Third Floor

TNT

Even if you’re not sharing the inside of your flat with anyone else, neighbours’ habits can drive you quietly mad – so I had more than a little sympathy with the unnamed first-time buyers in flats 11 and 12 when the unseen occupant of no. 10 repeatedly dumps bin-bags in the communal area of their new canal-side block.

Then there’s the problem of either (a) trying to avoid or (b) catch the eye of the singleton living across the corridor. Just because you’re living in the same building doesn’t automatically mean he/she is going to be your new best friend.

Jason Hall’s slickly directed two-hander neatly catches the frustrations of having total strangers living just a few yards away, but then makes the mistake of taking a slight, but enjoyable, comedy into the realms of a thriller. That said, Craig Gazey (as the persistent and slightly unhinged Hitchcock fan in no.11) and Emily Head (the sleek, rather reserved young professional in no. 12) work well together in a series of short, swift scenes of escalating frustration with the whiffy rubbish cluttering up the hallway.

Trafalgar Studios (2), Whitehall, SW1A 2DY (0844 871 7632) Tube: Charing Cross www.ambassadortickets.com/trafalgarstudios Until 5th November (£25)