Two Parisian graffiti writers have found a clever way to sidestep the illegal nature of their art - they've gone digital. Who needs a spray can when you've got a laptop? The live electronic scribbles of Valentin Bechade and Popay Ayguavives form the backdrop to Renegade Theatre's Streetlife, and it's the highlight of the show.
Whereas Renegade's last hit show, Rumble, took Shakespeare to street level with a hip-hop version of Romeo and Juliet, this one tries a more freeform approach. It's an urban setting that could be inner-city London or the Paris suburbs, populated by hobos, hookers and thieves. Luckily, they're saved from cliche by the city landscape coming alive behind them. The graffiti artists use the set as their blank walls, and cursors fly across the stage. The squiggling of cigarette smoke, the heat of a dancer's body branded into the wall in glowing colours, the dark night scrubbed away to become morning - they all appear and disappear as quickly as you can cut and paste.
Renegade's notion is that real street life has been sanitised thanks to skate parks, youth clubs and hip graffiti galleries, and Streetlife is most fun when they show us how vibrant life in the city could be if we were able to let our energy loose outside of designated spaces. So the queue for a bus turns into a salsa workout, a guy throws out some power moves while taking a call, another body-pops his way into work.
There's plenty of imagination and comedy, but it takes a serious turn when the rose-tinted urban groove gives way to images of riot shields and decaying concrete - only there's not enough narrative substance to make an impact. We're missing a story here.
Renegade's performers are good: they do great set pieces and spontaneous laughs. But it's got to be disappointing when you're upstaged by the set.
· Until August 28. Box office: 0131-558 3853.
