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 true 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.
No One Comes Back is a raw, unforgettable story about the ways we wage war and the complicated love that shapes us, whether we want it to or not.
- Thurs, November 27 | 8pm
Main Stage - Fri, November 28 | 8pmMain Stage
- Sat, November 29 | 8pmMain Stage
Written and Performed by Maureen Gleason | Direction and Dramaturgy by Stephanie LeBolt | Costume and Stage Design by Arina Slobodianik | Music Composed by Alex Connaughton | Literary Dramaturgy by Mary Kelly | Lighting Design by Tina Kovalski
This production is generously funded by the Newcomer’s Funding provided by Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community