Potty-mouthed sock puppeteer packs a punch

IN the 19th century, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde rocked the Victorian world; and since then there have been many variations of stories and characters based on the idea of split personalities and alter egos.

Robert Askins' Hand to God is a story along the same lines - but this time, the alter ego of a teenaged boy is a hand puppet. It offered up, in about 90 minutes, a snapshot of the inner world of a t…