Lucinda Coxon's new play dwells on the discontentments of Kitty (Olivia Williams) and those who surround her.
The concerns are all very "Noughties": the relationships are shaky, they all work too much, Kitty's father is ill and she can't keep up with her kids. Bread-and-butter issues, then, for the wine-and-Kettle Chips generation. Kitty's problems start when a work colleague (Stanley Townsend), while making a pass at her, tells her some genial home truths; as Townsend proves, you can apparently get away with anything with a whisky in one hand and a roguish Irish accent. All then unravels before being neatly, and inevitably, tied up at the end. Tellingly, one joke centres on the couples' watching the sitcom Will & Grace; and, throughout, Coxon expertly manipulates the play's kinship to sitcom with sharp set scenes (all of them excellently acted). Sometimes, in the characterisation and the themes, one yearns for something more; but then, as Kitty so surprisingly finds, we must find happiness in what we have.
Cottesloe, National