Tony Laumberg’s new play ‘The Great Divide’ was good, light entertainment.

The great divide was between a WASP couple and a Greek couple fighting over their own territories in St Ives. As soon as the Greek couple move in to the neighbourhood a merciless antagonism takes place. The Greek couple, Archimedes and Athena want to pull down the neighbourhood fence and put up a huge brick wall.

The plays’ strengths lay in the playwright’s considerable wit, and well defined performances. The actors all had their characters down pat…..Mark McCann as the uptight North Shore-ite solicitor WASP. Tricia Youlden impressed as his very drunk, awesomely flirtatious wife, Margaret, Manny Katz was good as the obsessive State Rail worker, Archimedes Christi, obsessed with timetable information, and Tula Tzoras she his devoted, assertive wife Athena. Peter Demlakian rounded out the cast as the set upon Greeh magistrate, Mr Poulos.

The sound design was good with suitable Greek instrumental music. Tony Youlden’s set design was basic but did the trick. Richard Cotter’s direction kept the action moving rapidly.

I will remember ‘The Great Divide’ for the playwrights’ quirky way of incorporating a game of Twister to finally resolve the neighbourhood dispute.