BED hopping, baring souls and big surprises are dished up in some style in this double bill of short, contemporary, adult dramas.

The intimacy of the theatre’s Studio provides the perfect stage for this public undressing of relationships in the two one-act plays.

Both share a similar set (a double bed) and the same two actors (Jack Ashton and Sarah Applewood) and there are connecting themes too, about power games, first impressions and love.

End of Desire is the funnier of the two, with Jack and Sarah cast as Irish thirty-somethings Dermot and Janet, defiantly (and brilliantly) battling with each other after a one-night stand. The upper hand switches between the two as they each reveal parts of their personalities.

Dermot wants to leave when he learns that Janet hates Channel 4 and loves ITV; Janet has bigger secrets to share, not least what she really looks like.

To reveal any more would be a massive spoiler; suffice to say, you should go and see this for yourself.

Playwright David Ireland is young and award-winning and exciting things are predicted for him. Judging by the writing in End of Desire, the acclaim and expectation is justified.

After the interval, Jack and Sarah return to the bedroom, this time as Simon and Alice for Matthew Pegg’s work, Escaping Alice.

What at first seems like a loving relationship quickly transpires into something else. When Simon goes to the bathroom, Alice frantically rummages in his belongings for a key to get out of the locked room.

She is surprisingly jolly as he works all manners of restraints to keep her from escaping, taunting him with her vivacious sex appeal.

It’s clear the relationship is over, but it is only as the play reaches its climax do we realise what went wrong.

Ashton and Applewood are superb in both plays, pulling off fairly convincing Belfast accents in End of Desire and seemingly effortlessly re-emerging as the London lovers in Escaping Alice.

Applewood is captivating as Alice, while Ashton plays the lovelorn Simon with a wide-eyed despair verging on the frantic.

Terrific theatre from a young and talented team.