WASP had its New York premiere at the Joseph Papp Theatre in 1995, alongside Steve Martin’s other one-acts, Patter for the Floating Lady, Guillotine, and The ZIg-Zag Woman. Critics largely disliked the absurdist production, seeing it as self-indulgent and nonsensical. However, some reviewers did find Martin’s satiric exposé of 1950s middle America as clever; F. Kathleen Foley of the L.A. Times wrote of a 2002 production: “Deft and incongruous, the play yields plenty of laughter but has a serious point to make about the dark side of the American family. If the characters chatter circuitously,
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