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Im trying to quarantine the experience too.

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Because the actual show is like a fire behind a door.

Every time I put my hand against the memory, its hot.

And here we see why Hnath wanted us to hear her warm, wry voice without any adulteration.

Its so extreme and yet so convincing, most of us might have taken it for fiction.

What happens next takes five terrifying months.

Its awful, but my mind occasionally fled Danas testimony, trying to find a way to discredit her.

Why, Id think, did she ever go back home whenever she momentarily eluded Jim?

What about this detail?

Waters, Hnath and OConnell have made something intensely theatrical that reaches devastating emotional heights.

All their distancing strategies have the paradoxical effect of drawing us close.

Dana H.is at the Vineyard Theatre through March 29.