The play premiered Off-Broadway, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club[1] at New York City Center Stage II on January 23, 1990, and closed on February 18, 1990 after 32 performances.
[2] Directed by Evan Yionoulis the cast featured Rebecca Miller (Lili), Tate Donovan (Nick), Beatrice Winde (Olivia), Joan Copeland (Eva) and Eric Stoltz (Gil).
[5][6] The Theatre Royal Bath presented the play from March 7 to April 6, 2013, starring Luke Allen-Gale as Nick, Diana Quick as Eva and Emily Taaffe as Lili.
Michael Billington, in his review of the 2013 Theatre Royal Bath production for The Guardian, wrote: "But what makes the play so compelling is Greenberg's ambivalent view of his characters.
"[8] The New Yorker Magazine reviewer of the 2009 production wrote: "From this somewhat incredible beginning, with its glib exposition that smacks of romantic comedy, Greenberg reverses our narrative expectations and spins a psychologically astute, compelling study of narcissistic delusion—his version of 'The Heiress,' in which the payoff is not revenge but revelation about the stranglehold of symbiosis....The play, however, is about greed of an altogether different kind: financial, psychic, and sexual.