Something's gone very wrong behind the idyllic façade of Jan and Adam's Brooklyn brownstone. Fifty Words is an expansive look at modern marriage, as seen through the looking glass of one couple's long night's journey into day.
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Bruises and Battle Scars
By BEN BRANTLEY
Published: October 2, 2008
"One of the more terrifying privileges of marriage is the unparalleled power it lends its participants to wound, maim and annihilate, through the grim weapon of knowing exactly where the other half hurts. Adam and Jan — the middle-class husband and wife “going through a bad patch” in “Fifty Words,” Michael Weller’s bruising domestic drama, which opened Wednesday night at the Lucille Lortel Theater — appreciate the responsibilities of such knowledge."
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