IT is the mark of engaging – and even bracing - theatre that for the audience time flies during the performance and in Tamara Harvey’s directorial fashioning of this well -loved David Hare social polemic it was fairly swift on the wing.

Hare is known for his ability to weave a tale that scrapes the surface off the niceties of life and here exposes the character frailties of the two protagonists Kyra Hollis, a teacher in a deprived area of London and Tom Sergeant, a rich businessman, who are "reviewing" their former love affair with volleys of recrimination and a casual physical revival.

This production is engrossing under Harvey’s incisive direction with Jay Villiers portraying the bluster and bluff of Sergeant’s somewhat wayward character in a lively fashion that fuses seamlessly with Jeanny Spark’s impassioned take on the socially aware Kyra Hollis who renounces what she regards as her paramour’s casual sophistry.

Both performers impart a reality and an ease of interpretation into the script that makes for an enjoyable, voyeuristic experience as the two verbally parry and prod each other’s inadequacies while their interaction is underpinned by the fleeting presence of Sergeant’s son Edward, a breezy showing by Oscar Batterham.

Jeanny Spark is perhaps best known for her role as Linda Wallander, the daughter of Kenneth Branagh’s angst-ridden detective in the BBC’s popular English language take on the bleak Scandinavian series but also has a string of other television and stage notches on her belt.

Villiers returns to Theatr Clwyd after a number of years and apart from numerous stage outings, the most recent being the Winslow Boy at the Old Vic in London , also appeared in the hit comic film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Stage designer James Perkins creates an impressive take on an inauspicious 1980s flat with "moving parts" – we see Kyra cooking a spaghetti dish on an oven that clearly works, and filling kettles with water.

This is a most acceptable interpretation of a play that is clearly set in another era but retains a resonant theme for today.

It is doubtful, though, if this latter day face-to-face confrontation between the two lovers might have taken place in this age of digital existence when they would surely would be haranguing each other by text and tweet.

Thank goodness, then, for Hare and Tamara Harvey who in only her third director’s outing at Theatr Clwyd has boosted its inventive catalogue of work.

Skylight runs at Theatr Clwyd, Emlyn Williams Theatre, Mold, until Saturday, March 4 - evenings at 7.30pm; matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm.

Box office: 01352 701 521

Online booking: www.theatrclwyd.com