Brilliantly staged, Sunny Afternoon charts the early years of Sixties’ chart-toppers The Kinks and proves a rip-roaring, feel-good trip down memory lane to a time when fashions were groovy and bands were loud and boisterous.

With a snappy, affectionate book by Joe Penhall and a score comprised of Ray Davies’ back catalogue of classics, the story of The Kinks straddles a period of change in the British music scene, a time when classes and cultures clashed and the post-war dancehall scene finally succumbed to the raw energy of pop and rock, as a new generation of working-class heroes emerged, eager to make their mark.

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At The Playhouse, until 9 May.