Elliot is a bachelor in his late thirties whose new girlfriend, Joanna,
is everything he ever wanted in a woman--intelligent, beautiful, warm,
independent--and yet terrifies him for precisely that reason. A
twice-divorced real estate broker who likes order in her life, she is
equally scared of the precariousness of having someone matter to her.
Their uncertainties come to a head when Elliot takes her to a party to
meet 'the guys'--Bobby, who works for Playboy; Phil, a recovering
alcoholic; and Larry, who 'is not comfortable with a woman outside the
confines of a divorce court.' The encounter becomes an initiation
ceremony crackling with witty, barbed, and devastating dialogue that
strips the two lovers of all pretensions, forcing them to confront each
other anew in a painful awareness of their vulnerability. The result is
a bitterly funny play about the ambiguities of being in love, with Jules
Feiffer at his most incisive, wise, and wickedly honest.