This two-hander displays Jan (Elizabeth Marvel) and husband Adam (Norbert Leo Butz) in their Brooklyn brownstone living room on an evening alone together, the first they’ve had in the nine years since their son Greg was born. Tonight, Greg is away on his very first sleepover. Adam, heartily looking forward to the intimacy with his beloved that this evening will surely provide, has brought a bottle of champagne to enliven the festivities.
Jan instead, however, nervously fusses about Greg. Will he do all right tonight? He’s been indicating some difficulty in school, was found hiding in a closet underneath laundry, has problems making friends, etc. She continues to flutter like a nervous hen although Adam calmly tries to bring her back to the subject—the subject of some private and passionate lovemaking.
The tension becomes more and more apparent as the evening wears on. Playwright Weller appears to have his finger on the pulse of contemporary marriage, one issue being that the two are both career people; they tend to carry their work home with them, an element that often cuts into intimacy.
