HERE is a Little Review of series three of Little Plays About..., York thespian tutor Michael Lambourne's showcase for new vignettes, staged by his disparate acting charges in an hour of constantly shifting focus in the Theatre Royal Studio.

Two chairs, one table and a couple of boxes of props serve ten short pieces devised in the Adult Theatre Workshops and finessed by York playwright Hannah Davies and Lambourne into bite-sized dramas of wit, intrigue, shade and light, on the theme of whispers, loyalty and lies, more lies and alternative facts.

The involvement of Davies lifts the bar for Little Plays, the performers having consistently good writing to interpret in an evening with topical timing in its examination of the "flexibility of truth", trust and "the pressure placed on those seeking to do the right thing".

Adoption, racism, art theft, abuse in social care, the merits of vinyl versus digital, all life is here, brightly, briskly, breezily turned into comedy, tragedy and tragi-comedy.

All in all, this third instalment was a big step forward for Little Plays, for its plays and players alike.