“Wit makes fun of other persons,” mused James Thurber, American author and cartoonist. “The satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people…not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.”
Looking around at some of the failed relationships around him and wondering what it was all about, Wasaam Ismail pondered, “What if someone were to write a play about this?” And that is what he did.“It is such a common situation,” he muses, “referring to the central focus of his first original script. “Yet I have not seen this sort of conflict represented much in drama.”