Like a chronicle of a death foretold, Analogue's clever, haunting piece of multi-media theatre looks behind the headlines to create a show about fate that sends a shiver down your spine. Its inspired use of visuals creates a hypnotic quality, as if you are experiencing the entire thing as a movie or dream unfolding right inside your head.
Inspired by the story of Christophe Duclos, who in 2002 was pushed off the platform at Mile End station into the path of a oncoming train by Stephen Soans-Wade, Analogue offer up a tale of visions, delusions and nightmares in which the fates of the two men collide and shatter like a china mug.
Kate and Alex are an ordinary couple, close but in a relationship that is not entirely free of tensions. When Alex starts having nightmares about somebody being pushed under a train, Kate makes light of it. But as the nightmares become more frequent, Alex is convinced that he is predicting the future. When Kate buys a red scarf just like the one in his dream, Alex tries to keep her safe, blithely unaware he is condemning himself.
It is not so much the story itself as the way it is told that makes this so compelling. Time is not sequential and reality and unreality become blurred as Alex's dreams and the paranoid delusions of their neighbour Michael become entwined. It is like watching some terrible Greek tragedy unfold, leading inexorably to the moment when the two men's paths will cross. The masked figures of fate haunt the stage, a silent chorus who fill you with foreboding and have a practical function as stage hands too.
Everything about this well thought-out production, which melds visuals, music and animation together seamlessly, is slickly executed. It declares loudly that, fate willing, Analogue is a young company certain to make its mark on British theatre.
· Until August 27. Box office: 0131 556 6550.
