365 - TNT

There are no facts or figures in David Harrower's collaborative new play for the National Theatre of Scotland – the programme fills in the disturbing details. Instead what he gives us is a sometimes dreamlike, sometimes all too real insight into what it can be like for the many teenagers who leave the sheltered environment of institutionalised residential and foster care for the interim arrangement of a 'practice flat'. In this half way house environment, these often damaged kids have to learn how to cope with severely limited financial, practical and emotional support before they are expected to stand entirely on their own two feet.

One gangly youth doesn't know how to plug in a toaster, but wants to be a chef; a young girl can't free herself from the traumatic legacy of being abandoned by her mother, with only a packet of cereal, when she was just four years old; three other youngsters are trapped in a once comforting, now abusive, interdependency.

There are no complete stories. Instead director Vicky Featherstone's moving production combines compelling performances with music, movement and clever design to create a montage of pain, humour and, against the odds, hope for a better future.

Lyric Hammersmith, King Street, Hammersmith, W6 (0871-221 1722). Until September 27. £10-£27