Rebecca Cook
InPress
7 April 2004

Everyday Jo(e)s, Nathan and Sarah, are desperate, but not exactly dateless. In fact, they’ve got a plethora of dates to choose from since they joined an Internet dating website – ‘choose’ being the operative word. Within a simple café setting, we watch them go from online dating virgins to hardened pros. Individually, they meet the control freaks, stalkers, manic depressives and sleazes who are also trawling the ‘net for that certain someone. They’ve both drunk so much coffee for so little sex, will they ever meet ‘the one’?

Written by Steve Wheat, who as subtly as a grown man in an Easter Bunny costume includes his own profile for any 32 to 40 year old women GSOH who might like to send him an email after the show, The Write One Dot Com is a simple play which garnered some big laughs from the packed house on Sunday afternoon. While a simple plot allows us to vicariously suffer the joys of meeting people who don’t look like their picture or meet their profile, the alternating between the two tables became a little monotonous and ultimately there was nowhere for the plot to go bar the path most predictably travelled.

Even though my single mate who came along to the show has been thoroughly turned off the idea of Internet dating (there’s one less in the pool, Steve), I was suitably chuffed with the show and might log-on to the next Grainfed Theatre performance. LOL!