Bart (Paul Wag­got) is a writer who is mar­ried to Jane, (Acushla-Tara Sut­ton). Jane is an act­ress who is nervous about her job secur­ity and there­fore is keen to cul­tiv­ate a work­ing rela­tion­ship with Wal­lace (Gav­in Ruther­ford) a gos­sip colum­nist. Wal­lace throws a party where Jane and Bart meet Terry (Andrew Pater­son) who can help Bart pub­lish his writ­ing. He knows an illus­trat­or, Sarah (Claire Waldron).  Also at the party are Julie (Car­rie Green), Jane’s best friend, and Daryl (Erroll Ander­son), a young man who is mak­ing decisions about his future.

The tag line for this show is “United by love. Divided by a squir­rel.” That’s pretty much how I feel about it. It _should_ work. The per­formers have great energy. There are enough clev­er lines in the script for it to be enter­tain­ing and it explores themes of fame and celebrity.  Every time the play starts to get inter­est­ing it’s inter­rup­ted by the squir­rel story. There’s a strange hic­cup­ping pace to the script which doesn’t help the dir­ect­or or the act­ors.

Wag­got does his best although his char­ac­ter – who I think is sup­posed to be charm­ing – is a jerk. Sut­ton is more inter­est­ing as her char­ac­ter goes through emo­tion­al changes. Inter­ac­tions between Ruther­ford and Ander­son are my favour­ite part of the show as they pos­ture and pose. Green is delight­ful. Her character’s relent­less naive pos­it­iv­ity about her life is hil­ari­ous. Pater­son doesn’t have quite enough energy in his per­form­ance and Waldron has too much. All in all, a curi­ous mix.