SOURCE: A review of Abundance, in Variety, Vol. 335, No. 4, May 10, 1989, p. 120.

In the following negative review, the critic asserts that Abundance “is dragged down by its lack of an idea of where it's going or what it intends to accomplish.”

Story [of Abundance] begins in the Wyoming Territory as two women, fresh off the train, wait to meet their future husbands. They become friends, for lack of other acquaintances, and the play follows them through a somewhat stormy 25-year relationship.

The women end up in very different situations. One marries a man who brutalizes her and turns her life into poverty-ridden despair. The other marries a kindly but timid fellow with money.

As the years go by, it's apparent that the most striking qualities about these four are their weaknesses. One man is a lout, his wife trades innocence for cynicism, the other woman has an affair with...