When one twin goes to war, can the other escape it?

When her twin brother is deployed as a fighter pilot, a sister finds herself in a war she never signed up for. Bombings, cornfields, deer eyeballs and shamans, No One Comes Back is a story about war, twinhood and what it means to save each other when no one really comes back.

The play moves between rural US-American childhood and the wildly different paths the twins take as adults. One heads into military service, the other into art school, Berlin and a string of questionable survival strategies. With humor and candor, it asks how families carry violence by proxy, how love persists under pressure, and if late-night phone calls can bridge the distance between two twins at risk of losing themselves.

This raw and unforgettable new play explores the ways we wage war and the complicated love that shapes us, whether we want it to or not.

Play

Written and Performed by Maureen Gleason | Direction and Dramaturgy by Stephanie LeBolt | Costume and Stage Design by Arina Slobodianik | Original Music and Sound Design by Alex Connaughton | Literary Dramaturgy by Mary Kelly | Lighting Design by Tina Kovalski | Stage Management by Courtney Gosset | Producing Consultant: Christopher Springs

This production is generously funded by the Newcomer’s Funding provided by Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community