Theatre review A modern love affair's highs and lows hit home in this pacy play

Most of us simply dig up memories, but the couple in Frantic Assembly's show clamber over a wall of filing cabinets filled with them.

- Chris Wiegand

Lost Atoms Curve theatre, Leicester ★★★★☆

In this arresting production directed by Scott Graham, the drawers open to become steps, seats, even a toilet bowl. Their contents include photos, golf clubs and glowing lightbulbs.

Each one sparks a recollection in Anna Jordan's two-hander, which recounts a relationship from the couple's chance meeting to their implosion and beyond. Framed by Simisola Majekodunmi's colourful lighting, Jess and Robbie look back at the days and nights that define them as a pair.

It's a memory play in the tradition of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, who wrote that such dramas "can be presented with unusual freedom of convention". That's certainly the case with the set, which has a bed that unfolds from a wall of cabinets and serves as a refuge and precipice for these lovers who cling to it.