It's the marketing slogan from hell: a sketch comedy about loss and grief! But it's a show from Fringe heaven, performed by two skilful young Americans, Adrian Wenner and Ethan Sandler.
The sketches interweave to form a comic playlet about two friends coping with the loss of the women they both secretly loved. Cory uses Georgia's death as a spur to stop smoking, and we meet his doctor, the doctor's pharmaceutical rep and several executives of the pharma corporation, brainstorming drug names. Meanwhile, in a scene that beautifully balances dark comedy and pathos, Warren makes love to Georgia using spliced excerpts from her answer-phone messages.
There's no set or props; just the two performers in white shirts, flitting between characters with dexterity and sometimes dazzling fluidity as the show hits its stride. The writing's excellent too: offbeat and (usually) understated. "How you doing?" Warren asks the nerd who shares his office. "Nothing," comes the reply. Then: "Wait. Did you say how you doing or what's going on?" But there's nothing hollow about Wenner and Sandler's wit. In exploring the reverberations of an untimely death, their show pairs considerable comic skill to real depth of feeling. Georgia may be dead - but an intriguing new comic-theatre double act is born.
· Until August 30. Box office: 0131-668 1633.
