“ Every once in a great while, we’re lucky enough to bear witness to a piece of theatre that feels inevitable, where the characters are so specific and their conflict so authentic and so powerful that you can’t imagine it unfolding any other way. This is one of those plays. I raged with Valerie at the erosion of her idealism and passion for teaching; my heart broke at the Sophie’s choice that Marina faces. Like the Shakespearean tragedies Valerie teaches, each beat of this pitch-perfect play leads us inexorably to its haunting conclusion. ”