Chances are few theatergoers would condone spousal abuse. So the only thing left for Lauren Gunderson’s so-called “revenge comedy,” “Exit, Pursued By a Bear,” to settle is how much violent payback is appropriate for a wife to inflict on her abusive hubby.

Gunderson does not try to cast the situation in shades of murky gray. Kyle Carter (David Nail) is a Georgia redneck, a textbook male chauvinist, beer-swilling caricature, so we are on wife Nan’s (Niki Fridh) side from the start.

Tired of being Kyle’s punching bag, Nan has decided to leave the scuzzball. But before she does, she duct tapes him to his Laz-y-Boy recliner, surrounding him with venison meat and honey to attract the bears who lurk just outside his mountain cabin.

It is a scheme of vengeance worthy of Shakespeare and, in fact, Gunderson’s title is taken directly from the Bard — his infamous stage direction from “The Winter’s Tale.” Here and there in her brief, but overlong script, Gunderson tosses in an Elizabethan reference, but most of the play’s fitfully amusing humor is of the broad, good-ol’-boy variety.

To help Kyle get the right message, Nan intends to re-enact key moments from their relationship. To do so, she enlists a couple of her friends: a buxom stripper and actress wannabe named Sweetheart (Lindsey Forgey) and an effeminate gay pal, Simon (David Hemphill).

“Exit, Pursued By a Bear” calls to mind other feminist revenge fables, such as “Thelma and Louise” and “9 to 5,” but once Gunderson sets up Nan’s ursine plan, she has little to add to the genre or anywhere unexpected to take her play.

“Exit” has already received productions from Atlanta to San Francisco and it now serves as the season opener for The Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach, staged by artistic director Louis Tyrrell. You could think of it as Florida Stage Lite — very light.

Fortunately, Tyrrell has a very game cast which commits itself to these characters and tries hard to invest them with some reality. Nail (seen previously at Florida Stage in “Sins of the Mother” and “Cane”) spends most of the evening with his mouth taped shut. When allowed to speak — often in flashbacks — Kyle becomes his own worst enemy, trying to justify his actions. Fridh is something of a wounded bird, playing the victim with a yen for vindication, definitely earning audience empathy.

Forgey and Hemphill have the hardest assignments, asked to play two-dimensional cartoons. It is questionable whether these characters add much to the central conflict, but they do earn most of the laughs. And Hemphill is a hoot in his cheerleader outfit, pom poms and all.

Over his career, Tyrrell has produced the occasional comedy, but few as insubstantial as “Exit, Pursued By a Bear.” It delivers some laughs, but adds little to the discourse on domestic abuse. Had it been written by Shakespeare, it probably would have closed in Stratford.