Disney spent £10m on staging The Lion King. This piece from Dodgy Clutch, a collaboration between a north-east based British company and South African theatre artists, has a couple of life-size elephant body puppets that are just as effective, and probably cost a couple of hundred quid.
This tale of a man who dies and is refused entrance to heaven until he re-examines his life is very much poor theatre, but it makes a virtue of its lack of resources and has an appealing exuberance and simplicity.
On the downside the storytelling is not always as clear as it might be and the space is not particularly sympathetic. The show would work much better outside. But the singing and dancing are not enormous fun, and it fuses different styles rather well, particularly in the interventions of a bird-like figure who I took to be an angel. There is a lovely moment when the devil just blows her away.
More of this kind of detail would give the show more depth, but it is a feel-good 80 minutes that has rhythm and soul.
· Until Aug 28. Box office: 0131 662 8740
