"Whatever" or "Like, uh, forget it" could easily have been one's response to a two-hander depicting the volatile, on-off relationship between a self-centred, druggy slacker and her scrawny, guitar-playing boyfriend. But in the hands of writer/actor Madi Distefano, who performs both roles, this show zips along and turns into something more than a jagged snapshot of the 1980s grunge scene.
When Jeremy fails to come home one night, Dido starts screwing around. At work, where she usually spends the day catnapping under her desk, she picks up a guy and steals his wallet, then embarks on a crystal-meth spree. Jeremy, meanwhile, is gearing up to perform a set with his band, whose songs include the charmingly titled number, Caesarean.
You can practically smell Dido's armpits and the packets of Doritos in Distefano's show. The writing, which is very much in the tradition of Conor McPherson, has energy and a deadpan, sarcastic sense of humour. Distefano does not romanticise the couple's messy lives, allowing us glimpses beneath their apparent anomie and general obnoxiousness. By the end, you really hope that Dido and Jeremy won't trash their lives, while seeing just how easily they could.
· Until August 27. Box office: 0131-623 3030.
