When Marie decides to leave Bruce, she delivers herself of a torrent of
ferocious humor and foul-mouthed vituperation concerning him and their
marriage, not to mention love, hate, caring, commitment, and all the
other current clichés about relationships. As he follows Marie and Bruce
through breakfast, a friend's party, and dinner, Wallace Shawn
brilliantly orchestrates her savage attacks and his slyly passive
defenses into a symphony of subversive propositions about the nature of
the marital state.