One character recalls having been so high on drugs that he tried to scrape the stars off Hollywood Boulevard.

One character in his book recalls going to a drive-in movie with his parents and being told not to look at the lurid events onscreen.

One character, Cat, recalls flattening two 6-year old boys when she was 4.

One character, for example, recalls her life of prostitution, then chooses to remember a tender encounter that was the exception to the rule.

Timothy never speaks of his lost twin, but other characters recall the death frequently.

The play is structured so that as events occur on Sept. 30, 1975, the characters recall things that happened 20 years earlier.

The contemporary character of the event recalls the medieval tradition of fun and trade.

Now, who will believe the carefully invented traumas my characters recall?

While Mr. Baitz's characters talk about one another and recall shared episodes from their past, we never see them together.

The figures portray historical characters, contemporary society and rural villagers recalled from the artist's childhood in Japan.