←Recommendations of Man & Wife

Oh my goodness -- hold onto your hat! This comic romp follows a couple through marriage in a ride that's sexy, crazy, wild and side-splitting. Underneath is a solid platform of truth about marriage and raising children. Never a dull moment.

Equal parts tragedy, horror, and gut-busting comedy, MAN & WIFE paints for us a bone-chilling universal future that made me want to scream; at the same time, it dives deep below the skin of a single married couple to explore the deceptions, vulnerability, and struggle to do right that exists in all loving commitments between two people. Being involved in a production of this play, in any capacity, would be such a blast: great creative challenges for a large team with a grand vision, and plenty of options for a scaled-down production.

A dark comedy on straight marriage in the Age of Trumpism. Necessary theatre because it captures so perfectly partisan tension between many married straight couples today. An allegory for that ideological divide in the United States. A rollicking theatricalization of marriage, its rites and rituals, like raising children and answering to the previous generation's expectations. With Man & Wife's domestic life as a series of performances before an unseen fourth-wall camera, this experiemental two-hander plays with the structure of theatre and marriage, while dealing with gender identity and truth relativism post-2016 election. Highly recommended for reading and production. Bravo!

Wonderful 2-hander! Very funny, very real issues, very real emotions. Great for small theatre companies because it would be easy to produce and provide a full evening of enjoyment and discussion.

MAN & WIFE is hysterically funny, incisively smart, and many-layered. It is also structured to my strict standards. The characters are multi-dimensional, quirky, and very real. We root for first one, then the other. We care about them, sitting on the edges of our seats so we don't miss what comes next. I can count the number of excellent, two-actor, full-length plays on one hand. This is one of them. (My husband, who rarely chuckles out loud at anything, was laughing audibly throughout.) - Robin Rice (playwright, audience member)