Guy wants to make amends. In Neil LaBute's 2005 play, he wants absolution from four former girlfriends who, according to that part of the male brain that most resembles a conscience, he may have wronged.

First on the list is the former high-school sweetheart in Seattle, dumped just before the prom. Fifteen years later, he's about to get married and just wants to make sure that Sam (Elly Condron) doesn't blame herself. In Boston, when he was a student there was Lindsay (Carolyn Backhouse), the Harvard lecturer with whom he had an affair and left to deal with the fallout of a betrayed husband and a destroyed reputation alone.

But running is what Guy does best. He did it from wild party-girl Tyler (Roxanne Pallett) in Chicago, and Bobbi (Carley Stenson) in LA, with whom he may still be in love. "I'll bet hurt is your number one by-product," she tells him.

The challenge of LaBute's play is portraying women in a way that doesn't only define them as victims. Gary Condes's slick production largely sidesteps that mantrap with four terrifically nuanced performances by the female cast, and one by Charles Dorfman who as the archetypal Guy (note the gender encapsulating name) captures the duplicitous essence of male bad behaviour. His every attempt to salve old wounds end up rubbing salt into them. Dorfman's Guy administers the treatment with a butter-wouldn't-melt sincerity that will make many a man shift with shame.