The Audience of Blue/Orange leaves the Greenwich Theatre in great high spirits, laughing and smiling as if they’ve seen a brilliant farce. And the piece might be: “Shrinks Behaving Badly”Because they do. Department Head Dr Smith (John Michie) is an affable charmer who thinks nothing of breaking ward rules on cigarettes and coffee if it relaxes patients and helps bond them to him.

He attempts to bond with ambitious Junior Doctor Rubina (Rhianne Barreto) by flattering her as “a woman not afraid to tackle a soufflé with promises of mentoring her right up to Consultant level. In return for… another Sunday dinner?

So far so collegiate until… they disagree about Patient Christopher (Matthew Morrison). The young man is clearly disturbed. But why? And how badly? And what should they do? Detain him in the hope of more effective treatment as Dr Ruby wants? Or discharge him back home to Shepherds Bush to free up a bed for Dr Smith’s busy ward?

Both have their own agenda. And soon these two professionals are clashing at a very basic level. But how can you have a conversation, a discussion, a debate, let alone a dispute, if you don’t share agreement about the very terms you’re using? Of course you can. But it’s going to get very noisy and very nasty. And for these two Psychiatrists it does, turning into an ugly power struggle in front of the man they’re supposed to help.