Theatre Company: Griffin Independent
Writers: Vanessa Bates
Director: Shannon Murphy
Cast: Josef Ber, Glenn Hazeldine, Olivia Pigeot and Georgina Symes
Location: SBW Stables Theatre (Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia)

Synopsis (from the flyer):

Ant & Annie are a couple. So are Bill and Bella. Both are frighteningly close to middle age.
As each couple sits down to some cake, nothing is said but everything is meant. For this is love done in the contemporary way: conversations punctuated with text messaging, pleasures punctuated by food intolerances and happiness punctuated with rage. Cake’s not the only thing you could cut a knife through.
A deliciously funny exploration of love and sex in the modern world by one of the country’s most daring and witty playwrights.

My Thoughts:

I was warned … the flyer said “nothing is said” and for the majority of the play that is absolutely true.
For the majority of the play there were words, but there were not very many of them and they were disjointed and not at all satisfying. And, during those times I was not only left wondering exactly what was “meant” but why I was there.
However, between those bewildering scenes there were individual dialogues from each individual character which I found much more compelling. I especially enjoyed Ant’s description of his desperate need to feel loved, which was not being met in his marriage and resulted in a passionate kiss in the middle of the supermarket. And Annie did a great job of making me despise her vacuous, arrogant, self-obsessed self during her dialogue.
And those small glimpses into two souls made the night worthwhile for me.