Small isn't always beautiful. Sometimes it can be downright brutal - as it is in this puppet show set among circus folk in the 1950s. The miniature scale magnifies the hideous enormity of the passions in this sordid tale of lust, jealousy, betrayal and murder played out on a table top with tiny figures. It is not a pretty sight.
This is definitely not for children. It is hot, sweaty and exotic. It details all the tackiness of this underworld. A stripper pole-dances with the devil's pitchfork, masturbates with her own tail. The grotesque sits side by side with the tender. These tiny figures are so very frail and so very human.
Black Hole are an Australian company and they manipulate the little figures with great skill so that minute cigarettes are lit and smoked, and the tiniest of gestures take on great meaning. The storytelling is less well directed so that it takes too long for the narrative to grip. Sometimes the show feels as if it is all atmosphere and not quite enough content. It is fascinating, like peering at something nasty under a stone. You stare, but you feel little.
· Until August 30. Box office: 0131-558 3853
