SALT Factory, the new resident theatre company at Lighthouse, took an opening bow with this fascinating exploration of an obsessive but deeply flawed relationship.

Paradise is the latest work by award-winning Bournemouth playwright Nell Leyshon.

Working with director Becca Gill, she has used her long-time creative association with Vita Nova, the Boscombe-based theatre company for recovering addicts, as inspiration for this soul-searching tale.

Lee Hart and Celia Meiras play Jake and Sadie, former lovers washed up on the shore of a new life after turning their backs on a world of desperate obsessions, drugs and great personal loss.

They know that to survive they must go their separate ways and turn the tables, both literally and metaphorically, on what has been a period of dizzying highs and tragic lows.

With powerfully physical performances from Hart and Meiras, deeply knowing writing from Leyshon and slick direction from Gill, this is a fine debut from Salt Factory. From the carefully choreographed action to the lights and sound, it is a class work.

Paradise tours the south west and plays Salisbury Playhouse on November 11 and 12.