←Recommendations of Man & Wife, a neuro-queer oddity

Astonishing. The cookie-cutter wedding toppers and board game of "Life" never really is. Behind the family Christmas card or the 'photo-in-the frame' placeholder, are the real human beings and relationships of complexity what is often muted to not disturb the paradigm. Powerful and dynamic, this play holds so much life. Yet it's so richly comical and a sheer delight, I can't express how much I enjoyed this play. Yes, yes and yes!

A master class in writing something that absolutely has to be on stage and not on screen. Highly theatrical, comic, and full of commentary that will leave you laughing, empathizing, and maybe a little disturbed.

What an amazing play. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it for the powerful plot, and the sharp and satirical dialogue. But this lively two hander is just so much more than a play about a married couple as they move through life. Sure this play is about love, but it's also about politics, including gender dysphoria, climate change, abortion—you name it, this playwright has found a way to make it part of the story of this couple's journey together. A play for two actors that encompasses the world. Well done, Emma Goldman-Sherman!

So much life packed into one play. We follow this couple as they work through twenty-five years of marriage, as the world moves around them and life hands them unexpected problems. They hold on, they slip, they fall, they get back up again — in a hilariously human way. Would love to see this on stage.

Wildly inventive and relevant in both obvious as well as unsuspecting ways. While foregrounding the outrageous yet deceptively endearing trials of Rob and Missy's relationship, the play manages to probe something much deeper in our society: the unprecedented disjointing of the actual self from the presented one. A phenomena nurtured by emoji culture, whose consequences can be felt in misleading poll figures and our general weariness of one another. The play doesn't concede to defeat, however; in fact, through its dynamism of language and action, the audience is expected to respond critically and creatively to find its own way forward.

This fascinating, complex, and multilayered play takes us through the tumultuous marriage of a man and a woman during a particularly devastating presidency. The central couple, Rob and Missy, spend the whole play trying to sustain their marriage, their children, and each other through troublesome times. The play is wildly theatrical and very funny, with dialogue that is both sincere and sardonic. It also asks tough questions about marriage, politics, gender identity, and how we relate to each other from different sides of the political spectrum. A rich and enjoyable play!

Hold on to your hats, it's going to be a bumpy life. And it is. Goldman-Sherman explores role-playing, gender-identity, Trumpism, climate change and even ye olde yearly Merry Christmas card with candor and warmth. Written with a deft ear (and eye) for character nuances, Sherman lays bare a marriage that is the poster child for our times. Her couple radiates their humanity in all its foibles. Sometimes you're nodding your head and then suddenly - you want to clobber them. The two roles are multi-layered and a gift to the actors. It's one crazy, funhouse ride.

This play is an absolute marvel. I was hooked from the first page on. Timely, wise, heart-breaking, funny, sharp while never removing her tongue from her cheek, Goldman-Sherman has created a magnificent play that transcends theatre--this play is art. It is art for our time. It is a clear reflection of what is like to live in this day and age--and what this day may lead to in our not-so-distant future. Ron and Missy are both completely believable and completely unbelievable, much like the world that we live in. My gut is wrenched with laughter and misery.

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.