I saw a regional production several years ago that had the horrible idea of casting men as the two primary female characters. (The less said, the better.) Despite that regrettable choice, I found the play quite funny and engaging on its own terms, especially the material for the maid. The Roundabout cast is strong -- I'm hoping this will be one of their excellent traditional productions of a throwback play like The Constant Wife, Heartbreak House and The Winslow Boy.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
