A wonderfully funny and yet also slightly terrifying examination of love, family, and existential dread.

Both a cheeky and sometimes even gut wrenching play about the politics versus the nature of parenting, cohabitating, and love. The stakes are high for all characters - but the world they're painting on stage with their anxieties and potentially even the set feels so outlandish in contrast. The dialogue is so natural you forget you aren't just overhearing the couple in the walk up next to you that always forgets to shut their window. A really lovely read. I hope to see it staged near me!

Dan is a very skilled writer. There are so many powerful themes in this play. I was really struck by the idea of children as a force that binds a couple permanently in a way that marriage or co-habitation doesn't. The hamsters are literally in a cage together, but the thing that traps them is having children. Likewise, eating those children can be something you do out of love or a way to escape that relationship.