So Young

Anna Sokolova
Nov 23, 2025
2 min read

Old Fitz Theatre, 7-22 November 2025

The review

Produced by the Outhouse Theatre Co @outhousetheatreco (@mrjeremywaters), a company whose work is consistently strong and mature. Every play produced (I’ve seen Flick, Ulster American, Consent) and staged is a complex, layered work. Plays that make ordinary life snap something special and rich. The company excels in performing without falling into the cheap domestic sentimental dramas. Instead, they make them polished, crystal clear in divulging deep human connections and feelings.

“So young” is produced by Jeremy Waters @mrjeremywaters, who is also playing Davie, along with his real-life partner Ainslie McGlynn @ainsliejosephine as his wife Liane. There is nothing to refer to as bringing personal to the stage. These actors are highly professional. However, the background is in there - look at the open Socials - and it feels dense, sophisticated, and warm.

Glasgow. A family home of Davie and Liane (Ainslie McGlyn), a long-time married couple. A couch, a room behind a door at the back, a shelf with records - a busy and cosy room full of small things. The other half of the stage is darkened at first - that will become a kitchen or a balcony in another flat, later.

They certainly love each other, and, after years together, they have grown so close that half-completed sentences and small hints are enough for one to pick what the other says or meant to.

They are to go visit a close family friend, Milo (Henry Nixon @henry_nixon_). A usual thing, but this time it slips from Davie’s tongue - there is a new girlfriend to be introduced. Greta (Aisha Aidara @aisha_aidara), twenty-five years younger than Milo, is taking the place of his wife, Liane’s best friend, who suddenly passed away only three months ago.

The evening unrolls a hurricane. While the situation might sound like a cliché, it rises high above a typical scandal. It shapes itself into a detailed exploration of deep grief, devotion to a friendship, acceptance of changes and a great fear of the vanishing of the memories of someone one loved.

The circumstances of the story are somewhat each of us, especially mid-aged, who might have a firm opinion on, in advance. Watching this play - it is best to drop it all and let the actors shape a perspective that their character perceives as right. Let those four solidly made and played personalities find the way and make us feel deeply compassionate, or disappointed, or heartbroken, or full of love, or be repulsed by them. To choose not for them but with them, what is the right thing to do. That's the theatre in its beauty, and @outhousetheatreco shines in it.