Most theatrical productions aim to take you on a journey.

The company performing Transit called this offering “stunningly visual physical theatre”. I wouldn’t go quite as far as giving it that description. To do so evokes outstanding, mind-blowing athleticism pushing humans to their limits.

What we have here is a peculiar blend of drama, comedy and dance which is generally lively and engaging. But then that doesn’t have the same impact.

Don’t be deceived, though, because it does take the audience from the corridors of warm amusement to the pits of despair, documenting the story of Samantha Applebee, who watches her family disappear around her before tracing the footsteps of her sister in an adventure of ups and downs around Europe.

The piece is not time-specific but had a pre-war feel to it, enhanced by the plain articles each character wore as they hurried about the stage with a retro suitcase in hand.

These suitcases worked on a practical and symbolic level – as props and representations of the characters’ surroundings in the first sense and as a reminder that this piece ultimately captures individual journeys (both short and long) in the second sense.

By the time it was over, it felt worth the ride.