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Davey Anderson's The Static is a Scottish element of the 2013 Celtic Festival, currently being hosted at Mold's Clwyd Theatr Cymru, and although it will mainly appeal to teenage audiences, it will also strike a chord with practically anybody who's ever been a teenager.
Sparky is a volatile but bright 15-year-old on the brink of permanent exclusion from his school. Then one day he falls under the spell of a seemingly psychic girl called Siouxsie and develops his own kinetic superpower.
This might all sound like a theatrical version of Channel 4's Misfits, but what it's really about is the turbulence of being a hormonal teenager. It transpires that Sparky and Siouxsie's kinetic powers (all they need do is think something, and it happens) only thrive between the moment their puberty begins, and the moment they lose their VL (virgin lips).
