New York Idea

In the glittering parlors of New York's elite at the turn of the century, one question dominates every dinner party and dalliance: how easily can one escape a bad marriage? Langdon Mitchell's sharp and scalpel-like play dissects the divorce epidemic among the wealthy with razor-sharp wit and genuine emotional depth. When a restless wife divorces her husband on a whim, she discovers that the freedom she demanded comes with an unexpected price - watching him move on without her. What follows is a viciously funny reckoning with the consequences of treating marriage as a casual game. Mitchell's characters speak in epigrams that cut to the bone, yet the play possesses a surprising emotional core: genuine anguish beneath the manicured surface. This is social comedy at its most incisive, a portrait of a society that has made divorce into sport, only to find itself tragically surprised when the rules apply to everyone.