The young companies attending MESH almost invariably produce a mission statement, probably dreamed up by an intellectually ambitious adult, that’s hard to live up to.

Sisak Theatre’s Drama Youth Studio and Young Daska, from Croatia, performed The Girl Who Hates to be Late. Made over the course of a year, it purports to look at violence in relationships.

In what turns out to be a very entertaining and mostly funny piece, this theme is only fleetingly present.

The bulk of the work consists of auditions for a contemporary school performance of Romeo and Juliet. One girl thinks she will be a Hollywood star; another is petrified and breaks down.

An ambitious girl talks of her fear: fear of being late, of arriving early, of phone calls in the night, of living too long, of death. And it’s her precise timing that allows a murderer, on film, to anticipate her arrival and shoot her. There are some quality performances, and the young cast perform in excellent English.

According to Dutch legend. Witte Wieven (White Women) appeared as mists in the fields and captured lonely travellers. The dancers (pictured) are from Leiden in The Netherlands. We are told that they and the audience “will be confronted with the dilemma of adapting to the rules of society, or breaking out without caring about what’s right and wrong”.

This piece uses filmed backdrops of the ten wieven, dressed in white Grecian shifts, spookily moving around in a flat landscape. On stage they first appear as a surprisingly jolly lot, but seriousness descends as an 11th girl crosses the stage in a pink mini-dress and high heels.

Is she a traveller? A rule-breaker? She disappears, and the cast now express anxiety and tension, clutching their heads, rocking to and fro, shouting and whirling in anger. The pink glamour-puss returns, dressed in white, and one of the wieven is clearly obsessed with her, but held away by her companions. This is a well danced but inscrutable work.