THE PLATYPUS ★★★★

Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, until September 13

Francis Greenslade is the hangdog-faced comedic actor familiar from Winners and Losers, as well as every TV show Shaun Micallef has ever made. His dour-yet-sparkling play The Platypus, which he has also directed, exhibits several Micallefian traits: surreally funny, unashamedly erudite, and underneath it all quite cutting and acerbic.

Like the titular egg-laying mammal, it’s something of a paradox – a laugh riot about the slow death of a marriage. Jess (Rebecca Bower) and Richard (John Leary) are a 40-ish Brisbane couple dealing with things most couples deal with: health issues, money worries and an unseen child who’s way too fond of his phone.

They irritate the hell out of each other, and can’t get things together in the

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