Testosterone-fuelled male bonding sessions with chips, beer and spliffs; Kieran as Kevin the Teenager with his nervy, edgy tics, and Pete with his camcorder filming the minutiae of his mates' lives, makes for a riotously funny but also touching teenage diorama of life as lived in North London in 2002. However, the attention really focuses on the emerging Sapphic relationship between Flea and Thyme. Thyme the ethereal, Pre-Raphaelite beauty disastrously falls for immature 16 year old Justin but really idolizes the sassy and street-wise Flea. Flea on the other hand is busy lobbying the council to keep the local playing fields from being closed. 
      Sid Mitchell with great accuracy portrays Justin's pure childlike enjoyment of swinging on the swings in the First Act, which he hurriedly hides with blokeish embarrassment when Thyme comes to join him; he is still really a child worrying about what his Mum and Dad think. Thyme's brother Peter is concurrently screening live footage onto a back wall and the expressive face of Phoebe Thomas as Thyme looks good on a big screen. There is also some hilarious footage of spermatozoa on a petrie dish with mock 1960's Department of Education voiceover. But the play is chiefy about teenagers trying to take charge of their lives and to making a difference in the world. 
      This is a remarkably sophisticated play from 17 year old Neela Dolezalove about the gradual and painful transition from childhood to adulthood with more than a touch of a feminist undertone to it. Unfortunately an otherwise clever piece of writing is let down by an unnecessarily abrupt ending.
Louise Page