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“Mike and I ran that one car fire last year. You remember that one?”
The bay feels cavernous and strange when emptied of its fleet of ambulances. Only one of them remains, parked at an angle in front of about 50 people — mostly EMTs and other first responders — sitting in three rows of folding chairs watching a play. This vehicle too might have to leave.
Elliot, the rookie EMT, takes a sip of beer at the bar counter. After she and her partner, Mike, get done responding to the call, Mike asks if she wants something to eat. “I think, sure, distraction is good, this’ll get my mind off burnt up bodies and shit,” she tells her friends. “And he says, ‘I’m in the mood for barbecue.’”
“If you don’t know the solution to a problem, make theater about it.”
An ambulance bay on the outskirts of Brattleboro, a Vermont town of just over 12,000, might not seem like an ideal location for a theater production. For Taiga Christie, lead writer and co-director of Counting Pebbles, “It would take a lot, I think, to convince me to perform it in a theater again.”
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