PARTY FACE by Irish Playwright Isobel Mahon is a Waste of Time and Space

PARTY FACE playing at NYC Center Stage II was a complete waste of my time.  I won't waste more of my time complaining about how bad it is.  It's just that bad.  Written by Irish playwright Isobel Mahon & labeled a new comedy it's neither funny, poignant, clever or...whatever.  I can't get my time or money back, so let me save you the agony of this dreadful production.  Mahon won "Best Newcomer to the Irish Theater" as an actress.  Perhaps, she should keep her day job at acting, her writing career is careening to a stop with this flop.   The 5 character 2 act play stars actress Hayley Mills.  The all women cast is led by Mills, teen star of Y/A movies "Polyanna" &"The Parent Trap".  Why Mills agreed to be in this crap, yeah yeah yeah, I don't know.  There's no way to spin a silver lining from this droll and irritating play.  It's about Mollie Mae a women who suffered a nervous breakdown requiring hospitalization & has returned home only to be burdened by her overbearing & insufferable mother Carmel played by Mills.  (Mills looks as if she could be the real life mother of Blythe Danner.)   Mollie Mae & her mom are soon joined by the equally self-absorbed, insensitive younger version of Mills, Chloe invited to Mollie's home by Carmel. Maeve, Mollie's older, tougher & wiser sister soon arrives to lend Mollie some backbone.  The incessant dialogue is a wreck needing a total renovation.  The last few moments of Act I ushers in a new character, Bernie.  Bernie holds out some promise of levity to this laden wreck.  Bernie's not shy about sharing the facts of her breakdown which landed her in the same psychiatric hospital as Mollie.  Bernie's energy is ebullient & off-beat which is so tangental it seems to be out of place from the rest of the production.  Good golly Miss Mollie, I sure didn't like this play at all.