Mostly, Partnersis a fun, upbeat, gay-themed comedy about two couples, Clare (Annie Purcell) and her husband Paul (David Ross) entertaining Ezra (Kasey Mahaffy) and Brady (LeRoy McLain). Clare loves to cook and entertain. Ezra wants to partner with her to launch a food truck and make money. What a great idea. Until Clare proves to be an uber-conflicted, self destructive, nutjob who brings down herself and everyone around her. Mostly, in some improbable plot twists, she is never up front about her feelings, phobias, paranoia and misgivings.
What starts as a witty, upbeat, often hilarious comedy gets terribly dark and spins out of control to an improbable, crash-and-burn conclusion. Perhaps with triage, this will have another production so we will spare you the details. But it entails conflating such improbable elements as a radish up the nose resulting in a concussion, huge hospital bills for the uninsured Ezra, and a windfall class-action settlement which is squandered on an unlikely charity. Resulting is a heap of broken lives and shattered dreams. Or something like that. I laughed through the first half of the play and then gasped aghast through the rest.
