When two young men are driving along the highway one evening, they are flagged down by a cop and anxiety soon turns to paranoia.
Before long they have dug themselves into a hole and are starting to bury themselves up to their necks in it. The same cop turns up a little while later at a motel where it seems that an abducted young woman is just about to be raped by a violent black man. But can you always believe what you see, or is it dictated by stereotypes and prejudices? Perhaps it is harder to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys than we think? Perhaps we simply assume too much about the person wearing the uniform and the person wearing the handcuffs. Perhaps we acquiesce to a little brief authority too readily.
Logan Brown and Matthew Benjamin's clever, slippery little drama has already been a hit on the New York fringe and deserves to be a hit here too with its intelligent examination of guilt, innocence, and all shades of grey in between.
It is at least 15 minutes too long, and inclined to repeat itself, but this niftily acted play gives several new twists to the traditional cops-and-robbers saga and it will appeal to anyone who has ever had the urge to confess to a crime they haven't committed or who starts feeling guilty as hell when ever they walk past a policeman.
· Until August 30. Box office: 0131-556 6550.
