Review: The Guys by Flash Productions

by Michael Meigs
Published on September 19, 2011

Playwright Anne Nelson reduces the September 11 catastrophe to human proportions, giving us only two characters of flesh and blood on this stage.

The attack on the World Trade Center towers ten years ago was variously recalled and commemorated around town last week in schools, churches, lodges, assemblies and official ceremonies.  The tone varied, according to the sentiments and the level of extrovert patriotism of those involved. The Austin Statesman ran a distasteful series of "Where were you then?" articles, as if any random individual's reaction to the flagrantly mediatized events could validate the nation's shock and anger.  …

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