Canby continued to describe the play as "a work of a brilliant and restless imagination."

Ugly might be too generous a word to describe the play in the first half.

Theatre Arts magazine described the play as "one part fantasy, two parts reason."

Cobb later described the play as follows: "Leonard ran to first to take the throw.

"I just faked one way and went back to the ball," Oakley said in describing the play.

Michael, as director, was now the man responsible for describing the play.

The title page of the original edition describes the play as a "comical history."

She described the new play as "about people trying to write happy endings to the stories they live and tell."

(Later a fellow critic used the same words to describe the play.)

Smith described the play by saying, "He hit a ball back up the middle that everybody thought was going into center field.