Emilie Robson’s insinuating new play is structured like random journeys on the Tyne and Wear Metro – or “hopping the metty”, as teenagers Jen and Dean would have it. The two are childhood friends who like to head to the end of the line to people-watch at the airport, or to walk the long way home to South Shields by bailing out at Bede, Jarrow or Hebburn.
They tell their story – or, as she insists, Jen’s story – as mixed-up memories, linked by a collage of subway trips during which two young people find it easier to talk about dogs on the Metro – a whippet in a jacket, for instance – than say what is really on their minds.
