“ I have had the pleasure of hearing two readings of this play; the first at Chicago Dramatists as part of the First Draft Reading Series and the second at Prop Thtr in Chicago. Both drafts made me catch my breath. Cassandra Rose deftly humanizes institutions and processes that are historically sterile and opaque to civilians like myself: the Pentagon, the Secret Service, and specifically "the biscuit" of nuclear war. Cassandra's heart-breaking characters make a play about the threat of nuclear war a play ultimately a play about hope and the importance of honoring our collective humanity while we still can. ”