Will Eno's trendily absurdist play aims its satirical barbs at the CNN generation.
Set in a US newsroom on the occurrence of a worldwide disaster, it sends up the self-important and macho style of news-reporting that brings a swirling cloak of significance to every event, be it a presidential resignation, or a cat stuck up a tree.
The post-modern twist to Eno's determined anti-plot is that the reporters posing as perfectly manicured harbingers of disaster are in fact reporting nothing.
The supposed crisis? That the sun has set - and as the news team whirls into action to cover the implications of this "cataclysmic" event, all the viewer can see is a mass of low-grade information vanishing up its own vortex.
You suspect that Eno, as well as being a fellow of the Edward F Albee Foundation, is a bit of a Jean Baudrillard fan.
Baudrillard - for those who have had better things to do with their lives - once posited the controversial theory that the Gulf War never really happened. His argument was roughly this: if you give enough importance to the representation of an event, the representation will eventually become more real than the event itself. Extending the argument to absurdity, he asks: if most of us experienced the Gulf War only as it was represented on the television, how can we prove there was a truth beyond what was manufactured by the reporters?
Eno is obviously a gifted, bright writer - and the reams of news nonsense spouted by his journalists are initially engaging. However, after the first 10 minutes of lines such as, "It's the worst world in the world here tonight, Frank. People are all over, everywhere," the joke begins to pall - and you begin to wonder whether he should not be sat down with a few videos of The Day Today and persuaded to reduce the play to a sketch.
Simon Daw has used a starkly minimal-ist design to evoke the newsroom and its "on site" reporters, and the cast spouts the non-ironic nothingness with appropriate synthetic dignity. In the end, however, you realise that little satirises this type of news-reporting quite as well as itself.
Tragedy: A Tragedy
