FAITH By Lee Osorio FAITH: mid-thirties, female, Black THEO: late thirties, early forties, male, Black ENSEMBLE ONE: mid-fifties to early sixties, female, Black ENSEMBLE TWO: early twenties, male, Black GRANDMOTHER: mid-sixties to early seventies, female, Black Note on setting/set: The play is set in Eatonton, Georgia. The single set is a playground. The action is remembered/relived in the mind of Faith. All locations other than the playground should be indicated through costumes and behavior…though miming should be minimal. Lee Osorio
[email protected] 678.462.8435 594 Griffin St NW Atlanta, GA 30318 www.leeosorio.com 1 (It is around midnight. We are in a small town park. Slightly left of centerstage there is a bench and a large outdoor trashcan. Downstage right- a swing set with two rubber swings. In the shadows we see trees. Downstage left there is a pool of light emanating from a streetlight too high to see. At the base of the streetlight we see an impromptu shrine: many stuffed animals, wilted flowers, Missing person fliers, and melted down candles. It has been there a while. Faith enters.) FAITH A woman stands in the shadows of the park. It’s late. Still she checks to make sure she’s alone. She is. Even so, she hesitates. For a moment she watches the moths as they fly in and out of the yellow pool of light from the street lamp above. She thinks of lying in bed, as a girl, and hearing the insects fly into the electric blue bug zapper that her mother had hung outside her bedroom window.