SHON AND TOM: a short play in one act

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SHON AND TOM

A short play in one act

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Tom, a basketball coach
Shon, a television color commentator

ACT ONE

TOM: "Shon."

SHON: "Yes. Yes, Tom. What is it Tom."

T:"I just had a thought Shon."

S:"What is that thought Tom."

T:"There are millions of planets and some of them have life, Shon. Inevitably some of these societies are millions of years more advanced than ours. They have not visited. There is no evidence of their existence. We dream of traveling the stars, but we cannot. Otherwise someone would have visited us.

"The reason we have not been visited by any of these societies is that it is simply not possible. Physics is a dead end, Shon."

S:"But what about when the sun…"

T:"All of this dies, Shon. We have an expiration date. Physics is a dead end."

S:"Physics is a dead end."

T:"I have a great sadness all about me, Shon. It overwhelms my being. It is as if we already do not exist."