Carolyn Duffin couldn’t have anticipated the hack of cheating website Ashley Madison, but that recent imbroglio makes quite the punchline to her new play. It’s essentially a morality tale about why infidelity is very, very bad – and how women can be very, very devious. Jamie (George Drever) and Shona (Duffin) meet at a hotel. She says it’s her first foray into anonymous sex. It’s his seventeenth. What follows is trite conversation about marital and personal discontent and – for a show that says it’s “intended for adult viewing” – nothing particularly sexy. But what’s the moral here? Men are dumb horndogs? Women should harness their feminine wiles to rat them out? Whatever its intent, ‘No Strings’ leaves a sour taste.

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, until 29 Aug.
tw rating 1/5 | [Rebecca Jacobson]