RIPPLE • A Play • by Rachael Carnes • 1

Hamilton Arts & Letters     Big thanks to Rachel E. Scherr PhD, and Joey Key PhD, Assistant Professors of Physics at the University of Washington, for consulting.   CHARACTERS CHARLIE & JULES A pair of black holes. One 36 times and one 29 times the mass of our sun. Gender neutral. ALBERT Man, 40’s, any ethnicity, rumpled, he has glorious white hair and mustache. German accent. TIME About 1.2 billion years ago SETTING A distant galaxy     At lights up, CHARLIE and JULES circle each other.     ALBERT sits in the audience with a bound script and a pencil.      [  >>>>>   FORWARD ]   + [Distillate © HA&L + Rachael Carnes {from the Greek bios} -- the course of a life.]