essay On Longing. Mac loved the book so much that the character of Susan Stewart was added. The Factory Farm that Dirt is trapped in is based on real flower farms. Critical reception Elisabeth Vincentellie of the New York Post said, "It's as if Shakespeare had been reincarnated as a hippie and written a picaresque musical....Some sequences do dilly-dally, and even the wacky internal logic falters by the end, but for the most part this experience is sweet, ramshackle and generous — and unique." Charles Isherwood of the New York Times said, Mitch Montgomery of Backstage.com wrote, Sam Theilman said in a review for Variety that, Awards 2010 - Obie Award References 2009 plays Obie Award-winning plays LGBT-related plays American plays Plays about marriage