Genre: Drama
Runtime (min/max): 90 – 100 minutes
Characters (male/female): 4 / 2 (playing 17 characters total)

Setting: Budapest, capital of Hungary, and later Vienna.
Time: early 1988, nearing the end of the communist era.

“THE PLAIN OF MEMORY” is a drama set in Budapest, Hungary – circa 1988. The communist era in Eastern Europe is entering its final stages, when a young American woman on a wayward holiday is ensnared by an ambiguous operator who may or may not be working for both the C.I.A. and the Hungarian secret police, the A.V.H. She concurrently becomes involved in the private lives of a number of Hungarians, and unwittingly becomes the catalyst to a tragedy.

She survives, battered, but an unforgetting witness.

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Author’s Statement:
As a writer, I am far more drawn to moral and spiritual questions than to political didacticism. For example, in this play I query the responsibility of the individual. What justifies collaboration? Can all crimes be forgiven? Does memory save or destroy us?