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‘Time Stands Still’ records toll of war

Back home, correspondents face challenges

By Don Aucoin

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 23, 2012

That urgent need to bear witness, and the toll it can exact, lie at the heart of Donald Margulies “Time Stands Still,’’ now at the Lyric Stage Company under the subtle and probing direction of Scott Edmiston. Margulies’ deceptively small-scale drama explores the fissures that open within the relationship between two journalists as they settle back in at their Brooklyn loft after covering the Iraq war and try to cope with the wounds they sustained - some visible, some not.

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