Gene Pool was billed as a comedy but struck me as just a lot of clichéd unpleasantness.
The Family didn’t seem to be all that dysfunction, they just were experiences most of the ups and downs of married life in middle age while raising a teenaged son.
The two lesbian mothers performances were flat vocally. The humor mostly fell flat because they tried and failed to play all the clichéd witticisms for laughs, instead of connecting with the seriousness of the situation, so a lot of the humor fell flat and came across as obnoxious.
The performances of the son and the sperm donor father were rather better and finally at the end of the play the audience glimpsed some real emotion.
The structure of the plot was unfocused and there was a lot of unnecessary and slow exposition –in fact the whole first scene could have been cut out, rather than laboriously taking the audience through.
It is obvious that the writer knew nothing about the squeamishness of parents and teenagers concerning the teen-ager loosing their virginity and sex matters. The lack of realism made it just embarrassing to watch and only the son seemed to have the necessary comic timing.