Women (& men) cope with foreign marriages in Elena Lappin's shrewd domestic comedies of the absurd, set in London, New York, & a constellation of European & Israeli cities. Transplanted across oceans & ensconced in strange houses where appliances malfunction & husbands are not what they seem, women like Noa, Vera, an Paula settle into lives of persistently unfamiliar routine, stirred up from time to time with a very crooked stick. In "Noa & Noah," Noa, an Israeli, has been married for two years before her English improves & she realizes that her British husband, Noah, is not a glamorous businessman but a dull junior debt collector. In revenge she begins to frequent an unkosher butcher-& that's just the beginning. Vera, a Russian, married to an unsuccessful British butler, takes to driving a cab & extortion in "Peacock"; Paula, a German, married to her dead best friend's husband, writes stories & snorts cocaine in "Bad Writing." With perfect pitch & a poker face, Lappin writes insidiously funny tales about love & survival in an international no-man's-land of marriage.