WA actor and playwright Will O’Mahony’s Tonsils + Tweezers had its Sydney premiere in 2018 in a Kings Cross Theatre production. It’s heartening to see it join that small cohort of independently produced Australian plays to get a second run in this city – this time in the late-night slot at the Old Fitzroy.

“Tonsils” and “Tweezers” are the nicknames bestowed on a tightly bonded pair of high-square pegs whose relationship has endured long after graduation. One of their strongest bonds lies in the fact that they were both victims of the so-called “fountain gang”, who lorded it over the schoolyard bubbler.

Ariyan Sharma and Victor Y Z Xu: Tonsils + Tweezers. Photo © Nicholas Warrand

Now that a 10-year high school reunion looms, Tweezers’ agitation is building. An encounter with one of his old tormentors, Max – now working for McDonald’s as a building site scout – does little to mollify him. He has a plan, he tells Tonsils, one that will make the reunion truly and terribly memorable.

O’Mahony’s (somewhat overused) central metaphor is that of the binary star: the...