SOURCE: Weales, Gerald. “Coming Apart.” Commonweal 119, no. 7 (10 April 1992): 18-19.

In the following review, Weales discusses New York productions of Sarah and Abraham and Edward Albee's Marriage Play, arguing that Sarah and Abraham suffers from a weak script.

Plays by Marsha Norman and Edward Albee, not yet performed in New York, have recently had premieres elsewhere along the Amtrak line—Norman's Sarah and Abraham at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, Albee's Marriage Play at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton. Marriage Play, a co-production with the Alley Theatre in Houston, directed by the author, is the American premiere of a work first performed at Vienna's English Theatre in 1987. It is a long, one-act play in which Jack's announcement that he is leaving Gillian—delivered three times after repeated entrances—is the trigger for a two-character conversation about a marriage that for thirty years has survived infidelity, familiarity, and...