Trafalgar Studios
In Owen McCafferty's play about two Belfast boys' friendship in the summer of 1970, one is Mojo, the other Mickybo (played by Martin Brody and Benjamin Davies respectively). Mickybo is Catholic, Mojo Protestant - or, as the boys simply put it, from "up the road". They go through some classic rites of passage (smoking, fighting, running away) before the reality of the Troubles inevitably hits home. But this is not the usual coming-of-age fare. With almost no props, and no costume changes, Brody and Davies rocket through 75 intense minutes, accounting between them for 17 characters. It's a youthful, athletic performance - as befits a play whose director, Jonathan Humphreys, is only 22 - both actors sweating away within the tight confines of the Trafalgar Studios. The youths, in their innocence, always dream of escape; the limits of the space emphasise how impossible that is.