One eighteen-year-old is about to become a father, another is running away from his family home and a couple are having a lovers’ tiff over a karaoke version of ‘You’re all that matters to 2015BIRTHSE_PCme’. There’s nothing particularly special about any of them, and yet that’s where the raw beauty of Births Deaths and Marriages lies.

The characters of Births, Deaths and Marriages are not only grappling with each other, they’re also on the threshold of adulthood and are grappling with the self-questioning that hits every young adult in the twenty-first century: questions of where to be, what to be and who to be (or who not to be).

I’m struggling to fault this production. Tom Chamberlain, Gemma Raw, Sam Rhodes and Jack Tricker commit to all parts 100%, and everything from their comic timing to their emotion is visceral and real. It’s unusual to see such honest, raw acting, whether it is playing one of the four main characters or multi-role-ing as one of the minor characters. The best example of this has to come where the runaway boy stands on the platform edge and internally invents the lives of commuters – a boredom exercise that we’ve all no doubt engaged in – and the cast act this out.

What’s also refreshing is how People You May Know waste no time with unnecessary sets or flashy props. A bench, two mics and a large screen for projection adorn the stage. Yes, projection can be fussy and distracting, but here it only adds to an already multi-faceted production. With a video clip of a semi detached house or an abandoned train station, we need no other set to evoke the bland familiarity of the everyday. Layering this normality with the raw dialogue and an emotionally charged plot, Births, Deaths and Marriages becomes something truly beautiful.

By the end, the perfect balance is struck between what we have been told and what we still want to know. Any criticism I could offer would be entirely self indulgent, and that is simply that I want more. I become so emotionally invested in all four characters and their lives that I am dying to know what is yet to happen – and whether they learn from their mistakes. Births Deaths and Marriages is absolutely stunning in its raw humanity, and unmissable if you’re at the Fringe.

Births, Deaths and Marriages is playing at Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) until August 31. For more information, visit the Fringe website.