Right after the lush starter, the Teen Commandments, my compatriots and I went up to Stage 2 for the main event,Stage 2 is a much larger space with banked seating one would normally expect in a theatre, whilst still retaining an air of intimacy with the cast. Two rows from the front, we stared in anticipation at the six painted chairs set out on the Stage before us. Whatever it was going to be like, we were about to get a very up close and personal experience of it, for sure.
Three fifteen year old girls and three lads, set about showing life, Adam and Eve style, with drugs, sex, party rape, OCD, violence and the harsh reality of being a mam way too young. Eve was the try anything girl (played by Therase Neve), under age Empire goer, experimental drug taker and party animal supreme (even when her mam was dying). Adam (played by Scott Turnbull) was the obsessive compulsive ( "I had to shut me mam's drawer seven times..."), sometime dirty book loft lurker, completely smitten with Eve. Gary, (played by Louis Roberts) was the archetypical chav thug, complete with bicce'd baldy head and tucked in trackie bottoms. He was going to have his way with the girls, conscious or not..... Claire (played by Jodie Byrne) was the one who gets caught with the kid, curtailing her Ibeza ambitions. Debbie (played by Abagail Moffatt) doubled as Eve's clubbing mate and Adam's mam. Ben (played by Dylan Edge) teamed up with Adam in his 'walk on the wild side' in pursuit of Eve, and also played his violent dad. Grittily portrayed, with genuine emotion and laughter in equal measure, no punches are pulled in this snapshot of reality involving our teens of today.Set in 'Boro, but it could be any where in the UK, as the same issues are present. The ending? for some, too sudden, but then again life often ends abrubtly, so I thought it was perfect. Go and see it, it's on until the the 25th of September, worth every penny of the £8.50 ticket price.
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