Lisa Loomer’s play, “Distracted” brings the world of multi-tasking to the stage by putting the audience in a state where they see the effects of distraction on others.

It begins as someone attempts to center themselves through a meditative prayer, only to be jolted by interruptions from her cell phone and the screaming voice of her demanding child, Jesse, who is heard throughout the play but not seen until the end.

Jesse, played by Ari Vozaitis can’t sit still for a moment and doesn’t do what he’s told either at home or at school. He won’t even put on his pajamas because he doesn’t see the point of getting into them when he just has to get out of them the next morning. His mother, played by Kayla Kearney wants him tested for disorders but his father, played by Nathan Luft-Runner believes he’s only being a boy.

After Jesse is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, the satiric journey through multiple doctors and treatments reveals a larger topic of how we are all distracted from the lives we live because of sensory overload. With action churning on three large media screens and numerous hand-held gadgets, each scene is flooded with distractions: overcrowded thoughts and ideas with relentless stimuli from media crisscrossing throughout the dialogue. A generalized form of A.D.D. unfolds onstage as characters demonstrate their inability to focus, often not facing when talking to each other. They think their thoughts out loud, or think they did and refer to us in the audience as if we weren’t listening.

The effects are a credit to the skill of the production crew and staff, as well as the actors whose well-honed timing deepen the theatrical illusion.

Loop’s characters are fleshed out and expanded by actors who each bring their unique idiosyncratic personality to their role.

Kearney traverses a range of emotions as a mother struggling to figure out what is best for her son. But she, like her child, can never stay still. Her rollercoaster ride from doctor to doctor creates the mood of an urgent comedy.

Each spotlight on Dr. Zavola, magnificently played by Govinda Taskey is a stand-up comedy routine in itself.

The humorous doctor characterizations created by Emma Hill and Brandon Douglas charmingly amuse as they fling around off-the-cuff diagnoses and prescribe everything from Ritalin to environmental cleansing.