Let me get one thing straight – at 24, I’m not sure I’m qualified to write a review of Village Theatre’s newest play, “The Odd Couple.”

Set in New York in the ’60s, the play depicts the tale of divorced men looking for meaning in their lives after marriage. The leads are Felix Ungar, an utterly annoying neat freak, and Oscar Madison, a curmudgeon who tosses his wrappers and trash on the floor.

Felix moves into Oscar’s apartment when his wife kicks him out, and hilarity ensues as these two try to make it work being best friends, yet polar opposites of one another.

When Neil Simon sat down to write his comedic play in the mid-’60s, a slob was someone who sat on his couch eating peanuts, as opposed to Big Macs and fries. A man who was in touch with his emotions and loved to clean was seen as an oddity; today, he’s an ideal husband.

These two male archetypes, while comical in the ’60s, are not as relevant in 2012.

Male and female gender roles have changed dramatically since Simon’s time: hippies have frolicked, the bra was burned, then brought back to be worn under women’s shoulder-padded suites. The term stay-at-home-dad continues to become more and more normal. And divorce has become less of a big deal.

Having grown up in this post-Simon era, when I knew I would be doing a review of “The Odd Couple,” I brought the one person I could think of who would appreciate it – my grandma.

While the phenomenal actors still made me laugh, especially at Oscar’s “Why I oughtta…!” moments or Felix’s cluelessness, there have been other Village plays that resonated with me more; shows such as “Take Me America,” a story of international people seeking asylum in life-and-death situations, or the radical “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

The art of theater won’t always be able to please its audiences, especially when the people sitting in the seats are generations apart. But it’s good there’s a theater nearby that knows when to push boundaries sometimes, and when to pull out the oldies at other times.

“The Odd Couple” runs now until March 25. Village Theatre is located at 303 Front St., N, Issaquah. For more information, go to villagetheatre.org.

Gabrielle Nomura can be reached at 425-453-4270.

Charles Leggett as Oscar Madison (left) and Chris Ensweiler as Felix Unger. Photo by Jay Koh.