Most of the play is set in the teachers' Lounge and it is the right place for each tete-a-tete that takes place among the four teachers, one administrator who likes night-time meetings, and one student who make this room their home. One teacher, Arnold (Dennis Skiba), is a contemporary of Pam whose sudden departure has left him friendless. Skiba plays the man's irascibility very well and his line delivery is always languid and deliberate. Jania (Angeli Lillman), the Spanish teacher, is the most at home in the run-down slum neighborhood where the school is located. Her friend Sadie (Sade Thompson), she believes, is her ally in the forthcoming closure but being a ghetto kid herself she knows better than to put to much stock in this friendship of convenience. Sadie is an optimistic loner who understands what a work-friendship actually is and she never lets it get in the way of her own reality. 

        Ricky has a secret relationship with Luge (Brian Raña) which makes him the most complete character in this collection of incomplete people who have all put their lives at the disposal of their place of employment. In fact, every one of them have built their very existence into their jobs. It is, in the final scene of the play, clear that the dynamited collapse of their school spells the end for romance, dreams and hopes, even simple day-to-day realities for these unfortunate people, young, middle-aged and old. It is the silent lesson for the audience, the company's inadvertent students: diversify your life and never invest yourself completely in just one thing or you're bound to wind up a loser at the final blackout.

         Skiba, whose Arnold is an emblematic picture of a teacher, is excellent in this role, almost as though he was born to play the part. In addition, as director of the play he has painted living pictures with his cast and crew and managed to move an audience challenged by the room to hear the words of the play clearly. 

         Raña and O'Dwyer make a fantastic couple who never seem fated to remain a pair but whose existence as such brings hope to the company of odd characters in the play. They work well together. Bryk is intriguing as Pam in all her scenes and Thompson and Lillman keep in character even when that seems like too much of a challenge. Halkitis is great as Donnie, the senior who becomes an insider with the adults and who just may be the most adult of them all. 

        Nick Nealon's lighting is excellent and Brian Starnes uses sound beautifully to keep the play alive; the set design by Mike McDermott and costumes (not credited) both deserve a positive mention.  This is another technical triumph for Harbinger Theatre.