“ The sheer scope of life represented in this play is a miracle in and of itself. In one conversation between mother and son, Vince Gatton plumbs decades of culture and progress, while examining the fragility of life and death from multigenerational perspectives. He anchors all of this with great simplicity, while managing to find humor in the most tragic and topical circumstances, and pathos in the tiniest and even silliest of moments. If they gave Pulitzers for short works of drama, it would be for plays like this. ”