Directed by Albee, the cast was Rebecca Harris - Girl, David Burtka - Boy, Earle Hyman - Man, and Marian Seldes - Woman.

[12] Matt Wolf, in his review of the 1998 London production for Variety, wrote: "A lot of people are going to be mystified by 'The Play About the Baby,'... but if there’s any justice, at least an equal number will be mesmerized as well.

Witty, cryptic and finally very disturbing, the play is essential (if minor) Albee that shows a major American dramatist — now age 70 — continuing a career of experimentation that has always been very European in its absurdist embrace and subsequent disregard for naturalism.

Whatever its ellipses, the new work is thrillingly served by its Almeida Theater quartet, who find the wrenching emotion in what could be highly self-conscious and arch.

"[13] Charles Isherwood, in his review of the 2001 production for Variety, wrote: "...for all its vaudevillian diversions and seemingly pointless digressions, it’s clear and sharp as a knife, and full of subtle correspondences.