What is the purpose of the play, Sure Thing?

In this play, Ives exposes how identity, including class and gender, is constructed through language, and how this, in turn, creates opportunity. In a very compact fifteen-minute play, it touches on important issues in the philosophy of language: iterability, performance, labeling, and genre. It engages in satire of social conformity and explores the roles of time and chance in the development of relationships.