Relocated - TNT

Anthony Neilson likes to keep you guessing. His new dramas are often scheduled for performance long before he's given them a title or finished creating them. His latest disturbing piece is no exception and is chillingly topical.
Separated from the gloomy, low-ceilinged stage by a gauzy mesh (which turns opaque with each change of scene) we encounter, one by one, three women who turn out to be linked by a common identity and are part, perhaps, of awitness protection programme. The overpowering reek of disinfectant and the compulsive hoovering hint at terrible events which can't be erased and, as the fragmented episodes build into a central theme of disappearing little girls, the bunkerlike setting becomes increasingly ominous, bringing to mind the horrific events recently exposed in Austria and instances of child abduction (and worse) closer to home.
Neilson's powerfully acted production (he also directs) is as cruel and disconcerting as a very bad dream, but - as blood drips ominously from the ceiling - it is also unnervingly compelling.
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, SW1. (020-7565 5000). Until July 5. Tickets £15 (£10 on Monday).