Helter Skelter/Land Of The Dead- TNT

Fans of Neil LaBute's work for stage and screen won't be surprised that surface pleasantry soon turns to something darker in this emotionally chilling double bill. Running at just more than an hour, these two short New York pieces (though thematically linked by pregnancy, mobile phones and the communication gap between men and women) weren't originally intended to be performed together. But they make for a mesmerising, if unsettling, evening, as Ruth Gemmell's finely observed female characters face first an abortion and then the spectre of adultery. Meanwhile the men (jokily immature John Kirk and tactlessly self-absolving Patrick Driver) evade and avoid until ultimately there's no escape from the final nasty stings in the tail which characterise so much of LaBute's writing.
Bush Theatre, Shepherd's Bush Green, W12 (020-7610 42240). Until February 16. £15-£10