Spacey's cast, which includes Stephen Tompkinson and Neil Pearson, is good at conveying deceit and delusion but Spacey's production has the glossy realism of a sitcom. In places, it is also laboured where it needs to be pacey. Goos's script is not funny enough to serve its overall jocular tone, nor astute enough to differentiate her play from other portraits of midlife crises. Spacey surely has his reasons for kicking off with a play that has the cosy anonymity of a putative commercial hit but here's hoping he has more exciting cards up his sleeve.
