There's a risk that staging a play about the Rochdale child sex rings could descend into voyeuristic rehashing of real-life horrors. Luckily, Phil Davies has, in his debut play, written a teenager called Tia who is three-dimensional; yes, she’s a victim, but there’s heart and humour here too. And in just-outta-drama-school Callie Cook, he’s found a young actress who can scorch through this harrowing material, while leaving us with just a smidgen of hope that Tia will rise again from the ashes.

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