If you wanted to discover the truth about something, what would you do? Start by asking questions? After all, that's what the police do when they are solving a crime, what market researchers do when they are trying to discover our preferences for soap powder, and what we all do when we want to find out who ate the last biscuit or when we are playing games of Murder or Mafia. Ask the right question, and we are confident that we will be able to get to the truth.
You won't be quite as confident after seeing this clever little show from Stan's Cafe. In Good and True, two men and a woman are in an investigation room, apparently questioning another woman about her alibi. As the questioning continues, it becomes apparent that truth is slippery and mutable. It depends entirely on how the question is framed. Soon fictions re-emerge as facts, lies become truths and the interrogators and the interrogated swap places. It is the questions themselves that shape the narratives.
It is an interesting idea although not an original one. The intriguing thing about this piece is the way it is done. There is no story and yet, through the barrage of questions, narratives begin to emerge. Who are these people? Bent coppers? Middle managers on some bizarre team-building exercise? The members of some MI5-style investigation?
The sinister and the absurd sit cheek by jowl and there is something unsettling about a piece that suggests that however hard you try, the truth is unknowable and the world a meaningless place. It is fun but it is also far too long. After 45 minutes I wanted to ask my own question: "Can I go home now?"
· Until March 6. Box office: 08700 500 511.
