It’s taken since 1977 for actor Saul Rubinek to turn his germ of an idea into a play and the result – an adroit mix of the laugh-out-loud funny and the touchingly poignant – shows the maturity which comes with middle-age.
Unfortunately it’s a trait which has bypassed Scott Bakula’s womanising Jake. That doesn’t stop Andy Nyman’s tubby, neurotic teacher Stinky from following his old college buddy’s self-interested advice and ditching the girlfriend who can’t have kids.
And (even knowing her comfortable bank balance constitutes a large part of her allure) Caroline Quentin’s self-sufficient widowed Hedda is more than happy to share her home and her bed with the emotionally adolescent Jake in Frank Oz’s sitcom style production.
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