Theatre night:By Their Fruits.

Man, the audience at Theatre503 were getting into it last night. A mostly young and black crowd roared with laughter, shouted instructions to the performers, and chatted amongst themselves during the minimal yet expansive By Their Fruits (written and directed by the 'interdisciplinary' artist dkfash). Strangely, none of this detracted from my enjoyment of the play which, for me, was good. If not quite as great as some of my fellow theatre goers seemed to think.

I say 'play' but perhaps the word 'interdisciplinary' is a bigger clue as to what's going on down in Battersea. By Their Fruits IS a play, primarily, but it also incorporates dance, sound, and light to make for quite an astonishing visual spectacle. The two performers, Ivan Oyik and Reba Ayi-Sobsa, are hugely impressive. Both in getting emotion across and in their movement. The fact they both look amazing helps too when you're watching them for nearly two hours.

Him and Her (they're not given names) are a married couple who met when his mum had an affair with her dad. Sometimes they're happily married (not least when she offers to sit on his face) and sometimes they're unhappily married (when one of them comes home late or seems to be showing more interest in fellow workers) and these shifts can often take place in less than a second.

He leans in to her for what seems like a guaranteed kiss only to be spurned, and heavily critiqued, at the last moment. She speaks in poetry that would probably be very annoying in real life but works in the theatrical context, he's a little more prosaic but still turns a fair few decent lines. The audience, however, provided the best line of the night. When a very vigorous and passionate sexual workout (performed in the style of interpretative dance, naturally) came to an end a woman in the row behind me shouted out, to much amusement, a simple instruction:- "continue".

Oh, how we laughed. But there were funny lines in By Their Fruits too - as well as moving ones as the production tackled heavy themes of gender balance, abortion, mental health, and control. My only criticism is that I felt a little removed, lacking emotional investment, with a drama that probably should have had me leaning much deeper into it. The rest of the crowd didn't have that problem whereas I enjoyed By Their Fruits but had reservations. Much like the sometimes loving, sometimes sparring couple on stage had about each other. Continue.