How To Transcend a Happy Marriage Critics’ Reviews
A new play by Sarah Ruhl that explores love, friendship and forgotten wildness.
A new play by Sarah Ruhl that explores love, friendship and forgotten wildness.
At a dinner party in the wilds of New Jersey, two married couples discuss a younger acquaintance—a polyamorous woman who also hunts her own meat. Fascinated, they invite this mysterious woman and her two live-in boyfriends to a New Year’s Eve party, which alters the course of their lives. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage asks: how much love can a twosome contain? What are the limits of friendship, and what happens when parents who have forgotten their own wildness have a wild rumpus all their own?