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Another America

Overview

Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 0
  • Male: 3
Playing Age
Adult, Young Adult
Style
Comedic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
America, Present Day
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 6

Context

Shortly after their journey begins we learn how Dan, Jared and Clint decided to go to Las Vegas.

Text

JARED We rode 175 straight through to 80 and -

DAN Talisman!

CLINT Right. Whatever.

JARED And then we were on the road to -

DAN That’s what this basketball is.

JARED OK.

DAN Just wanted to clarify it.

JARED Consider it clarified.

DAN Right - over to you and onto -

CLINT Las Vegas!

DAN Which originally wasn’t part of the trip - in fact last month when we were planning the trip -

JARED A flashback:

CLINT It’s Vegas and we’ve got to go - to skip over it would be sacrilege. What do we tell our friends, we’re better than Las Vegas? We’re above Las Vegas?

DAN We could. Jared, help me out here.

JARED I don’t care one way or the other - I mean on one hand, it’s not in our budget - on the other, we wouldn’t go there otherwise, I mean will it ever be a vacation destination for us?

DAN If we don’t want to go there - why would we go there just because we’re riding near it?

CLINT You may not think you want to go there but you could be surprised. You know, like Elvis’s house, I don’t need to see it but if I’m in Nashville -

JARED Memphis.

CLINT Memphis. I’m not going to not go. I mean I hear it’s something to see.

DAN You don’t like Elvis.

CLINT That’s not the point.

DAN Well it sort of is. I don’t like bungee jumping but I should still do it because when I’m old I might regret it?

CLINT Well yeah, sort of. You may get to be old and think: now why didn’t I go bungee jumping or go to Elvis’s house when I was in Nashville.

JARED Memphis.

CLINT Really? Are you sure?

JARED Yeah.

CLINT I could’ve sworn -

DAN Jared says we can’t afford it.

JARED That isn’t what I said at all. I said it’s not in our budget.

DAN Then can we afford it?

JARED Not at all.

CLINT You’re not helping.

JARED I’m just stating the facts. We can’t afford it, but on the other hand how can we pass it by? I’m willing to bungee jump.

DAN You ? Bungee jump?

JARED No. The metaphor...

CLINT You’re starting to help.

DAN You are not going to bungee jump and I am not going to Elvis’s house.

CLINT Elvis’s house?

DAN I mean Vegas. I’m not going to Vegas. This trip is not about Vegas. It’s about -

JARED You know something, guys? I’ll go along with whatever the two of you decide.

CLINT You’re the deciding vote. You can’t decide to wait and see what we decide. Take a stand!

DAN Look, Las Vegas is antithetical to everything this trip is about. You can go there some other time.

CLINT Isn’t Las Vegas supposed to be fun?

DAN I’m sure for some people, gambling, great food, vulgar architecture, 17 Cirque Du Soleil shows, Siegfried and whoever - Pretty fountains and million of tourists from all over the world spending money on luxury they don’t need is someone’s idea of fun. But not me.

JARED I’m so totally in.

CLINT YES!

DAN What?

JARED If we’re gonna be eating carbs and riding bikes for the better part of three months let’s at least give ourselves a bit of a good time, OK?

CLINT And so the deciding vote was cast. We were going to Vegas.

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