Bad Champagne by Jared Appleton is a two-couple chamber play that unfolds over the course of a single charged evening: a dinner between Morgan and his fiancée Maeby, and Morgan's ex-girlfriend Phoebe and her new partner Alby. The play is intimate in scale — four characters, a mirror, an armchair, a coffee table — but expansive in what it explores.

Now Morgan is engaged to Maeby, a therapist, and Phoebe is with Alby, a self-made and self-satisfied entrepreneur. The dinner is Maeby's idea, framed as a gesture of closure and maturity. As the evening progresses, it becomes clear that everyone arrived with a private agenda.