“ This short play about two people facing imminent nuclear annihilation manages a difficult trick: it’s very funny without turning its premise into a gag. The emotional stakes remain hugely real throughout, which heightens both the horror of it AND the humor. (Recording a final video message to their children is emotionally agonizing; the need for repeated retakes is human and hilarious.) I had forgotten this real-life incident at first, but what a terrific idea to examine: what would you have said or done or confessed, had it been you? ”