It's not often you get to see a fringe production of a play that is only three years old. Polly Stenham's No Quarter made its debut at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs in January 2013 and I remember it quite vividly so I was curious as to what Duelling Production's take would be.

The play is set in a dishevelled room in a grand, old house that has seen better days. There is a piano, an antique chest and a tatty sofa slouches against the wall. Buckets hang from the ceiling (I kept expecting to hear the plop of water from a leaky roof) and sheets of music make up the flooring - a reference to our protagonist's apparent musical talent.

That protagonist is Robin (Ryan Whittle), who is hiding his mother Lily (Miranda Wilson) after she absconded from her nursing home. Robin, we learn, was home schooled and coddled and, as a result, was ill-prepared for the outside world when Lily finally 'released' him. He is part spoiled child, part tortured artist with the accompanying disagreeable personality traits - he should compare notes with Matt Smith's Maxim in Unreachable.