Nigel Williams' 'My Face', performed and produced by student troupe Gorilla Suit, is a light comedy about a fictional social networking site and the adolescents addicted to it. It follows Suzie's preparations for an actual party, to which she has invited all six of her My Face friends and at which she hopes to meet Dave. Dave, sadly, isn't a real person, but a Youth-in-Revolt-style cool fictional cousin created by her creepy admirer Mark Finkelkraut.Writer Nigel Williams may well have won a BAFTA and an Emmy, but much of this script is too derivative and inane to transcend the strictures of the 'school-leavers-on-tour' label. I was hoping 'My Face' would be a sassy, satirical teen comedy in the style of 'Election', 'Mean Girls' or 'Clueless', but the humour is facile (the jokes about Jewish stereotypes particularly so), the plot is desperately predictable and the characters are rooted in caricature. The latter is fine if you do something with it (as 'Mean Girls' did brilliantly), but this doesn't.What a shame, as this is rather a fun group of young actors who obviously have a bit of a following (the theatre was pretty much full). I particularly liked James Skinner as the Wolves-supporting Pete, whose spotless nice-guy reputation is sullied by his admission to hacking in to Mark's account. Oh, and at one point, a gorilla turns up. Wacky, or what? Harmless, puerile, forgettable fun.
