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Borrowing from both a painting and the retrospective exhibition of David Wojnarowicz,  History Keeps Me Awake at Night , this paper targets two recent American plays: Annie Baker’s  The Flick  (2013) and Matthew Lopez’s  The Inheritance  (2018). In both, the playwrights point to the neglect of history, or rather cultural memory, as I will insist on calling it, as one of the ills affecting a “historicidal” society such as that of the United States. An immersion into the present and concurrent obliteration of one’s cultural inheritance results in a populace easily manipulated in the interests of corporate control, and more importantly for the plays under consideration, into unhappiness and disconnection, an  erlebnis , in sum, which proves lethal for individuals and the larger groups of which they form part. Both plays further seem to argue that the most troublesome of such a thing is how little consciousness of the problem there is, a surefire indication that induced amnesia is making alarming headway among the younger generations.

When Young Playwrights Are Kept Awake Because of History: Cultural Memory and Amnesia in Recent American Plays