A man is standing on a dimly lit stage which is bare except that it gently slopes towards a large square drain cover in the middle. He's wearing a stained and ripped parka: Hood up, sunglasses, bushy beard, no trousers, white y-fronts. Occasionally he does press ups or shadow boxes, otherwise he just stands. He's part funny, part strange, part intimidating. This is Pomona summed in a character.

Alistair McDowall's play is set in Manchester. The Pomona of the title is a real place, an abandoned island in the docks. He's taken something real and twisted it with something that feels dystopian, inflected with fantasy.

Ollie (Nadia Clifford) seeks out the help of our hooded man (Guy Rhys) to find her twin sister who has disappeared and may or may not be in some sort of trouble. The warning is there right from the start in hooded man's comic description of the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark - some things should just be left hidden.

All the roads lead to Pomona a place which wears a shroud of mystery that chills before you even get there. It isn't a linear journey but peopled with jigsaw pieces that gradually fit together to reveal something horrific and strange. It is a journey that threads together the darkest sides of society with dungeons and dragons; myth and grim reality.