Much of Christopher Durang's theatrical output for the New York stage has been designed to puncture stupidity with disrespect and zany humour. The latest of his works to be seen in Dublin is staged by Spike Productions and seems to be about the sort of nonsense made manifest on down-market television talk shows by people who are psychologically inadequate. Here is all the angst, all the hysteria and all the naivety of quintessential New Yorkers crazy enough to expose their personal inadequacies on air. For The Woman (Charity Carter) who wants to talk about life, it is all about the battle to buy a can of tuna, to hail a cab successfully, to keep her innate violence under control and to stay out of the mental home. For The Man (Alan Kinsella) it is all about harmonic convergence, as well as about examining cans of tuna and being struck down by a crazy woman at the tuna counter in the supermarket.

Under Keith Willis's direction, it is easy for neither the actors nor their audience. The man is an Irish expatriate which, given this man's behaviour, is simply impossible, and he and the woman (who has her own scripted contradictions within her) are left for far too much of the time to stand around the stage talking nonsense. Both have difficulty at times simply enunciating Durang's purposefully zany words and everyone has problems suspending disbelief in the author's akward construction. New York madness this show ain't.

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