Theatre Royal, New Road, Tuesday-Saturday May 4-8

Come and see this and you will see what makes the youth tick.

Basically a simple story of male bonding and loyalties, its subject is street basketball.

A fast-moving, all action game, the object might be to get the ball into the net but it's also important to do it with style.

Played to a rhythm of beats, speech, hip-hop and rap, the team are united by brotherhood not just for the game, but against the outside world, too.

Cory is the best streetball player on the estate, but he wants to leave his team, the Zeros and go legit with the A-List.

But when burning ambition takes over and he turns his back on his friends and family, his dreams threaten to destroy him.

With a sly wit and electric energy, the panache with which this is all carried out is nothing less than poetry - even if it doesn't delve great depths. No matter, you're made to care for these characters, who are embodied by a brilliant cast.

Brimming with energy, they're known to send their usually young audience into a frenzy that almost matches the players on stage.

The show is brought to Brighton by Nitro, Britain's oldest black theatre company, and is directed by Benji Reid, the renowned hip-hop dancer and choreographer.

The music is by wunderkind Soweto Kinch, who won the Montreux Jazz Festival World Saxophone Competition last year and has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and won a MOBO award.

In association with Theatre Royal, Brighton.

Tuesday May 4 to Saturday May 8. Starts at 7.45pm with 2.30pm mat on Thur and Sat, tickets £12-£21. Call 01273 709709.