It's heartwarming to know that when two pedestrians walking down Ship Street saw a woman beside herself with anguish, they both tried to help her.

They didn't know she was part of a play in the Old Ship Hotel which was being watched by an audience in the opposite building.

Five Years Of Happiness is the story of a discreet rendezvous between a woman and her married lover.

As it becomes apparent he is not coming, the music and movement becomes darker and the woman's phone calls to her lover's answering machine get more desperate.

The story's universal theme is underlined by the use of three actresses in the hotel, who switch places and slowly go from synchronised movements to different variations on despair.

The only downside to the very well-conceived show was an over-extended ending.