This comedy of delirious miscommunication is great fun. Tom and Jerry blithely sail along, each certain that they are having the same conversation when that could not be further from the truth. I have to wonder what their conversation will be like once their new hearing aids are in.

It takes a relentlessly smary playwright to write something this relentlessly silly! It might take audiences a minute to pick up on what's going on, but once they do, it's an engaging tennis match as they translate both sides of the conversation. You'd expect this little scene to end in a flaming car wreck, but no - there is so much unspoken love and trust in this relationship that it works itself out, leaving the audience with faith that future conversations will go much better! What a hoot!

Add a hearing deficit to the distractions of a crossword puzzle and a beached whale and... well, this happens. The rehearsal process for this piece will be a blast as everyone figures out what Tom and Jerry each thought they heard. The couple has a wonderful lived-in feel – we know them for three pages but they've known each other forever. Through fragments of misunderstood dialogue, Williams provides pointillism of a life well-loved. And some of the misshearings are truly wince-worthy. A joy!