 You know, that would solve everything. A great friendship on stage is one that can easily be shown having lots of problems. And that might not be what we would say would be a great friendship off the stage. There's a certain contradiction there. Great friendships on stage are those that are either just like we have or just like we have, but they go wrong. Who are the great buddies in the theater? Cecily and Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.