The line-up that opens Duncan Graham’s new play appears, at first glance, to be innocuous enough. There was an incident at a shopping mall, and Graham has chosen four people to tell us about it; policewoman, shopper, checkout assistant and a man. But there is nothing of the usual suspects about these characters. The account they tell relates different perspectives of the same incident, and does not end up where you think it might.

The setting is familiar to us, and so are the characters, but how this retrospectively told linear tale unwraps, woven between the storytellers, makes for intriguing and excellent theatre.

Shannon Mackowski’s direction is well conceived and tight, and she skilfully marries perfect pace with the credible character development of the action-packed script. The dialogue bounces between characters, and creates theatrical fascination laden with pathos and flashes of dark humour.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight’s character and her badly behaved and universally loathed child, Toby, are familiar to many. It’s part of the reason the activewear-clad, self-important woman grates so keenly. But it’s Lyndall-Knight’s slide into the realisation of the humanity of the situation that’s worth seeing. Similarly, the moment when acerbic Sarah-Jayde Tracey as the checkout assistant sets aside her loathing...