Bit of a Philip Ridley fan so was naturally keen to see his new piece, Tender Napalm, at the Southwark Playhouse. It is a two-hander played out on a rectangular stage, bare apart from two chairs facing each other from either end. The audience sits down the two long sides.

From the opening exchange between the Man (Jack Gordon) and the Woman (Vinette Robinson), positioned so as to have the audience looking one way then another, as if watching a tennis match, the emotional battle lines are drawn.

The play explores love at it most tender and most explosive through a series of linked vignettes - some exchanges, some monologues.

Many are from a flight of imagination where the two protagonists are Greek God-like characters fighting each other for supremacy in their own fantasy kingdom. These are cleverly interwoven with glimpses and references of reality so that the story of their relationship and the nature of their love gradually unfolds.