SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney
May 10, 2018

Good Cook. Friendly. Clean. by Brooke Robinson opens with two young people – A (Kelly Paterniti) and B (Fayssal Bazzi) – trying to work out the best way to tell their housemate that they need her to leave. While they are still arguing the toss, she arrives home with food for dinner.

Fayssal Bazzi, Kelly Paterniti and Tara Morice. Photograph © Brett Boardman

Sandra (Tara Morice) is in her 50s and clearly has some medical condition. Initially she is totally shocked and tries to ignore what they are saying but the message is clear. She may have lived there for four years but she has two weeks to get out as a friend of theirs is arriving in Sydney and needs to move in.

For the next eight scenes we watch an increasingly desperate Sandra visit various places trying to find somewhere to rent. But in each case, apart from one kindly soul, you can tell that they pretty much take one look at her and decide she’s too old, too serious, or too whatever, and not what they’re looking for. With a small costume change, Paterniti and Bazzi play...