IT JUST STOPPED Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond

A married couple, living on the 47th floor of a tower block, wake one morning to find the computer, the TV, the phone and the lift are not working. They have no electricity and no water. They panic. Australian playwright Stephen Sewell’s allegory about Armageddon is also an anti-American diatribe which rails against the couple’s smug and complacent isolationism. The satire begins wittily enough but quickly deteriorates, leaving the audience completely at a loss as to what is going on.