Mindless F*****g stereotypes

The evening starts with the sound of a flushing toilet. Stuart is having a quiet night in, drinking beer and watching football but soon his life is going down the pan.

After he nods off in front of the TV, a family of asylum-seekers pitches up in the middle of the night and takes over Stuart's flat. They proceed to smoke his cigarettes, demand breakfast, steal his wallet, redecorate the living room, install their eight wives in the kitchen and sleep with his libidinous girlfriend. When a desperate Stuart leaves his flat to get help, it dawns on him that foreigners are running the country: resistance is futile.

Writer/director Victor Sobchak's lumbering, lazy satire attempts to be topical but it doesn't make any sense. Everyone here is equally repellent. Stuart is an apathetic, boring whinger and the asylumseekers are a sinister bunch.

The production is so muddled it's often hard to work out whether it's sending up stereotypes and racism or endorsing them. F*****g Asylum Seekers would be offensive if it wasn't completely mindless.

Until Apr 23, Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row WC1, Mon to Sat 7.30pm, £12, £10 concs, Mon pay what you can. Tel: 020 7269 1606. Tube: Holborn

F*****g Asylum Seekers