[1] His first full length,[1] it debuted on Broadway, starring Shirley Knight and William Devane[1] Michael Langham, the initial director of the play, and future director at Juilliard, came to its producer Eugene Persson, and begged him to let him direct it.
"Langham is known to be choosy and usually Producers hunt him down" an article in New York Magazine said at the time.
"....there were a lot of problems" Kessler said in an interview in 1990, "We'd had a change of directors, some of the casting wasn't right.
Kessler, who went on to write Orphans, won a Rockefeller Foundation grant for The Watering Place.
[5] The play has had segments published in a number of anthologies including Best Plays of 1969-1970 and Monologues--women: 50 speeches from the contemporary theatre, Volume 1[6] and memorabilia from the Broadway production are sold on eBay as collectors items.