£1 Thursdays review – nightclubbing, sex talk and big decisions

Finborough theatre, London
A mix of sweet observations about female friendship and cheeky brazenness about sex, Kat Rose-Martin’s play finds two young women at a crossroads in their lives

In the cold air outside a sticky nightclub in Bradford, 17-year-olds Stacey and Jen are at a crossroads. In one direction lies the world they know: the family stress, the looming exams, the pumping pop beats at the club where they’ll reliably pull boys from school. In the other direction lies an uncertain path, and questions of who they are apart from one another, whether they could be the first in their families to go to university, and how to afford it if they do. Constantly on their minds, while they’re drunkenly dancing the nights away, is where they’ll end up, and what to do if they are the ones left behind.

Thoughtful if not revelatory, £1 Thursdays covers an uneasy period of big decisions in these characters’ lives, as the gap between them widens. Monique Ashe-Palmer (Six) is ebullient as Stacey, who is kind and confident until an older man comes along to confine her, to the frustration of Yasmin Taheri as Jen. They’re supported by Joseph Ayre as Stacey’s violent boyfriend and Sian Breckin as Jen’s sweet but underwritten mum, whose personality is reduced to the menopause.

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