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Defying Gravity

Jane Anderson

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Late Teen, Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Eleven
Time & Place
1980s, United States
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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I remember a reporter asked me what I thought of my mother going into space. I didn’t want to answer so I hid my face behind my grandmother’s purse. My brother laughed so I hit him on the arm.

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End:

But all I could manage to do was to hold out the Lifesaver which was sticky from the sweat of my hand. My mother took it and put it in her pocket and I knew that everything would be all right.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Jane Anderson, Defying Gravity, Samuel French, 2013. pp.38.

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