“Games We Play” is remarkable, delightful and resonant theater, through Feb. 26, Touchstone Theatre, Bethlehem.

The two-person play stars Emma Ackerman, Touchstone Theatre General Manager-Ensemble Member, and Chris Egging, Touchstone Theatre Technical Director-Ensemble Associate.

Ackerman and Egging created, designed and perform the approximate one-hour and 20-minute (with no intermission) drama-comedy with music and dance. The opening night Feb. 16 performance was seen for this review.

The play, which takes place in the 1990s, revolves around the friendship of Chrissy (Ackerman) and Xan (Egging), beginning with childhood days of carefree tree-climbing, energetic wooden swordplay and staying on the good side of their mothers.

The storybook set is lovingly rendered with the replication of a huge tree on stage right, a ladder leading to a tree house in center stage and a fence on stage left. There’s a tree trunk “seat” that was created and placed downstage on turf of artificial grass. Articles of clothing that the actors wear to denote the passage of time are hung on side walls of the stage.

Lighting, with some nice washes creates the effect of water in a lake or ocean; stark lines and a few stroboscopic flashes create a video-game starkness, and a single white diagonal bar of light on the stage floor gives a ray of hope at the play’s conclusion.

The production has a cinematic sense with use of slow-motion movement and audio effects that include tape loops of music and voice.

The platonic friendship of Chrissy and Xan is followed through teen years as each begins to date other people, to Chrissy going away to college and Xan staying in their unnamed hometown to take care of his mother. Their friendship continues during their 20s with email instant messaging (exchanges in real time are projected on a video screen with familiar email “ding” sound effects).

As with most long-term friendships, there are rough spots around the middle, but these are resolved with the two friends achieving a catharsis, renewal and understanding, celebrated in movement-style impressionistic dance with choreography by Ashley Tait Weller, and “Earth and Air,” a winsome song weaves throughout the play in various forms, with Chrissy symbolizing Air and Xan representing Earth.

Ackerman and Egging are in excellent voice and harmonize well. Ackerman plays ukulele. Egging plays acoustic guitar.

Ackerman and Egging interact well, creating believable characters who seem to have been friends their entire lives. The play requires a lot of physicality, and the two actors utilize the Touchstone stage to its fullest.

Ackerman has a way of playing the happy and sad emotions with effective overlap. She is dynamic, charming and convincing.

Egging is impressive in his way of commanding a space without dominating or being overbearing. He is lithe, subtle and superb.

“Games We Play” is the kind of stagecraft that Touchstone Theatre does best: entertaining yet thought-provoking, fun yet profound, professional yet relatable. It’s a memory play that is very memorable. Don’t miss it.

“Games We Play,” 8 p.m. Feb. 16-18, 23-25; 2 p.m. Feb. 19, 26. Tickets: 610-867-1689; http://www.touchstone.org/