Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jordan Turk, Francesca Dolan.

The initial joy of the Edinburgh Fringe is never truly lost, it always manages to find a way to sparkle anew each time a visitor finds themselves on the path to potential desire and the world of fluttering, butterfly-like dreams. The Edinburgh Fringe is such that it creates writing heroes from out of nowhere and the first-timer, the one who takes a chance on a play that they have undertaken and is rewarded by gentleness and spirit, is the one to be applauded with stout resolution.

For Becky Owen-Fisher, her debut play at the Edinburgh Fringe, the dynamic Generation Zero, is one that deals with how climate change is looked at from the eyes of those to whom it has, along with the war on terrorism and its aftermath on the streets of Europe, Africa and continental U.S.A., shaped and guided; those to whom they are the ones with the long term responsibility of either trying to sort out what those over 30 couldn’t or suffer the consequences with more danger in the making.

What Generation Zero brings though to the Edinburgh Fringe is a new story but one with an old soul, the deception of spying on those you care about as their interest in the subject becomes all consuming and potentially life threatening. It is a subject that reminds the audience of the brave Greenpeace women who were infiltrated by police, of the countless women who were tricked and deceived by those that promised them love but were secretly carrying out covert undercover work, detailing their day to day activities whilst kissing them at night.

The duo on stage, Jordan Turk and Francesca Dolan, were impressive, they nailed down the point of trust and the breaking down of faith perfectly and with a sweeping sense of drama that spilled over from passion into loathing with conviction and dependable determination to make this play the resounding success it deserves to be.

The Earth is precious, just as is a relationship between two people who care for each other, when forced to take a side that they might disagree with, it is a cause for concern that they might not survive, that their time together will be as eroded as sand, stone and shells that are all that stand between us and sinking beneath the waves.

A treasure of a debut play, Generation Zero is here to continue the fight.

Ian D. Hall