The play follows the tragicomic lives of a group of losers who frequent a seedy Bronx bar.

"All of them are 32 years old and they can hear the clock ticking with little to show for their dead end lives of not-so-quiet desperation.

"[2] Savage In Limbo was first produced at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Centre in a staged reading in 1984.

[3] Savage In Limbo was reviewed by the New York Daily News who said, "Conceived with sharp insight into the lives of losers, conveyed with a friskly and often hilarious wit…"[4] The reviewer of a 2011 production at MetroStage, Washington, DC wrote: "Once in a while all of the stars align to create a magical theatre event like MetroStage’s production of John Patrick Shanley’s 'Savage in Limbo'.

The script, the cast, the direction, the performances, and the venue are all so perfectly in tune that the production inspires nothing but praise.