In the New South Africa everyone is busy trying out new identities and images, particularly the marketing people, who want to "attract the warm rays of investment to chase the clouds away" from the Rainbow Nation. But old attitudes die hard in this nifty little satire by Greig Coetzee, particularly when a young black actor, whose father had been a freedom fighter, moves into a predominantly white Durban suburb called Woodlands. Before he has even stepped inside the house his neighbour is waving a gun under his nose, unable to believe that a black man could have bought the property.
Coetzee pokes a sharp finger in almost every direction, whether it is at the myths of heroes and liberation, mouthpiece liberalism or simply the lies of the marketing people who see money to be made from selling a South Africa that owes everything to Disney and The Lion King and nothing to reality.
Coetzee and James Ngcobo make it fun for us and for themselves, swapping roles to play a range of characters who represent the spectrum of experience and opinion. Coetzee metes out especially savage treatment to Sinead, the marketing company boss who is learning Zulu as a business opportunity and waxes lyrical about African sushi.
· Until August 26. Box office: 0131-226 2428.
