Rob Salerno’s script follows the effect on two lifelong friends, Paul (Salerno) and Bastian (Adam Goldhamer), when Paul is diagnosed with testicular cancer at age 19. Salerno the playwright mitigates the disease-of-the-week movie feel with heavy, healthy doses of blue humour. When Bastian, too, gets the same rare cancer (1 per cent of all cancers), the story becomes improbable. Often Salerno’s urge to educate us about the cancer and the Kübler-Ross grief cycle trumps a more detailed examination of how the friends react to the changes in themselves and each other. The production’s real strength lies in the natural, ultimately affecting performances of both actors.

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