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I've enjoyed two productions of this play -- one at Factory Theatre in Toronto, and the other just this past weekend, at the Wilma. I am a great fan of the playwright's, and am especially fascinated with this piece. It is full of delightful contradictions, while the real/unreal world that has been created in the play is a contradiction unto itself. Although we now have the "la dee da vote", women in 2007 still struggle with the same push/pull between being paired and unpaired and the subsequent rewards and sacrifices each choice entails. Griffiths injects the play with the eternally hand-wringing struggles women have with money, beauty, motherhood, sexuality, aging, marriage - like little fragments of coloured glass in a kaleidoscope, she masterfully shines light and mirrors on them this way and that, so we have the luxury of viewing them from all angles and, entranced, catch a glimpse of ourselves in the patterns.