Images explores urban isolation through spoken word, dance, circus and some projection. It’s billed as a promenade performance, so is perhaps wrong for the space at C eca, because all this seems to mean is that some of the audience have chairs while others sit on the floor.

The text, by Jake Linzey of Backhand Theatre, was often trite. Its metaphorical summit was commuters being squeezed into trains like toothpaste, and the lines included, ‘It’s a fascinating thing, kissing.’ Even more perplexing was the idea of ‘soaking in the saturation of the rain’.

The two young performers, Katy Helps and Megan Elizabeth Pitt, have grace and poise. However, the movement is more tantalising than satisfying. The trapeze and dance moves were carefully executed, but rather limited. The performers did make a valiant effort with the narrative too. It therefore seems odd that they are not credited on any programme, website or other information.

The theme of emptiness in a mediated, empty London had potential. You could agree with the final question about what it takes to get people together in a room, and perhaps with the blatant longing for touch, skin, kisses, warmth and smell. The relationship between the two women was also slightly intriguing – were they sisters, childhood friends, even lovers?

However, the weaknesses of the writing made Images a limp experience for me. To a soundtrack including Moby, it became cloying. That said, the show did seem to resonate with a full, young audience. It is one of several productions by Backhand Theatre, so perhaps part of a wider experiment.