This wonderful Neo-Brechtian play bounces between "nineteen-nineteen-something-something" and today as it examines college protests done as activity rather than action. In a time where there is no war to stop and no revolution to commence, what is a protest minded activist to do? These four ceaselessly entertaining characters reflect on this twenty some years on in a play that shows how the protest of politics can often take a second seat to the politics of protest. A fantastic piece.

When the past and the present converge, memory can draw natural lines of demarcation between recollections and truth. Ian Thai gives us wonderful, quirky comedic characters and employs a successful use of flash back to allow us to engage in a dance down nostalgia lane that is very satisfying. A unique play in scope that will prove a wonderful trigger for personal recall of your own "then and now".

I laughed out loud more than once reading Thal's deft and agile prose. His characters possess unique voices, brimming with literary/historical/philosophical allusions and irreverent humor which authentically capture the competitive cleverness unique to the verbal sparring of smart early-twenty-somethings.

What I find most resonant is the play's exploration of nostalgia, and the mythology of self created from year to year and across the decades. Thal's young characters are working overtime to define their identities, while their older selves variously long for, criticize or reimagine who they once were.