Loving Longing Leaving

""Fifty Words" has a gimlet eye, providing meticulously chosen, artfully integrated details that let us understand why its characters so love and loathe each other. Like Mr. Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" it understands how closely hate and love can be linked in marriage."--"The New York Times"

In "Fifty Words," a Brooklyn brownstone becomes a marital battleground for Adam and Jan; "What the Night Is For" dramatizes Adam's infidelity at a hotel with former lover Melinda; and in "Side Effects," Melinda and her husband Hugh come to terms with their broken relationship.

Michael Weller has written over forty dramatic works, including the plays "Moonchildren," "Fishing," "Loose Ends," and "Beast," and the screenplays for "Hair" and "Ragtime."