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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
A dormitory in Cornell University, present day
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Act 1

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MARAI I thought of you in class yesterday.

JACKSON Yeah?

MARAI I told you I have been working with Professor Keeton right?

JACKSON The pigeons?

MARAI Yes. The pigeons. Did I tell you what he was working on?

JACKSON No.

MARAI He was attaching magnetic bars to the backs of these pigeons to prove that it interfered with their own ability to use the earths magnetic field as a way to guide them home. Basically he is trying to prove that they have their own internal compass.

JACKSON That sounds cruel.

MARAI It is kind of, but that's not the point.

JACKSON Well what is?

MARAI It just made me think that if you would just stop carrying around all this crap on your back you would know which way to go.

JACKSON Well, the trouble is Marai, that's not the kind of internal compass I come equipped with. Mine is the other kind. The kind that's good at drawing circles. And measuring distances on a map.

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