House With No Walls March 30, 2007

'A House With No Walls' is set in Philadelphia, 2003. A bitter public battle erupts when it is revealed that the site of a new museum enshrining American liberty stands on the ground where some of President George Washington's slaves once lived. The conflict between two African-American characters - one a political activist, the other a conservative author - is juxtaposed against the story of Ona Judge, one of Washington's slaves, as she struggles with the decision of whether to escape her bondage. Moving in time between the present and the past, the play explores our relationship to troubling historical reality.