This smart production, which begins with a fight at Ikea, will keep you on your toes
Verbal arguments between couples have been a mainstay of theatrical drama for eons. After all, who better to get snarly over sensitive topics with than someone who knows your weaknesses, your verbal gamesmanship tricks, and your tolerance for psychic pain.
When Macmillan wrote this funny and insightful piece almost 15 years ago, he was clearly worried about climate change and how it might affect personal relationships. Good thing he wrote it when he did, because if he had waited till now—what with worldwide cataclysmic fires, floods and earthquakes dominating the news—he might have just decided to write about puppies and whether they're cuter than kittens.
The woman is played by Katie Simón Atkinson with superb attention to the details of W's quicksilver peeves, fears and downright terrors. Stopping and starting herself in her many solo diatribes, Atkinson sketches a loose-limbed, staccato image of a young woman tortured by her dual needs to procreate and her responsibility as a citizen of the world.
The struggle at hand, as serious as it is, is often punctuated by laughter as the playwright employs his pointed wit to lighten the mood or pierce a pretension when one arises. Everything seems to happen quickly, even the sex scenes fly past with just a sigh, a smile and the wipe of a brow.
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