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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lyn Gardner

A Mobile Thriller

Mobile Thriller, Edinburgh festival 04
Photo: Murdo MacLeod

The car glides to a stop outside an office block. A man slings his briefcase in the back, orders the driver to head across the Meadows to the ring road, and starts dictating into a tape recorder. As the car eats up the miles, the man pours out his feelings to an absent lover, stopping only to take calls from his wife, friend and the man he is off to meet.

The audience capacity - three people, in a show that takes place in the back of an Audi cruising Edinburgh's streets - means the play sold out before the festival began. Don't worry: you are not missing the unmissable. It is clever, and being cocooned in a moving car while the story unfolds and darkness falls, ensure it is a memorable, even creepy experience.

Hush Productions have taken care over the details. They use the environment to create a total world. Leaving the car afterwards, you're slightly disoriented, as if waking from a dream. But the script lacks sharpness, and the plot is predictable. Full marks, though, to the company, who execute things brilliantly.

· Until August 28. Box office: 0131-228 1404.

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