Somat ne ting Bon 26 Pebbles by Eric Ulloa iISAMUEL ERENCE SAMUELFRENCHCOM SAMUELFRENCHCOUK2 ater ight candle than ate dare (en enters the stage, reading a newspaper.) ‘15 erazy to me that we're on the map. Sic months Tater and our town ie stil on this national map. Everybody now knows where Newtown i (Bua. Communities ike ours don't just form themselves. A ‘rue sense of community comes from strangers wanting to come together and know one anther forthe greater ‘shod oftheir neighborhood, And we ned more ofthat nowadays, ight. (Says the name ofthe audience member in fro of her) See how easy and painless that was? Now you ty it Turn t your neighbor, check out thelr name ag and say"H (The audience tums and grits one another) And now we have a community (The actor playing ME enters) MIKE.You know on the thirteenth, you didet know where ‘Nevwtown was or that we had a lagpole oa exeamery, fora parade, Obscure was nie (He walks offeoge MN takes in the moment ‘of eulwartness and then moves forward) ENN. To know where we are, you awe to know who we ‘are So lets wie the sate clan, because Lets fee i, Te eight, Obscurity was nice (She takes out a piece of chalk and writes ‘The Toen"on the wall chalkboard)en JENN. They say the word i connected through six degrees, ‘but out herein Newtown, its about one. And i you ‘were born and raised here, everyone is fay, (Phe actor playing SALLY enters) ‘SALUGThe friends Ihave, ave the friends that I grew up with. Ido have a couple af new ones, but most ofthe feiends that Thangout with, I grew up wit, And people are ike, "Really? Because I don't even talk to anybody Tew up with” Butts. .everybody wants to come back, you know? JN. How many of you have been ut to Newtown? (Ger eation is based on ther answer Ether "Not many of you, hab?” or "Wie, quite abit ef you) [Newtown is prety spread out, uti al eomes together atthe center of town. And smack-da inthe middle is the flagpole (She draws acne right in the middle ofthe Playing space.) Ifyou haven't soon i, fs Us big huge lgpole with a ‘massive American fg high above the tow. Right next toit is Edmond Town Hal, (Ste draws a square next toi ana labels i ‘Edmond Town Hall” The lights come vp on CAROLE, There ia diagram af howe these ‘markings are laid ut tn the Back ofthis Acting Edition.) ‘CAROLE. dimond Town Halls the only two-dollar movie theater inthe entire stat. The town offices sed to be ‘there, as you might have guessed, but we had to move ‘them to Fairfield Hills Just too much bureaucracy 10 contain within a 1990s building I guess JENN. There ako a secret bathroom in there one flight ‘own that if noone is looking, ean be very help cease of emergeney... But dont tell anyone "Novi Main Steet runs staght through the own, (She draws a line straight across the playing space) ‘And all along it we have churches, restaurents, the lary and businesses lke the Dana Holcombe House Bed and Breakfast, (he draws title squares representing these structures and labels them. Lights come up (7 GEORGIA ond DARREN.) [GEORGIA We'd been living in Australia and Daeren hat been back to seis family herein the tates for mostly nineteen years, and soit was time to come back So we started researching as I had allthis criteria i had to be Ith tobe on the cost, and th east coasts closer to Ohio than the west coast, so well do the east coast ‘Um, it ha to be no more than an hour fom the coast, 1h, eause, ‘use all Ausuaians live no more than at Ihour fom the coast. We ea ope, DARREN. Landlocked does not work. ‘GEORGIA So I sid, "Look, I cat live in Ohio, soy I cant liven Ohio under any circumstances DARREN. (Langhing) And you had no argument from me ‘did you? GEORGIA. So we decide we want to be driving distance from New York, but somewhere tht was kinda similar to what the kids and us knew, which was kind of smal sleepy town. The very fst house that comes up isina place called Newtown, Now Newtown sone of my favorite towns in Australia, So, the name, and kind of everything its the idea of 2 “new town” So, Im all, “Les research this town.” And Just everything was ike, “Oh wow it has get schools” Ob! Ithas low eine” DARREN. Where we were living was just zero crim of any kind. They've never even lost x politician to violence. ‘They did however lose one Prime Minister how'd hey lose him?