Rundle began by comparing Sweet Phoebe with other works by playwright Gow.
Rundle mentions Furious and Away .
A significant portion of the play establishes the nature of their life together - it is insular and somewhat superficial, played out in a large, affluent modern home. They seem to have a vigorous sex life, conducted along what the play suggests is an often repeated pattern. She undoes his tie. He makes a creepy hand movement towards her breast - and off they go. This excluded world includes emotional conflict.