Taking as your source material The Flight of the Cassowary, a book that playwright Douglas Maxwell calls the ultimate adolescent novel - infinitely better than Salinger's  Catcher in the Rye, lays a big expectation on his play, Mancub . An expectation that is delivered and surpassed in little more than an hour at Edinburgh 's Traverse Theatre.

The action follows Paul, (Paul J Corrigan) a high school student coming to terms with himself as an adult, preferring to escape into the security of pretending he is an animal that helps him cope with every situation, a rhino, an eagle, lion. Each animal for each situation. Unfortunately for him he starts believing he is actually each animal both mentally and physically culminating in his ability to fly away from the school full of people who don't understand him.

Anyone who has been through the trials and tribulations of being an adolescent must appreciate the pure escapism of this piece; every character is played to perfection by Sandy Grierson and Claire Lamont; from the cool girl at school to the next door neighbour's dog with fantastic physical and vocal dexterity.

Maxwell has definitely found form with this script which has everyone who has ever been told off by a parent rolling in the isles with laughter. Yet it still has time to make a valid point about the adolescent growing up making a beautiful and eloquent point underpinned by a fantastic soundtrack full of spatial, awkward yet emotional music, highlighting the feelings that every teenage goes through at some stage in their lives.