What Of It?, written by Rebecca Fingher and starring Fingher, Anna Lindstedt and Courts Cava, is a challenging black comedy/drama about three feral chavettes who've heard that the world may be ending in three days and aren't sure whether to be skeptical, scared, pleased, or merely apathetic. Details of the impending apocalypse are vague, and two of the girls consider sneaking into the bunker that a neighbour is building, but the leader derides this. More important, in her assessment, is that the newest recruit to the trio not die a virgin, and that none of them die with a bad hairstyle or in the wrong shoes. When she sees a woman wearing shoes that she wanted but was unable to afford, she bullies the new girl into mugging her for her footwear. This leads to dissension in the group, which the remaining days may not be long enough to heal.

As someone largely unfamiliar with chav culture, I found it difficult to be sure to what degree the play was intended as a gender-swapping parody of chavs rather than a sympathetic look at the lives of three young dropouts with "big clit energy" but so little ambition or hope for the future that they could get through their bucket lists in three days without leaving town.

The staging is minimalist, apart from occasional bursts of obscuring stage smoke so thick that I was tempted to reach for my inhaler, my facemask and possibly a machete. If you dislike rap, I'd suggest you arrive at the theatre exactly on time rather than endure several minutes of it played as the overture. Quibbles aside, the performances, including dance numbers, are excellent, and there are some genuinely funny lines delivered brilliantly.

It's currently showing at the State Theatre for – you guessed it - three days.