People Without History

Richard Maxwell

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Opposing soldiers in the 15th Century attempt to understand memory and the last woman on Earth.

Cast Requirements

6 men
1 woman

Press

“And throughout the play, there are monologues and dialogues in which people falteringly try to recollect long-ago moments and sensations that like the wars they fought, refuse to come into fixed focus.”
—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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“When these people speak — and they do at length, often in lyrical monologues of unexpected beauty — it is with the semi-catatonic air of someone waking from a long sleep, grasping for fragments of vanished dreams.”
—Brantley, The New York Times