It never fails to surprise me that people are happy to be entertained by so little.
This show, a hit in Edinburgh last year as well as this, is essentially a puppet show in which the puppets - many of them lifesize - lipsynch to popular music or jazz it up.
The pleasure is all in the expert manipulation rather than in the atmosphere, which is very much a child's idea of decadence - all pink smoke, sequins and high camp. There are almond-eyed divas and vampish man-eaters as well as Shirley Bassey in full throat.
It is fine, but once you've seen the company do one number, you've got the measure of them. And although the fleet-footed puppeteers clearly have talent, they are still in search of a real purpose to which to put it.
The show hails from Canada, which has produced one of the world's great puppeteers in Ronnie Burkett, a man who knows that the puppet is only half the story and that camping it up is fun, but not enough.
· Until Aug 28. Box office: 0131 668 1633
