-- unidentified government official, 1980

Mary Dickson's new play, Exposed, is a sacrament of grief and anger that doesn't stop at the edge of the stage or end with the actors' bows. Be careful. It gets under the skin and into the marrow, but that's the whole point.

When I saw it this past weekend in Salt Lake City, where its world-premiere run is sold out, the author and some of...