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.