Declan Collins (Hamlin) and Mark Melton (Hugo) give A Perfect Map of Everything good energy. They do everything they are asked to do and do it well. Mrs. Galloway and Mr. McGully, competently acted by Claire Wagner, really do not add the comic relief to the play they seem to be intended to despite Wagner’s best efforts.

The direction by Gavin Petersen is solid, but predicable as each scene is repeated throughout the play.

Whet does not get the audience anywhere is Connor Geary’s writing. The play is basically rinse and repeat. Geary’s story of two roommates, one a narcissist and the other a stay at home, milk toast, introvert is good for the first 15-minute scene. But repeating the same scene multiple times for a 75-minute play does not make it interesting or absurd. Although Collins and Hamlin are directed as LGBTQ male lovers, there is nothing in the play that would require them to be. The same relationship could exist between a straight or platonic roommate couple. If Geary does not insist on character descriptions in his script, there is nothing wrong with this. But if he insists on the characters being male and gay, he needs to step back and embrace the fact that he has written universal characters who can be played by anyone. It will probably make him a better writer.

A Perfect Map is a good show for a short play festival, but it does not have the energy or purpose needed on a full one-act.