"I don't write a lot of plays that take place in living rooms," McNally said, perhaps in reference to his Love! Valour! Compassion!, which had outdoor guys taking off their clothes. "Some say Katharine is the villain of the play. I don't see her that way at all. She's tragic. By the end, there's a slight crack in her facade. There are people who are stuck in the past with a rigid idea of what is right. Her tragedy is that she's on the wrong side of history. But there's a crack in her facade by the end."