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I’ve been writing in the names that are...

Grandma Emilia

Leopoldstadt

Tom Stoppard

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Scene One
Time & Place
Vienna, 1899
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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I’ve been writing in the names that are missing the ones I know, which is by no means all of them. That’s what happens, you see. First, there’s no need to write who they are , because everyone knows that’s Great-Aunt Sophia or Cousin Rudi, and then only some of us know,
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Here’s a couple waving from the train, but who are they? No idea! That’s why they’re waving goodbye. It’s like a second death, to lose your name in a family album.

Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt. Grove Press, 2020. p.33

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