And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised, finding it the most satisfying out of the shows mentioned above. Adam Philpott’s production is simple – four twenty-somethings head out to the beach for the afternoon and just sing about life and love and Facebook and friends, trying to figure out some of the trials of young adulthood and the difficulties in finding your own place in a world that won’t stop to let you catch your breath.
As a song cycle, it doesn’t have a strong narrative thread running through it, so it is testament to the skills of the company of four that we can trace something of an emotional journey through the leaps and bounds that the score sometimes asks us to make (Philpott’s initial set-up is perhaps a little disingenuous here). But from bitter kiss-offs to exes through heartbreak, soul ache and frat-boy humour, plus an ode to social media which may have dated but still remains true, there’s much to enjoy.