On why He and She is, and will henceforth be, a poor choice of show.
By: Ian James Anthony

Alright, time to roll up my sleeves.

He and She has nothing to say to a modern audience. Zip. Nada. Nothing at all. I mean, I suppose if you make a lot of excuses for it, you can sort of make it be about modern problems with gender and parenting, but at that point you're cramming the round peg into a firmly square hole. The male characters are all, without exception, massive misogynists. The prevailing sentiment they express can be summed up as such: "Women shouldn't be working in an office when they get married. Their place is making a house into a home, and to be there when the man, the provider, comes back from a hard day of work." The problem is, no one is going to agree with them. In 1911, when this play was first produced, then, yeah, you can bet it probably sparked some debate between men and women. But now, in 2010, the male leads are just wrong. Men and women will agree on this, and in doing so undermine everything the play was working towards. Discussion isn't so much drummed up as agreement that male and female relations in 1911 blew ass.

Blug. I'm drunk. More later.