Walker's collisions of the everyday, the sordid and the bizarre make for a peculiar farce. The play is not, like classic farce, about retribution. With Walker, a sweetly loving protagonist devoid of all wiles keeps accumulating mental and physical injuries. So it goes for the guileless Junior. Voltaire's Candide is a wealthy twit whose teacher tells him that they are living in the best of all possible worlds.
Events prove otherwise.
Walker's Junior is an impoverished innocent whose father tells him that he is doomed. Director James Marsters gives the show a bounciness that accords well with his characters' determined resilience. Earnestness is undone by incompetence. Hopeful moods founder on ludicrous actions. The wonder is that Walker's play can actually provoke two out-loud laughs.