This Year's Thing, Pleasance Cabaret Bar

Julia King, 37, kitchen assistant, Southside: "I have to admit, from what I'd read about the play I was expecting something entirely different. I enjoyed parts of it but some of it just didn't seem to know where it was going.

"I liked the flashback and the use of two people playing older and younger versions of the characters. The two girls were great and I could have done with seeing a bit more of them as it seemed as if more was going to happen with them and then they more or less disappeared."

Gary Millen, 43, civil servant, Oxgangs: "I don't think I'd have stayed around for the whole thing if I hadn't been with friends. I thought it had some good parts but it seemed too trivial and bitty. I did like the mini lecture on the Stonewall riots and thought the twist was good. Most of the acting was fine to be honest but too many of the cast swallowed their lines and so if you were sitting at the back as I was it was difficult to hear. All in all I just found it a little banal and slow and I thought it could have been done a lot better."