"Recently, we saw Art, a play whose premise centers on three sophisticated, middle-aged friends who descend hell-ward in a bitter fight that tears the otherwise resilient fabric of their friendship. The trio's scorching verbal combat ignites when one of them acquires a "work of art" consisting of a contentless, blank-white canvas, which he purchased for the profligate sum of 300,000 dollars!"
"As the three waged war over what constitutes art, we, the audience, in stark contrast, laughed uproariously at the go-nowhere folly of their torrential fighting. Soon, emotionally spent and spun out in a wasteland of irresolution, the three combatants finally lay down their arms as the play resolves in an awkward but peace-restoring truce that tacitly acknowledges the priority of their friendship over the futility of fighting over who is right or wrong. When the performance ended, we shot to our feet."
A couple spends one week each year in New York, staying near Carnegie Hall and two blocks from Central Park at the Manhattan Club. The couple regularly attends multiple Broadway plays, sometimes two in one day. They saw Art, a play about three middle-aged friends whose argument over a blank-white canvas purchased for $300,000 escalates into fierce verbal combat. The friends eventually reach an awkward truce that privileges friendship over being right. The audience laughed at the absurdity of the fight, prompting a parallel to the ludicrous, mindless fighting often observed in couples therapy.
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