David (
Ashley Walters) comes roaring out of prison and is dismayed to discover that his old friends, Kojo (Daniel Francis) and Keisha (
Lorraine Burroughs), are about to take their credit cards, cool clothes and flat screen telly, move away from the streets they grew up in and start a family far from The Endz.David has no intention of slaving for the minimum wage and, when Kojo is made redundant, quickly embroils his cash-strapped childhood brother in sinister and ill-fated schemes for selling drugs; while pregnant Keisha is kept in the dark.
Bola Agbaje's
compelling new play hurtles through gender politics, the hole in the heart of consumerism and the
crisis of masculinity in a 70 minute swirl of punchy two and three handed scenes on a clean, uncluttered set at the Royal Court. Some friendships don't last into
adulthood -- whatever that is -- and you will have to make up your own mind about the happiness of the ending.
NB: runs till 13/03.