G. Michael Blahnik

What God Has Joined: a Play in Two Acts G. Michael Blahnik

What God Has Joined is edgy comedy that depicts the evolution of three blood-related marriages in a new and unusual manner. In Couple-1 we have a dominant, acid-tongued wife and the submissive, placid-tongued husband whose passive-aggressiveness serves only to trigger the venom from his wife. In Couple-2 we have an anal-retentive husband who controls his wife through condescending and placating over-concern and an ineffectual wife who grows more depressed over her inability to satisfy her needs. In Couple-3 we have a husband, a born-again Christian and salesman, who dominates his wife through his moral self-righteousness and a wife who fights pitiably against his domination by repressing her anger, submitting, dealing with homicidal thoughts, having an affair, and burying herself in her art. The six characters play multiple roles ranging from Jimmy Steward, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Reverend Ike. These characters and roles are woven seamlessly together as if this is the way life really is. Through their interaction with each other and with the roles they assume, the six central characters evolve, some growing, developing and learning from each other and some...not. Words that might well apply to this play: Funny, caustic, 'hits close to home' , 'most married people can identify, whether they want to or not', multi-leveled and deep in an unusual way.