This foray into the intimate, awkward friendship between Chantry, who's attached, and Wallace, who wants to be her new boyfriend, is as melancholically delicate as it is hilarious. Chantry and Wallace become close by sharing their eccentricities: their interest in Elvis Presley's bizarre eating habits, for instance, and the number of pounds of undigested food and fecal matter coroners found in his corpse. Writers TJ Dawe and Michael Rinaldi, who plays Wallace, get off some great lines. When Chantry says that she got mono although she hadn't been kissing anybody at the time, Wallace replies: "Maybe you got it from a salt lick." The characters' playful weirdness and ths script's associative structure combine in a celebration of life's pinwheeling possibilities for delight. Tallulah Winkelman's Chantry is boisterously hip, the perfect counterpoint for Rinaldi's slyly understated Wallace.
Colin Thomas
Georgia Straight
