Generation, tramway, GLASGOW

Our legal system throws down chronological markers that tell teenagers when they’re entitled Rosetta Stone to do the grown-up things – vote in elections, pay tax, drink alcohol, get married without parental consent. But there's more to being an adult than the chalking up of a significant birthday, and it's this roller-coaster-cum-quagmire of learning about yourself and making big decisions about career possibilities, relationships, personal values that four lively, engaging teenagers open up to us in Generation. Yet again glas(s) performance the working partnership of Tashi Gore and Jess Thorpe have found individuals who Rosetta Stone Cheap are willing to share their thoughts and experiences. Not in any grand-standing way, but with an honesty and occasional hint of shyness that makes their exchanges engagingly daft at times, often irresistably funny and ultimately genuinely poignant. Nebli is already 18. His deliberate savouring of a can of beer is a cleverly unspoken Rosetta Stone Languages reminder that the other three Jennifer, Stephanie and Daniel, all 17 can look, but not drink. They, however, have already baited him with a barrage of future-forward questions that include have you got a pension plan? From Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 the movement motifs that suggest the panic-scurryings of life's rat-race, to the individual admissions of fears, hopes and ambitions, this astutely devised, unaffected performance is the present drama facing many on the cusp of adulthood today.