Circle in the Dirt

Characters

• La Capitana - She is a Mexican Muwekma woman who discusses how Native Americans previously lived on what is now East Palo Alto and how the remains of her ancestors are housed at Stanford University. Lisa B. Thompson of the Theatre Journal wrote that she is "aging and ageless".
• One African-American woman states that when her children were in integrated schools the children had academic improvement but were psychologically harmed.
• An elderly white husband and wife
• A 12-year-old female Samoan American
• A middle-aged immigrant from Mexico