With each new generation come new influences: From Harry Potter to Wonka's Oompa Loompa's and from Hit Me Baby One More Time to Suicide Chatrooms. A whole new world has been opened up, teenage angst still breeds and broods in the bedroom, but the bedroom has become the home to a world wide portal of communication where anxieties and depressions can be elevated, manipulated or dissolved.

Slaughter is an act of heroism , recordings spoken as a full house takes their seats at the Traverse to watch Enda Walsh's Chatroom , brought to life by the award winning Lyceum Youth Theatre. As a new generation steps into the limelight on the world stage, angry and ready to demonstrate against the injustices of the world. The restless savagely manipulate on the weak, in the name of valour.

Jim (Steven Croall) is depressed, possibly suicidal but most of all lonely. As he surfs from room to room he finds a group of fellow Edinburghers, truly interested in his situation. Here he meets William (Shaun Qureshi) and Eva (Gillian Taylor), two conniving peers who make a game of Jim's life, twisting his words and showing him the way, how to be a true hero to the generation of Pop Idols – to sacrifice his life for the “cause”. Jack (Sam Cunningham) and Emily (Catriona Robertson) are also caught up in the game that they don't want to understand either end, appealing to the voice of reason and experience, Laura (Rachel Jackson), when the intentions of William and Eva become clear.

This is an issues play, but one cannot help but be impressed with the subtlety and skill with which Walsh approaches this subject matter, having created an entertaining and un-preachy piece of theatre that is as skilful as it is life affirming.

Xana MacLean's adept direction instils an atmosphere of isolation for the six chatters, sat alone in their respective rooms, while including excellent interruptions, using sound, lighting and movement, preventing the piece from becoming static. Music Performers Sarah Bothwick and Rhea Lewis provide the affecting soundtrack, an excellent mix of Oompa Loompas and slow motion dance tracks, adding pace in parts, and distress in others.

MacLean laid down the gauntlet to this group of young actors and this solid cast have bravely accepted the challenge providing sensitive and brutally convincing performances from all six.

LYT's Chatroom is an energised, youthful production that tackles this most sensitive of issues, tenderly performed. This is exciting, engaging Youth Theatre at its very best.