Characters:
MATT PARMINI, short, Italian, a discharged Marine sergeant,
SARAH PARMINI, Jewish, a psychiatrist and Matt's wife,
TROTTER DANIELS, a gay white man,
EVELYN DANIELS, Trotter's upper-middle-class mother and Sarah's friend,
LUKE HARRISON, Trotter's husband, any ethnicity,
OFFICER JONES, any ethnicity.
With doubling, the actor who plays Luke Harrison could play Officer Jones.
Pre-recorded voices of:
Ameril Woods, African-American, a Marine Private,
Tony Esperanza, a Marine Private,
Ahmed, seven years old, Muslim-American,
Adam, four years old, African-American, and
Emma, a three-year-old, any ethnicity.
Dolls or puppets are sufficient to portray Ahmed, Adam and Emma in the first scene. The director should feel free to have actors portray all three characters and to have them fully visible but, as written in this script, dolls in silhouette represent Ahmed, Adam and Emma. Two men lying on the ground in the first scene do not move. Dolls or puppets could portray them. In a later scene, Privates Ameril Woods and Tony Esperance are also only heard and seen as silhouettes in darkness, so dolls can portray them, unless the director chooses to have actors play these parts.