Where was Dorothy Parker in her life when she wrote the play?
Her life was pretty much over in Hollywood. She had just remarried Alan Campbell, her second husband. Shed gone out there, remarried him, the marriage lasted about a week (laughs). She stayed for a while, but there was no reason to stay. She came back to New York; this was about 1952. She didnt know what she wanted to do. She was glad to be home again. She had met Arnaud dUsseau in California. She had known Arnaud dUsseau and his wife, Susan, out in L.A. They were all Communists. Susan dUsseau owned a bookstore called Book of the Day, which was a radical left-wing bookstore. All these people moved in the same circle, they were all fellow travelers or party members. When she came back to New York, the dUsseaus were living here, as were a lot of other people she knew. People who were already being blacklisted and feeling the heat in their professions. She started hanging out with them. She liked younger men and dUsseau was certainly one of them. How do you think they hit on this subject
