The Citizens Young Company does youth theatre with attitude. This second collaboration with Chicago's similarly styled Steppenwolf Cross-Town Ensemble sees actors from the Glasgow-based group perform seven short works penned by members of the Chicago team, overseen by a team of fledgling directors under the guidance of Citz Community Drama head Neil Packham.

As you might imagine, youthful preoccupations of love, sex, death, friendship and usually twisted family ties are much the same the world over, as is a healthy predilection for the gory. All plays in some way too concern that very American concept of closure, be it in the ghostly visitation of a teenage suicide victim in Erin Nederbo's This Charming Man, the abused young woman of Katie McCoy's A Lesson Learned or the best friends in Hope Rehak's Hang Up. The sibling rivalry of Dan Dvorkin's If We Were Green is equally angsty.

Light relief comes in It's All in The Box, Benton Reynolds's supernaturally tinged piece involving a music box's mysterious powers.

Majdi Badri gives an ancient piece of murderous apocrypha a 1950s twist in This Just In!, and Empty House by Geneva Redmond is a snapshot of small-town domestic bliss worthy of David Lynch. If some subjects are understandably predictable, they're written in tones of confident sophistication that all the performers latch on to.

Sensitive if occasionally conceptually overloaded direction from Packham, Natalie Ibu, Liam Hurley, George Docherty and Catrin Evans lends an even fresher sense of purpose to this well-packaged compendium.

Performed before an audience of friends and family, the swell of pride emanating from The Citz's Circle Studio space is tangible in the best kind of exchange project that hopefully remains ongoing.