←Recommendations of Man & Wife

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.

Saw this play in The Sandbox at New Circle Theater Company last month. It was the inaugural production and wow, the bar was set high for all us other playwrights and directors. Tremendously funny, yet at times heartfelt emotion shocked you to tears. Fluid, fun, and inventive, any creative team would have an explosion of ideas in the staging. Yet, at its core is a simple family trying to live a life in the pursuit of their own happiness.

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!

Man And Wife is a brisk two-hander about marriage, couples, men who never change, and women who want to grow, in which modern fears become future realities, the ones you love turn into enemies and then become annoying allies, children complete you and grow up to defeat you, and your mom and dad are always there to remind you that you'll never live up to your own potential, never mind your parents' expectations. It's a smart no-nonsense look at the nonsense that is marriage. Plus it's funny as hell and just as full of the devil..

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)