#MyWay @ Pleasance Dome

Youth theatre group Young Pleasance drag the Edinburgh Fringe forcefully into 2014 with #MyWay, their play on heartbreak and social media. Because of its subject matter and its 30 strong cast, the piece feels somewhat like a school play on steroids – if they're the sort of steroids that increase acting skills and inspire innovative production, that is.

The show is at its best when it leaves the realm of young adults' social difficulties and unsurprising – though well executed – characters (such as the sensitive musician and a malignant arch nemesis plus his oafish friends), and instead ventures into the allegorical. Something as mundane as running a Facebook search for the girl one has taken a fancy to turns into a stage-filling choreography of human algorithms and a friendly, American-accented user interface physically wheeling out potential matches for the desired girl's first name.

Cleverly used sounds and projections are essential to the play's online feel, but its real strength is in the gusto with which the actors portray even the smallest parts. The actor playing a library dwelling geek turned World of Warcraft soothsayer is on stage for no more than five minutes, but her facial contortions should be remembered as one of this year's Fringe highlights.

The performers of Young Pleasance deserve bigger themes and a bigger stage, and not just because they barely fit on to the one in the King Dome.