I Caught Crabs At Walberswick *** TNT
Hormones rage and a teenage friendship is tested in Joel Horwood’s lively new comedy set in Suffolk, where sleepy Walberswick really does host a crab-catching competition. Despite its memorable title, it’s more a question of who might get the girl when posh, super-fit Dani (a definite “10”) hooks up with middle-class Wheeler and his best mate Fitz on the eve of their Biology GCSE exam. Their futures are thrown into jeopardy as they get high on booze and drugs during an evening which gets progressively out of control, until they’re pushed into facing up to the way their lives are likely to go.
Lucy Kerbel’s swift 70 minute production is both funny and touching, with the adults -two unhappy single parents (one taking refuge in the fantasy flights of aircraft simulation games, the other an ineffectual artist) and a bickering long-married couple - still as confused about the world as their 16-year-old offspring.
Hormones rage and a teenage friendship is tested in Joel Horwood’s lively new comedy set in Suffolk, where sleepy Walberswick really does host a crab-catching competition. Despite its memorable title, it’s more a question of who might get the girl when posh, super-fit Dani (a definite “10”) hooks up with middle-class Wheeler and his best mate Fitz on the eve of their Biology GCSE exam. Their futures are thrown into jeopardy as they get high on booze and drugs during an evening which gets progressively out of control, until they’re pushed into facing up to the way their lives are likely to go.
Lucy Kerbel’s swift 70 minute production is both funny and touching, with the adults -two unhappy single parents (one taking refuge in the fantasy flights of aircraft simulation games, the other an ineffectual artist) and a bickering long-married couple - still as confused about the world as their 16-year-old offspring.
Bush Theatre, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 (020-8743 5050). Until December 6. £13-£15
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