It is bracing in its reminders of how many genocidal campaigns there have been against the Jews, evoking in vivid detail the cataclysmic destruction of Jerusalem, first by Babylon, then by Rome -- which he calls "the Stalinist Russia of its time".
All of it occurred against the backdrop of Sept. 11 anniversary coverage, with its reminders of how fickle life and death can be -- so many stories of people who either survived or didn't because of a casual decision about when to go to work or catch a plane.
As they dive into the pool at the old Huntington Sheraton, the grand Pasadena hotel where they're bivouacked, they marvel at its reminders of "bygone days of more leisurely and gentle upper-class style and elegance".
Despite all the bubbling affection in the play, and its reminders of the optimistic political mood surrounding the dissolution of the Soviet empire, Pamela Moller Kareman's production at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls underlines the work's elegiac tone.
This snail-like pace of change also says much about vanity: the fond hope of an immortal body as shown in the cluttering of Westminster Abbey with its reminders of the remains and corpses wait ing to spring to resurrection.
Often, these teenagers try their best to pretend that the attack had never happened, but its reminders are abundant, on the streets, in the news media, and even within their school.
