The playwright Eamonn Kelly has a retentive and acerbic ear, but it is an indication not so much of his talent as of our dire need for satire that his plays Parental Guidance and Religious Knowledge provide such pleasure. This Everyman Palace presentation excavates all the twin pieces can yield in terms of comic resonance. The touch is light but deft, the tone asserted by Patrick Murray's ramped set, composed of familiar school texts and overlooked by an unholy trinity of icons: Dana, de Valera and John Charles McQuaid.

The direction by Geoff Gould insists that the play is more than a cleverly extended skit; the truths beneath the flippancy are only veiled, not masked. A sexual education lesson which ranges helplessly from tadpoles to pears, Dana's triumph over the English rather than other competitors, the religious bewilderment of an entire generation whose greatest physical skill was dodging blows: these are the grist to Kelly's mill and he grinds them - well, rather large actually. His swipe is broad rather than pointed, but the performances, brilliantly led by David Peare's Christian Brother as a study of frantic asceticism, are sharply drawn.

For the writer this may be "work in progress" rather than a finished product, but acute timing, consistent costuming - again, the Brother's shabby cassock, shrouded in chalkdust is a shared retrieved memory -and a brisk pace shape an experience of a slight comedy which is more than just funny, although it is very funny.

Runs until Saturday September 5th.