Produced by Circle Repertory Off Broadway in 1990, the play concerns a meeting between two women who talk about their husbands, one physically abusive, the other physically impaired.

At Circle Repertory, 99 Seventh Avenue South, at West Fourth Street.

In its present form it was given a special subscriber's performance recently at Circle Repertory, where it is on the schedule for the coming season.

Lanford Wilson's work has most often been directed by Circle Repertory's co-founder and former artistic director, Marshall Mason.

The process began when Circle Repertory presented Albert Innaurato's black comedy "Gemini" in 1977.

New York critics were not invited to the Circle Repertory run because of plans to open "Burn This" on Broadway.

Two years later, Boyle played the head of a dysfunctional family in Joe Pintauro's less well-received Snow Orchid, at the Circle Repertory.

Presented by Circle Repertory.

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Since then, the play, by Charles Evered, has been produced in several regional theaters as well as Off Broadway at the Circle Repertory, now also a memory.