This week President Obama declared that the biggest threat to American security was a nuclear attack. For Julian Sims's comedy, whose unlikely scenario sees a New York Jewish family of refugees surviving a nuclear holocaust by fleeing to "post-glasnost" Russia, Obama's warning makes credible an idea so far-out it goes beyond far-fetched.
The family consists of Jewish matriarch Barbara (Sue Kelvin doing her speciality), henpecked husband Victor and their son Sam. Victor's plan to pay for their emigration to Israel depends on his sideline as a heroin dealer which brings the mafia knocking. Sam, meanwhile, turns out to be gay. All this I can buy.
But Sims blunts his sharp if shouty one-liners with comedy broader than the M1 and plot, dialogue and character traits that fail to convince.
Director Michael Kingsbury, who has a strong comedy track record, should have knocked some of the corners off Sims's script. (Tel: 020 7793 9193)