Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Aimee Marnell, Chloe Nezianya, Jahney Dalrymple.

Politics is a confusing game at the best of times; it is almost as if the bigger the set of policies being delivered out, the more sound bites there are in which to wheel across the political spectrum, the more, in truth, they all start to sound the same. It is a policy that could be seen as if the so called political elite or the somehow opinionated savvy are all delivering the same message to the politically confused.

For writer Adam Leyland, it is a jungle that is worth exploring, a jungle of issues, a desert of responsibility and a cavern full of dealing with the ignorant, the ignorance of those who want the youth vote without really investing in their lives.

The Ballot Box Ballad, the dance between those who desire power but have no idea of how to engage with the young and first time voter, who leave them dazed and bemused by it all, has surely not been as keenly felt as it has been for generations and in his play Keeping It P.C. (Politically Confused), Adam Leyland offers a glimpse of what political indecision means to the young as three young forst time voters pick their way through what is right for them.

Aimee Marnell, Chloe Nezianya and Jahney Dalrymple take this indecision on with great humour but also with an underlying sadness that grips the heart and squeezes the thought of just exactly how far we have come down the line in which we still hang onto the outdated mode of voting like our parents, blindly being taken in by the charm of some promising chancer with no real policy for the future benefit of all or worse being forced into apathy because of rejection to a system that is both corrupted and capable of destroying faith.

Politics is a game, one in which sides are swapped and allies stabbed in the back, Keeping It P.C. (Politically Confused), acknowledges this but offers hope in the discourse between friends. It is a discourse that really needs to happen across the ages and not to be seen as alienating a bright prospect for the future.

Keeping It P.C. (Politically Confused) is a very good production as part of the U Decide festival at the Unity Theatre.

Ian D. Hall