The play premiered in San Francisco in 1990, and had its Off-Broadway debut in 1995; a feature film adaptation was released in 1997.
He is received by his mother, younger brother Anthony, and twin sister "Jackie-O", who adopted her nickname and manner of dress as a result of her obsession with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
The news of Marty's sudden relationship and engagement shocks the family and destabilizes Jackie-O, who has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital.
"[5] In his review of the 1995 off-Broadway production of The House of Yes for The New York Times, Ben Brantley called the play "pretty familiar stuff, although deftly executed," noting that the plot is "so predetermined that it lacks urgency and menace.
The film stars Parker Posey as Jackie-O, Geneviève Bujold as Mrs. Pascal, Freddie Prinze Jr. as Anthony, Josh Hamilton as Marty, and Tori Spelling as Lesly.