Theatre review: Hinge presents: Ordinary ThingsHill Street Theatre (VENUE 41)HH

Two stories, one room in an old Hungarian house: in the present day, a pair of gap year tourist lovers squabble and ponder who lived there before.

RATING: * *

In the 1960s, it turns out it was a young filmmaker who befriended a homeless addict and aimed to expose the Soviet state’s hypocrisies. Unfortunately, neither tale has any depth, and the young actors are much more convincing playing modern middle-class students than at conveying any sense of people from a very different time and place. The script is full of lazy phrases and flowery musings.

Until 26 August.