After a torrid few years, the Royal Court, the country’s premier new writing theatre, is finding its rhythm once again. Artistic Director David Byrne’s programme cannily interweaves more formally audacious work with guaranteed big hitters and this latest play from Nick Payne confidently straddles both categories, starring as it does Nicola Walker ( The Split , Unforgiven ) in a performance of blistering potency.

Payne made his name at the Court in 2012 with Constellations , a playfully time-shifting examination of love and chance, and time does not run in a straight line in The Unbelievers either.

The subject here is a missing teenager, Oliver, who has disappeared from his family home without trace and the 100 minutes of drama intercut scenes from immediately after Oliver goe

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