So, for the sixth consecutive year, I once again returned to see the University of Northampton BA Actors perform their final dissertation pieces in the Flash Festival before they embark off into the big wide and scary world of acting. My opening performance and the first of the week was Pop Theatre's Confiding In Frank , a witty, slightly emotional offering featuring Charlie Mackenzie and Melissa Knott, with more than a little help from Elliot Murray. Gary is a nerd of the ultimate level, and we meet him having a lightsaber battle with an unseen opponent. A physical battle so much so, that said lightsaber gives up the ghost during the scene. It's the start of a brilliant, if at times over the top caricature of prize nerd material, complete with constant adjustment of spectacles, and overly awkward movement. This awkwardness escalates to new levels when attractive new house-sharer Chloe arrives, innocently bringing with her a goldfish that is going to oddly, very oddly, c...