The captain of Ladder Co. 60 solicits the help of a neighborhood journalist ("When was the last time I heard anyone say they needed a writer?") to compose eight eulogies for fellow firefighters lost on 9/11. It doesn't take much to pick the scab off that particular sore, and this two-character play by Anne Nelson (given intelligent, tasteful, sensitive if nonetheless actorish performances by Anthony LaPaglia and Sigourney Weaver, wife of the first-time director, Jim Simpson) surely isn't much, written as it was in the first flood of emotion to address an immediate need, progressively less immediate. Even now, it can drill down to the same nerve as those thumbnail obituaries in The New York Times, and if you haven't had a tear brought to your eye beforehand, the exit tune should take care of that: "The Dawning of the Day" as filtered through the throaty, womanly, worldly voice of Mary Fahl, the same singer who began Gods and Generals on a similar note with "Going Home." (2003) — Duncan Shepherd
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