Follicle Follies

“The Follicle Follies”
Setting: Informal, passing in hallway after a church service, or concert or other gathering.
Persona: Mother and Father, an interracial couple, one black one white

Baby, biracial with an extravagant, beautiful head of hair, can be a doll

People, 4 of them, white.

Note: add pauses, gestures, and glances as necessary
Person 1: Good morning, good to see you.
Mother : Good morning, good to see you too.
Person 2: Look at the cute little baby; she’s getting so big!
Person 3: How old is she?
Father: Just under a year.
Person 4: She’s so cute!
Person 1: Look at her hair.
Person 2: It’s hair!
Person 3: Yes it’s some hair.
Person 4: It’s really hairy hair.
Person 1: It’s hairy and it’s on her head.
Person 2: It’s curly.
Person 3: It’s really curly, and it grows out of her scalp.
Person 4: But not that curly, just kind of curly.
Person 1: It’s wild and curly but not really curly but certainly hairy. Person 2: It’s kind of like fur in kind of furry fuzzy frizzy way. Person 3: But it’s hair, and it grows, up and out and to both sides. Person 4: Wild and curly but not curly, kind of fur-like but really hairy hair.
Person 1: It looks like her mother’s hair.

Person 2: It looks like her father’s hair.

Person 3: It looks like a combination of both their kinds of hair.

Person 4: It looks like a combination of their hair, hairy, curly but not curly, kind of like wild fur that grows, out of her head in fuzzy frizzy curls.

Person 1: Can you braid it? It’s so wild and it’s hairy.

Person 2: Can you pull it into a ponytail? It’s so curly but its not.

Person 3: How do you wash it? It’s so furry and fuzzy and frizzy.

Person 4: Can I touch it? It looks so soft.

Mother and father exchange glances. Put hat on baby. Put on coats.

Mother: We’ll be seeing you.
Father: Have a good week.