François, who is writing a screenplay, is in love with Sophie. His friend Robert had a brief affair with Lea, which resulted in a child. Lea is looking for Sophie, Sophie is looking for Mr Right and everyone is looking for love and a happy ever after to their own story.
Most romantic comedies don't quote literary critics. This one, however, quotes Georges Blanc on Stendhal and the Problem of the Novel: "In spite of having theoretically aligned himself with a programme of realistic tendencies, Stendhal fortunately never exposed the works of his imagination to its dangerous influence." You could say much the same about Evelyne de la Chenelière's light as a feather confection, which is full of rewinds, retakes and reinventions. It makes delightful use of the traditional rom-com formula to consider more thoughtful questions about the way we all fashion the narratives of our lives, the influence of romantic movie myths, the differences between lies and fiction, the self-consciousness that comes with casting yourself as the lead in your own biopic and how real life seldom lives up to the movies. As Sophie says about films: "The music always makes it better."
This is a very clever little show which operates on two levels: light and fluffy on the surface and hard as glass underneath. Rona Munro's translation and Roxanna Silbert's production understand that the real play here is not just in the delicious, cream puff dialogue but in the gaps between it, too.
· Until August 27. Box office: 0131-228 1404.
