And as a mom who bakes her own scones, she's got the support of everyone else. Instead, Lyssa is positioned as the sacrificial female lamb and we, the audience, are supposed to be outraged that her professional competency is allowed to take a backseat to questions of her feminine allegiance. The real outrage, though, is that Wasserstein, hailed as a feminist playwright, bases her plays on preppy female characters that cling to men and swoon over babies, with little critique of them. Ironically, in a play with so many self-absorbed characters, these actors never manage to move beyond their own jittery performances to create rapport with the others on stage. George S. Kaufman Artistic partnering can work two ways.
Egos get tossed out the window, artists learn from one another and good things happen.
Back in the '30s Pittsburgh native George S. Kaufman collaborated like no other, pairing with famed writers such as Edna Ferber, Alexander Woollcott and Ring Lardner. Kaufman was moody and eccentric, but playwrights loved working with him, mostly because he gave them large amounts of creative freedom. His partner for ten years was Moss Hart . Kaufman paced the floor, brooding and barefoot. If he picked up a piece of lint, Hard would race to the typewriter, ready to record the eruption of a good line.