What an interesting question. I suppose my natural mode is comic, rather than tragic. It means we can take something that is given to us and turn it into something else. These women do that. So I think it has more comic potential than tragic.
People do recover from broken hearts and broken marriages.
I've always been surprised to see friends of mine that I considered totally heartbroken revive fairly rapidly and go into new relationships. Your earlier novel, The Republic of Love , also deals with couples and the need not to be alone. In this play you talk about the humiliations, especially for women, who are alone. I remember the first time I ever went to a movie by myself. I was worried about this, but it was a film I'd wanted to see that Sunday afternoon.