Fringelog 2009: Never Trust A Naked Marriage Counselor ***
This play tells the story of a couple who’s relationship falls apart because of a case of mistaken identity. One member of the couple is actually a marriage counselor who through a fairly twisted turn of circumstances ends up being selected as the sex counselor for the husband and his rebound girlfriend.
If that sounds complicated and you don’t get what I mean, that’s because it is and it’s hard to explain. This isn’t a negative, though. In premise, it’s very much a modern version of A Midsummer’s Night Dream where the Gods have been replaced by psychologists (which is itself an interesting notion). Trust me that how they get there is not really relevant to how funny it is once they do.
But at the same time, this is another play that’s almost 1.5 hours and I came out of it not really sure why. It had a fair amount of laughs and really fun plot twists, but it might have had too many characters and too much going on. It would have been improved with a bit more focus and more laughs per minute. At times I found my mind wandering as the non-funny parts of the zaniness went on to set up the next funny part.