‘A Field of Daisies’ freshly blooming

In a moment of creative despair, director-writer Matt Chaffee realized that “Untitled Virgin-Whore Project” was a terrible name for a nutty new comedy play about modern-day dating. “I have to give them something stupid,” he told himself, “like ... ‘Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies’!”

Within moments of this oddball inspiration, Chaffee was on the phone to his producer, collaborator and best friend, Samuel Bliss Cooper, who is also double-cast as the hapless romantic Baby Boy. “I called him up and said: ‘We’re changing the title.’ There was a deafening silence on the other end of the phone. Then I said: ‘And we’re putting in a dance number!’ ”

Would a daisy by any other name be as fluffy? The positive reviews that followed seemed to vindicate the change. Now, bowing to popular demand, “Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies,” expected to run about four weeks when it opened June 7 at Hollywood’s 47-seat Zoo Theatre on a funky strip of Cahuenga Boulevard, has been extended again, this time through Nov. 24.

This means the volunteer cast and crew will work for no salary for almost five months longer than they ever dreamed. But everyone involved in this labor of fluff is thrilled by the unexpected success.

Chaffee and Cooper, both 30 and single, are friends who hate “Friends.” “Our play is humor in similar circumstances, but I don’t think they go deep enough,” Chaffee says.

“It’s like hyper-’Friends,’ ” offers Cooper.

Both believe that men drowning in the dating pool are obsessed with the did-she-or-didn’t-she question.

“It’s strictly a male phenomenon, and it’s not something that will ever be solved or ever change. Women can be who they are and watch the men flounder around them,” observes Chafee. “The men are clearly the people who don’t have it together.”

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‘Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies’

Where: Zoo Theatre, 1611 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood.

When: Fridays-Sundays, 8 p.m. Through Nov. 24.

Price: $15.

Contact: (323) 460-4233.