This 100 minute intrusion into the lives of two couples sharing a small flat to save money was extremely well acted but, for me, lacked particularly novel messages. The two females are old college friends and this friendship is pretty well destroyed by the tensions of living in close proximity to each other together with their boyfriends. (Maybe the novel message is that tensions increase once people are in couples but I don't think that's accurate.) One couple has a lucky inheritance and are anyway, financially, a bit more successful than the other. The jealousies this provokes are well illustrated as is the descent into irritation by trivia - you've left the clothes horse on our bed. The play also underlines the genuine difficulties faced by 20/30 borderliners in getting on the housing ladder in London. But that is scarcely a revelation.
The staging was excellent and between scenes there were well-choreographed routines that the couples executed to mark the change and the alteration in the relationship.
Overall, I wouldn't think of this as a must see but it made for an entertaining and engaging evening which had me feeling I was almost intruding on their private grief.
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