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G.U.T.:The Grand Unified Theory A one-act play with seven blackoutsbyS.A. Scoggin©2009sascoggin@gmail.com 
 
 
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CHARACTERSTHOMAS GIBBS, associate professor of physics, is a fit man, mid-thirties, with short unbehaved hair. He talks with his hands while speaking as though continuously giving a logical proof.ELLEN MARIST, assistant professor of physics, is younger thanThomas. She dresses for comfort: no jewelry, no makeup, hairtied back. We do not need any of those enhancements to know thatshe is attractive.SEBRENTHA OF SYROS is a dark beauty, painted to reinforce that,gowned and jeweled to celebrate it.The JANITOR is a thin black man of indeterminate age who singshymns as he works. He has a strong island accent.The CHIEF is at the apex of authority. White haired and wise, hespeaks and moves as someone who will be heard.Nurses and doctors are interchangeably white, young, energetic,competent.GOD appears. HE needs no introduction.
 
 
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SCENE A large, spare hospital room. Stage-right is dominated by ahospital bed around which are racks of electronic monitoringdevices which beep and whir and hiss throughout. Above the headof the bed is suspended a flat rectangular panel, slanted down,about two feet above where the patient’s head will lie. Standingjust beyond the foot of the bed is a large video monitor angledso both the audience and the occupant of the bed can see it.Center is a door which opens to a hallway. Stage-left there is ahigh window, pretty big, which shows the sky and the tops oftrees.
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