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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Maddy Costa

Emily's Kitchen

One of the pleasures of the Fringe is the chance it offers to track the progress of fledgling companies. Tangled Feet, a group of graduates from Middlesex University, emerged last year with Lost Property, a charming tale of misplaced belongings and drifting souls, delivered with rough-and-tumble energy and physical inventiveness. Unfortunately, its follow-up is less markedly acrobatic - and less enticing for it.

Emily is a lonely 27-year-old who relies on the cacophony of voices pouring from her five radios to drown out her nagging sense of disappointment in her life. One by one, her favourite DJs take her on adventures - up mountains, across seas, into churches and cabaret bars. But Emily eventually realises that if she's ever going to be happy she's going to have to emerge from her refuge and discover life for herself.

The narrative doesn't yet feel fully developed: it needs the DJs to change and grow as much as Emily, to stop it appearing quite so repetitive. There's also a gentleness about the characters that too often comes across as saccharine. The biggest problem, though, is that the bursts of choreography aren't sufficiently woven into the texture of the show not to feel imposed on its surface. Tangled Feet are still a company worth tracking - but this show is more of sideways step than a great leap forward.

· Until August 28. Box office: 0131-668 1633.

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