Yes: dramatic ambition and sophistication. Thank you. Monologuist Martin Dockery (Wanderlust, The Bike Trip, and, at this year’s Fringe, The Dark Fantastic) has also written this two-hander. A woman, who appears to be a prostitute, enters a man’s hotel room. Maybe he wants her to pretend to be his wife. But, in this complex meditation on transience and longing, the framing of reality keeps shifting. As an actor, Dockery is still his eccentric, gesticulating self; he’s probably never going to disappear into a character. But he and fellow actor Vanessa Quesnelle stay grounded and emotionally true. And Quesnelle’s renditions of several of Patsy Cline’s songs are haunting: “I go out walkin’ after midnight/Out in the moonlight, just like we used to do.”

At the Waterfront Theatre on September 9 (5 p.m.), 12 (10:40 p.m.), and 14 (6:45 p.m.)