I wanted to like this play, for it was obviously a labor of love to the playwright, who was present at the performance and gave a short, pretty much unnecessary introduction at the outset. But by the end of the play I was amazed how sophomoric its political "insights" were, how featureless were its characterizations, and how uninventive it was, given the importance of its subject matter: how we deal with holocausts--Nazi, Turkish and American.

Three suggestions, should the author care for a rewrite someday: drop the shovel business, add a little bit more humor here and there, and fix the conclusion. No one in the audience knew the play was over.

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Too many comments on too many historical and international situations makes it feel like you are sitting in on 5-10 different seminars on world events and the historical personality of countries. Needs much much more focus. Also gaps between scenes are too long---sometimes the stage goes dark and 30 seconds to a minute goes by before an actor comes back out---makes you think it's intermission or just plain pretentious, as in what I just said is really important so think about it while we leave the stage empty.

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