THE STORY: Elliot has been dating Joanna for the last six weeks when the curtain rises on his brilliant monologue which in a nutshell captures sex and love in the '90s. Elliot describes that gap between the sexes with shape and substance—the gap that people talk over, go to movies over, drink, go to parties and make love over. That gap is revealed when Elliot brings Joanna to meet his friends. Joanna, not quite ready for this, bolts in front of the elevator that is to take them to this dinner party. The party, dampened, happens anyway and in the course of it, much is revealed about the relationships of these four life-long friends. In the middle of all of this, Joanna arrives and causes a sensation much to Elliot’s displeasure. The final scene in the play is a reconciliation in which Joanna and Elliot move across the “gap” to tentatively touch each other with honesty—and with love.
An ironic, witty, and even melancholy examination of the “gap” between the sexes—a gap sometimes filled with love; often times not.
“…I promise you, you will laugh, and laugh…Feiffer is beautiful when he is worming out the lies and deception we tell ourselves…it provokes thought and reaction deeper than its laughter.” —New York Post.
“Feiffer has written some blood-drawing one-liners, and with the skill of a trained assassin, fires off some trenchant observations about men and women in love.” —TheaterWeek.
“A stinging satirical insight into what prevents upscale men and women from enjoying meaningful and lasting relationships together in today’s cities. Feiffer continuously goes for the jugular with his quickly paced zingers attacking sex, fidelity, aging, children and many other facets of relationships…The result is a play with many laughs…” —The Hollywood Reporter.
