Alaina Tennant doesn't shirk from depicting complex world history & personal history on the small canvas of a 10 minute play. The tightness of the time limit is played as a strength here, highlighting how brief the most impactful moments of our lives can be in real time -- & more often than not, they arrive not when we are rested & ready for them, but whenever we happen to get caught, ragged & bruised, in an opportunity to understand how another person's struggle is wrapped up in our own.

Two men meet and discuss the depths to which human beings can descend when they stop communicating, listening and learning from each other. Would that all humanity could be so open and honest as this piece and that art like this will remind us and warn us of how easy it is to slip into wickedness.

Alaina Tennant is absolutely one of the best writers of historical drama. In LIBERATION, she skillfully uses every bit of the 10 minutes to shine a light on past horrors and injustices and remind us why it’s important for us to remember.