The question of “what have I gotten myself into” on a third date works on multiple levels here, from the “let’s get to work” objective that Colleen proposes with her savage lobster dinner to Ludlow’s blind dive into meeting his date’s young son. Will it be like workers facing mosquitoes at the Panama Canal or like the poor lobster facing an unfortunate scalding end? The dialogue is sensationally humorous, giving us much to think about regarding what we plunge into for the sake of potential romantic attachments.

It's a testament to Charles Scott Jones' writing that even as he gives us a wonderful ending, you want him to continue this date he's invited us to. And it's a date fraught with more than usual trepidation. This is the date where a woman is going to introduce her new beau to her child. So the stakes are higher but, if the intro goes well, the rewards are too. The dialogue hums along and even the odd juxtaposition of the pleasure of the dinner companions over the pain of the dinner participants makes this a terrific meal to witness.

Parents can be so protective of their children and those who have become single even more so. The introduction of that child to a potential new boyfriend or girlfriend must be one of the scariest moments to think of how this child will react with someone new. The dialogue of this play is so well written and the characters so completely fleshed out that you will feel as if you've just dropped in for a lobster dinner at the neighbor's house down the street.