A short queue sneaked its way up the narrow staircase to the very top of the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court. Doors opened and we headed in to a central slightly raised stage with two rows of seats on two sides and one row of seats on each end. Very intimate!

Following a short delay while the whole building was evacuted due to a "Napkin fire" which involved us going back down all those stairs and then dashing back up again 10 minutes later, the lights went down and the play began.

I won't recount the whole plot now for fear of spoiling it for those who are going along later in the run but......

The plot centres on two adjoining apartments in a New York block. One belongs to Stephen a gay writer and the other to his black neighbour. Stephen is very sensitive to the plight of his neighbour who is on welfare and has lost his leg and wife in a traffic accident

Enter Tyler (Adam) who is Stephen's boyfriend. We first see him in a disco scene on a flashing dancefloor!!!!! Tyler is a party animal, living on a trust fund and attending acting classes and auditions.

Adam has lots of major scenes in the central part of the play most of which are delicate one-on-one scenes with Daniel Evans who plays Stephen.

These involve kissing, massage and a memorable love scene with both boys down to their Calvin Klein boxers. (YES REALLY!!!)

Incidently while we were evacuated from the building we were looking through the script (which is on sale for £2 in lieu of a programme) and came across the following stage direction "Tyler leans in, kisses Stephen. He fellates Stephen." At which point we started to question our prior understanding of the meaning of this particularly word. It did mean what we thought it did!!!!!

Anyway back to the plot. Overall Stephen's struggles to come to terms with the plight of his disadvantaged neighbourhood is compounded by the September 11th tragedy, the superficial attitude of Tyler and the taunts of Tyler's college friend Billy (which hide his own underprivileged background.)

Meanwhile cleverly what seemed like a hopeless and loveless situation in the other apartment turns into a heartening human story.

Personally I found the plot intriguing and overall the cast were brilliant in their roles. Managing admirably to resume the performance after a major disturbance in Act 3 when a member of the audience got very abusive about his toilet rights and had to be physically manhandled from the auditorium by a security guard and another very brave audience member - after he held up the play for over 10 minutes.

If you're young or easily offended you may want to rethink going however because the writer sometime resorts to gratutious (IMHO) and extended sexual content to shock and ram home (sorry for the pun) his point.

But this is a very brave, interesting and compelling twist to Adam's career. Somehow I think typecasting this man is going to be virtually impossible.

To top off the evening we bumped in to the man himself who is on really good form - see picture above right. Told him that we enjoyed the show and that at least he got to keep his "Calvin's" on throughout (unlike other cast members!!!)