonely through it all. The nightmares tells the audience this as she walks onto the stage, coming to the tree and smiling at it. Her only real comfort she tells the audience as she sits down on the bench is this small park with this cherry blossom tree not too far from her apartment (Which she points out is the pink one), but soon comes to learn from a newspaper she sees crumbled up in the trash and takes out to read more that the tree is to be cut down so a new shopping center will be able to be built here.
She then begins to contemplate what to do, wanting to save the tree and the park but unsure how to do it. She speaks wishing to see the tree show its beautiful pink flower petals once more, but knowing it will not due to it being the middle of summer and the project starting right before autumn. She then mentions why the pink petals mean so much, because when she was at her most lonely when first coming here in the spring, she saw the tree in full bloom and finally felt like she was home. Now the tree will soon be gone and home will no longer be here with her.
In the end she comes to the conclusion she is just one nightmare, and that she can't do anything without any other nightmares supporting her, and thinks from the newspaper article that everyone wants the store more than the tree. In a state of complete sadness from the fate of the tree, she begins to walk off stage back home, crumbled newspaper in hand while the sound of construction slowly begins to start.
