If There is I Haven't Found it Yet @ Roundabout

The staging for the play, If There is I Haven't Found it, is very intriguing. As you enter the theatre, water is cascading down the front of the stage into a glass tank, like you see in Central Park for the polar bears.  The middle of the stage is strewn with furniture piled high and a young girl walks ghostlike in the background.  The play begins with George, an environmental activist, speaking of his love for polar bears.  George reminisces about taking his wife & young daughter to the zoo to visit the polar bears but is distressed to learn one of the bears died choking on a toy dropped into the tank.
George's wife, Fiona, is a teacher @ the school where her overweight, teenager daughter, Anna, is a student.  Anna is subjected to bullying @ school & is basically disregarded @ home.  Enter Uncle Terry, Jake Gyllenhaal, the drugged, derelict who comes to his brother's home to stay after many years, unexpectedly.  Terry is the only person who interacts with Anna and dispenses (not necessarily sage) advice.  The actors all pull items from the totem of objects on stage for various scenes and then discard them into the tank of water.  The father is consumed with saving the planet from global warming, the mother is disengaged from her family, Uncle Terry has left and Anna in utter  despair, attempts suicide in a bathtub flooding the stage.  The play is drowning in metaphors and proselytizing for environmental reform.  Fiona tries to connect with Anna and when Anna suggests a movie, Fiona recalls the Titantic as the last movie she's seen.  While this play doesn't tank, it doesn't manage to stay afloat.  There are things to recommend in the play, Jake Gyllenhaal for one, but the flotsam and jetsam is better than the whole.