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This Might Not Be It review: Behind the Perspex partition - a sweetly hopeful look at the NHS's mental health care system, writes PATRICK MARMION

PATRICK MARMION: Sophia Chetin-Leuner's new play, This Might Not Be It, is regrettably timely. The action hinges on a double act of an old-lag receptionist and a young idealist.

Thanks to this week's depressing news of a deepening crisis in children's mental health care provision, Sophia Chetin-Leuner's new play, This Might Not Be It, is regrettably timely. It is, however, also a sweetly hopeful, broom cupboard-sized drama set the other side of the Perspex partition in a children and adolescent outpatient department. There are neat turns from Debra Baker's officious yet warm-hearted Angela, Denzel Baidoo's naive and bashful Jay, plus Dolly Webb as an all too familiar, vulnerable teenage girl.

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