SOUTHWARK Playhouse is definitely the place for striking, challenging new musicals at the moment. Following on the heels of Preludes, Dave Molloy’s Rachmaninov musical, is Islander, an award-winner at the Edinburgh Festival this summer.

The production binds up myth-making, music and technology to stunning effect and is performed with impressive precision by Bethany Tennick and Kirsty Findlay.

Using only their voices and two looping pedals, Tennick and Findlay tell the story of Eilidh, who lives on a remote Scottish island with her gran. Eilidh’s mother lives on the “big island” and, unwilling to keep subsidising a shrinking population, the government want everyone else to follow suit.