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In 2015, graduate student Dexter discovers a politically explosive play by the otherwise ordinary playwright A. R. Gurney and urges professor Alice to stage it before the government destroys the script. In 2027, the now-married pair describe how their nationwide performances of the lost play transformed society, while the work’s staged seminar also satirizes modern incivility, religion and political life.
Joan, an editor, helps Nick, a New York fire captain, prepare eulogies for eight firefighters who died under his command during the World Trade Center collapse.
In 2015, graduate student Dexter discovers a politically explosive play by the otherwise ordinary playwright A. R. Gurney and urges professor Alice to stage it before the government destroys the script. In 2027, the now-married pair describe how their nationwide performances of the lost play transformed society, while the work’s staged seminar also satirizes modern incivility, religion and political life.
Joan, an editor, helps Nick, a New York fire captain, prepare eulogies for eight firefighters who died under his command during the World Trade Center collapse.