Beautiful You-Drama Skit

Beautiful You-Drama Skit

Themes: Physical beauty; inner beauty; how God looks upon us; distorted views of beauty; beauty that doesn't fade; God's idea of inner beauty
Categories: Life Situations, God/Satan, Christian Living, Spiritual Growth, Topical, Women's Ministry 
Summary:

When Linda and Paige are "caught" cheating on their diets a discussion takes place on the nature of beauty and how it fades over time.  According to Paige, "It’s so unfair!  One day I’m walking down the street turning every guy’s head, and years later I’m standing in the shower looking at a gray hair dangling from my armpit."  Linda has to agree. "I was looking at my legs in the mirror the other day and I swear my thighs have more dimples than a box of golf balls!"  After several more "put downs" and self-degrading comments, June, a woman who overhears their conversation, can't take it anymore and joins them at their table to set the record straight on beauty.  "God has a very different definition of what makes a women beautiful, " she says, "and it has nothing to do with what is external."  From there, June explains God is more concerned with what is in the heart, and the ladies begin to see God's truth in the old adage, "Beauty is only skin deep."

 
 
Style: Comedy

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Characters: 3 (3 Female)
Length: 6-8 minutes
 
Excerpt (Sample)

Setting: A coffee shop. 

As the scene opens Linda sits at one table sipping coffee and leisurely eating some kind of coffee cake while she's waiting for her friend, Paige. At a nearby table, June sits contentedly sipping coffee.

After a moment, from off stage we hear Paige's voice.

Paige:

(from off stage) Yes, I'd like a tall caramel cappuccino, please.

Linda:

(looking around, immediately panic stricken) Oh no! (looking off stage, suddenly recognizing her friend) It's Paige! (looking at her watch) She's early!

Immediately Linda begins cramming the rest of the coffee cake in her mouth. (This should be done for laughs.)  Paige enters with a coffee cup, just as Linda stuffs the remaining bit of cake into her mouth. Linda hurriedly places her purse over the coffee cake plate, trying to hide any evidence. Paige sits down at Linda's table.

Paige:

(taking a sip of the cappuccino) Mmm...I'm so glad we decided to meet here. Have you been waiting long?

Linda:

(still with her mouth full of coffee cake, trying to be non-chalant-doesn't really speak, just shakes her head and makes a "grunting" noise) Nuh-huh. (turns her head away from Paige, so she can finish chewing and swallowing)

Paige:

(noticing her friend's strange behavior) Linda? Are you okay?

Linda turns back to Paige, smiles and shakes her head "yes" then turns away again)

Paige:

You're acting really strange.  Are you sure you're all right?

Linda swallows the last remaining bits with a big gulp and a sip of her coffee, and then a loud sigh

Paige:

(finally catching on, gasps) You were eating a piece of blueberry coffee cake, weren't you?

Linda:

(shakes her head "yes") You weren't supposed to know.  Why did you have to get here so early?

Paige:

Well, as long as we're confessing...(she pulls out a donut from her purse) I had the same idea.  (smiles)

Linda:

(smiles) So much for our diets, huh?

Paige:

Yeah.  We lasted what, a week?

Linda:

Try four days.

Paige:

We're terrible. At this rate, I'm never gonna get back into my skinny jeans! (takes a bite of the donut)

Linda:

Right now I'd settle for getting back into my "you're-not-too-fat-yet jeans." 

At this, June smiles to herself.  It should be obvious to the audience that she in listening in on the conversation but Linda and Paige are oblivious.

Linda:

Face it Paige, we're never going to be as thin and beautiful as we once were.

Paige:

It's so unfair!  One day I'm walking down the street turning every guy's head, and years later I'm standing in the shower looking at a gray hair dangling from my armpit.

Linda:

(shocked) Your armpit?  Really?

Paige:

I cried for ten minutes.  One of the questions I'm going to ask God when I get to heaven is:  "Why can't beauty last?"   Why did He have to invent wrinkles and gray hair anyway?

Linda:

And cellulite!

Paige:

Don't even get me started on that!

Linda:

Tell me about it! I was looking at my legs in the mirror the other day and I swear my thighs have more dimples on them than Jim's box of golf balls!

June chuckles to herself

Paige:

Speaking of Jim, did he tell you what happened to him and Paul out on the golf course the other day?

Linda:

You mean when those two young bombshells were teeing off in front of them? 

Paige:

Yeah.  Paul said they were laying it on pretty thick, prancing around in their little white skirts, and flirting with our men who are almost twice their age!

Linda:

Why is it men get to age gracefully and women just deteriorate? I wouldn't blame Jim if he took off with a gorgeous young thing like that someday, instead of having to put up with a beast like me.

Paige:

First of all, you are not a beast, and second of all, you know Jim would never do that.  He's crazy about you!

Linda:

I know. He tells me all the time how beautiful I am...I just wish I could believe him.

Paige:

When I look in the mirror all I see is a shadow of the person I used to be.  I used to have flawlessly smooth skin.  Now, all I've got are wrinkles on top of wrinkles!

Linda:

I've got wrinkles and a belly pooch! (she grabs her belly for emphasis)

Paige:

Even my hands are changing.  Look at this. (she sticks her hands in front of Linda) You can't tell the difference between my skin and a piece of worn leather!

Linda:

You should drink more water.

Paige:

I'm already drinking four quarts a day. The only exercise I get is walking to and from the bathroom!

Linda:

(looking at her own hands) When did I get all these veins?  They used to be hardly noticeable and now that's all you see. Uugh!  My nails look awful.  I need a manicure.  Weren't you saying the other day your feet could use a little TLC? Let's make an appointment at the salon.  We'll go together. 

Paige:

I don't think so.

Linda:

 Why not? 

Paige:

I don't like people working on my feet. On top of dry skin, I've got varicose veins. I'm really self-conscious about it.  

Linda:

What a shame.  At least our fingers and toes could have been beautiful, if nothing else.