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Critic Frank Rich wrote: "... this play can be taken as an indirect treatment of the same subject.

The epidemic is to Mr. Lucas what Babi Yar was to D. M. Thomas, and Peter's fidelity to his true love's soul, even as that soul is trapped in a dying male body, is a transparent metaphor.

" Critic James Hebert wrote: " When it premiered in 1990 it was widely presumed to be an oblique response to the ravages of AIDS.

Long removed from that time, it becomes a broader commentary on eternal topics like the limits of love and the meaning of commitment.